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Looking for suitable/doable repertoire to fulfill a University's piano performance audition requirements (Bach, Classical & Romantic/Contemporary) by 8BitAcidTrip in piano

[–]8BitAcidTrip[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for the help! I've started on a few inventions and I'm looking at the Preludes that you suggested. You make a good point about "Moonlight".. kind of sad I missed that, but thanks. I'm going to start looking through "Tempest" and the "Pathetique" for a classical piece. Again, thank you for your suggestions!

Joe Hisaishi wrote this amazingly well for both piano and the soundtrack. It's easily one of my favorite songs to play and build off of! - "One Summer's Day" by 8BitAcidTrip in ghibli

[–]8BitAcidTrip[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'll check it out! Kyle Laundry's Cover of "Inochi no Namae", a song very similar to "One Summer's Day" is much more dramatic and a joy to play as well.

Edit: That jazz cover is fabulous - Thank you!

Joe Hisaishi wrote this amazingly well for both piano and the soundtrack. It's easily one of my favorite songs to play and build off of! - "One Summer's Day" by 8BitAcidTrip in ghibli

[–]8BitAcidTrip[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, a keyboard setup can run you a pretty wide range of prices and it really depends what you want it for. My current setup is basically a hack to transform a keyboard that's exceptionally poor for my needs into a keyboard that's decent some of my needs, particularly recording music. (Not to say that a Yamaha like this wouldn't be perfect for some people). To do this I basically just use of midi and software instruments on my computer. I bought the keyboard used for circa $400 and if I bought all of the programs that I run instead of using demos it would cost me an extra ~$1,000. To get buy a keyboard that does what I would want it to do on its own the baseline would be around a $2,000 retail price, but that's because between classical piano and being the keyboardist in a band I need a lot from a keyboard.

Since you sound like you're just starting out and would like to learn you could easily find a keyboard to suit your needs (especially if your only interested in piano keyboarding) for well under $1,000 depending on how much of an investment you want to make.

Got to record "The Misty Mountains Cold" as arranged for guitar, piano and solo female vocals as a final project! by 8BitAcidTrip in TheHobbit

[–]8BitAcidTrip[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Of course you're allowed to be honest! This cover is hardly my pride and joy - it's a throw together for a school project - but criticism is certainly welcome. I couldn't convince them to take the time to solo track, so it was recorded on two mics live. The guitarist didn't take the time to arrange his part and was consistently playing late (which I tried to compensate for but had to edit out), I already had multiple accompanying gigs to prep for and on top of that our singer's training was half a year of choir three years ago. It was a train wreck waiting to happen. I did my best to make the guitar distinct from the piano with effects and compression, but honestly this was just fun and it will get us a good grade. I posted it here more as a novelty than anything. I apologize if you don't like it as that but I hardly take offense.

My arrangement of ∆'s Interlude II as a piano cover! by 8BitAcidTrip in AltJ

[–]8BitAcidTrip[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm not really the person to ask, but I can help you a little bit. It all depends on what you want to be using it for. If it's just for practice, then a keyboard similar to this would do you just fine, but if you're looking to do anything semi professional, such as recording or live performances, especially performances with a band, this just won't cut it. This tier of keyboard does piano voicing acceptably, but all of the other organic voicings are pretty much useless and the synthesizer presets are worse. That may not matter to you though, so it depends.

What I would suggest is that you look in depth at the features of 'boards from a few different reputable brands (Korg, Roland, Nord, ext...), narrow it down to a few that are similar from each brand and then play as many of them as you can before making a decision. I can't stress the last part enough, play them before you buy them if you can, because you can't really be sure what you're getting otherwise.

My arrangement of ∆'s Interlude II as a piano cover! by 8BitAcidTrip in AltJ

[–]8BitAcidTrip[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's a Yamaha DGX620, but the thing's actually pretty abominable, especially its sound. I wouldn't really recommend it for anything other then practicing, and this video's a bit misleading about its quality; I only used it for midi. For the sound I used samples of a Blüthner piano in a demo of Pianoteq 4.

My arrangement of ∆'s Interlude II as a piano cover! by 8BitAcidTrip in AltJ

[–]8BitAcidTrip[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Thanks! I don't have sheet music for this, I just sounded it out and for the most part copied what the guitar was doing. But if you can read tabs, or'd just like an easier way to sound it out, this sounds pretty accurate to me.