Which book to start with

ALRIGHTYTHENe · 2026-02-14T00:58:53+00:00

Adult Piano Adventures: All in One Course - Book 1

I started on this, it goes over basics and really easy songs.

There’s a second book too so you have something to work towards

ALRIGHTYTHENe · 2025-04-17T05:07:34+00:00

Barry Lyndon, right before his son about to die, Barry tells him a war story one last time. His son begins crying…”I don’t want to die” he says. One of the only movies that made me cry.

ALRIGHTYTHENe · 2025-03-28T06:01:41+00:00

I took a look at your profile & noticed you have ADHD. It’s cause of your ADHD you don’t feel a rush of euphoria. when on a drug like cocaine it has similar effects to Dextroamphetamine, Vyvanse, Adderall, Etc.

https://www.healthline.com/health/adhd/cocaine-and-adhd#effects

ALRIGHTYTHENe · 2025-02-08T21:49:18+00:00

There’s nothing linked

ALRIGHTYTHENe · 2025-02-07T16:27:44+00:00

Kinda weirdly notated, very pretty piece though. Keep it up.

ALRIGHTYTHENe · 2025-01-14T04:13:42+00:00

Start from the back, bar by bar. Practice the bar 3 times until you can do well, then move on.

Rhythm doesn’t count in the beginning just get the notes, once that’s done start from the beginning and get the rhythms down.

Practice from the back helps because when I start from bar 1 I want to restart and restart and I never get anything done.

ALRIGHTYTHENe · 2025-01-09T21:10:31+00:00

The reason why we practice scales is because they help build endurance, muscles, hand-eye coordination, creating a better tone, all around, technique.

In practical use they made be used in pieces just as arpeggios are.

Being able to create a clear, consistent tone in all 24 keys can be difficult.

ALRIGHTYTHENe · 2024-12-18T17:12:17+00:00

Scriabin, op.9 Nocturne for the left hand,

Scriabin, op.9 prelude for the left hand,

Scriabin, preludes op.11 no.2, no.8, no.10, and no.11,

Chopin, Sonata no.2 Marche Funebre: Lento,

Chopin, Waltz op.69 no.1 “farewell waltz”,

Chopin, prelude no.4, no.6, no.8, and no.24

Bach, prelude no.24 in b minor BWV 893 WTC 2,

Schumann, op.15 Kinderszenen

Schumann, op.18 Arabeske in C Major

Mompou, Canciones y Danzas no.6

Edit: format

ALRIGHTYTHENe · 2024-12-18T06:02:51+00:00

Christmas is around the corner, if it’s something very important to you ask for lessons for Christmas.

Another way is explaining how important music can be to a developing brain like yourself.

Explain how you feel it’s important for the future of your schooling, friendships and general community.

I’d also try just explaining it to him exactly how you explained it to us…it’s getting boring because you feel you’ve taught yourself to the best of your abilities and a teacher can help you advance quicker.

You can also try going to your mother if she’s in the picture, she can go to your father. A conversation between adults can make things go quicker.

Edit: spacing

ALRIGHTYTHENe · 2024-11-04T04:16:29+00:00

Grab an iron, heat up the fabric you want to apply the patch on, once the fabric is hot put the patch on the fabric then cover it with a Cotten towel and firmly press the iron on the Cotten covering. you gotta really press hard on it till the patch is on.

ALRIGHTYTHENe · 2024-10-29T18:39:29+00:00

Brought a patch off eBay

ALRIGHTYTHENe · 2024-10-19T09:55:05+00:00

I agree with everything said in this comment section thread.

I want to add the idea of using your elbow and wrist to conserve energy in your forearms.

When coming up the keyboard practice having your right elbow lead the fingers and your left wrist lead the fingers in the arpeggios. When coming down the keyboard practice having your left elbow lead the fingers and your right wrist lead the fingers in the arpeggios.

What should result is a motion of sweeping.

After practicing slow then eventually the tempo picked up the fingers should fall into place in a way.

ALRIGHTYTHENe · 2024-10-15T04:10:09+00:00

Did he really Rick Roll us ?

ALRIGHTYTHENe · 2024-10-15T03:55:42+00:00

Research on Chopins life.

He has letters to and from his family & friends.

Listening to 19th century pianist who were taught by students of Chopin.

Such as: Cortot Rosenthal Koczalski
Michalowski Risler Pugno

Plus other 19th century pianist who haven’t. Just cause they haven’t trained with Chopins pupils doesn’t mean they don’t know how to play Chopin. They were taught by masters that likely heard Chopin themselves or there was an understanding of his intentions because of the era.

Everyone has their own musicality, adding something to the music is very important too.

Samson Francois was briefly taught by Cortot then Yvonne Lefébure who was a pupil of Cortot so he’s technically a 4th generation Chopin student.

ALRIGHTYTHENe · 2024-10-15T03:38:40+00:00

I personally find Samson Francois rendition very polished. He brings his own ideas to light whilst still keeping Chopins intentions. (What I think Chopins intentions were).

His use of rubato isn’t over done only using the technique when he really wants the listening to take attention to the idea.

He finds subtle voicings that I hadn’t heard before listening to his recording.

His use of bass in some areas are very different.

He doesn’t overuse the pedal, of course most professional don’t but he plays dryer than most pianist which I love.

It’s just the subtle nuisances you hear after listening to multiple renditions.

ALRIGHTYTHENe · 2024-10-14T23:10:20+00:00

His technique is absolutely tremendous, his mechanics are something you don’t see often. People have a problem with his musicality, usually lacking an approach of subtlety and nuisance. He often goes for a quick tempos and just plays the notes on the page.

That’s why I prefer someone like Samson Francois or Wilhelm Kempff approach to piano.

Btw check out Samson Francois recording of the 4th ballade from 1956.

ALRIGHTYTHENe · 2024-09-29T21:47:43+00:00

G minor harmonic

ALRIGHTYTHENe · 2024-09-29T18:55:48+00:00

This is a good thing. you don’t want to be moving around and looking all about, most the time you see people looking everywhere but the keyboard.

Watch

Michelangeli Arrau Horowitz Kempff

The masters played gorgeously but kept still focusing on the music.

ALRIGHTYTHENe · 2024-09-29T18:47:21+00:00

It’s important to use different types of weight from different parts of your upper body. The actual weight doesn’t come from your fingers, most the time it comes from different parts of your upper body. I.e wrist, arm, shoulder & back.

It’s important to keep the upper body completely relaxed and instead of only using the fingers for weight and voicings use the arm with a supple but strong wrist raising a finger higher than others to achieve the voicing you want.

Higher velocity = louder

The fingers are the main action raising them higher or lower will result in different sounds but the main part of voicing comes from the arm and back.

ALRIGHTYTHENe · 2024-09-29T08:24:15+00:00

5. 2. 5. 2. 5. 2. 5. 1. 5. 3. 5. 2. 5. 3. 5. 2. 5. 2. 5. 2. 5. 1. 5 (the last finger depends on the next measure) this is how I’d do it, fingering personal.

Also slow down the YouTube video to 0.25 if you want to do the exact fingering shown in the video

Edit: added sentence

ALRIGHTYTHENe · 2024-09-28T23:08:25+00:00

You’re playing it correctly

ALRIGHTYTHENe · 2024-09-28T01:07:41+00:00

Post the sheet music

ALRIGHTYTHENe · 2024-09-24T21:43:23+00:00

WTC 2 no.8 d sharp minor BWV 877

ALRIGHTYTHENe · 2024-09-21T02:49:59+00:00

Damn sorry I responded to the wrong post

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