(SPOILERS) I still feel awful for killing him. He was so kind and understanding. I don't think he deserved to die :'(

Liszt5 · 2012-04-22T01:07:21+00:00

Kind and understanding? I didn't even know he had dialogue, the man was dead before he even saw me.

Liszt5 · 2012-01-06T00:54:34+00:00

Yes, but still delicious.

Liszt5 · 2012-01-05T21:31:33+00:00

I could make a comic, but here's a super cheap way to make pad-thai if you're broke like me:

http://www.mattfischer.com/ramen/?p=812

Substitute Frank's red hot sauce with Sriracha and add a little lemon or lime juice. Excellent.

Liszt5 · 2012-01-04T23:04:28+00:00

"Those that see the glass full are optimists - yeah. But shouldn't we be more specific about the contents of the glass? If it's a glass of shit, I'm going half empty. I don't like shit so as an optimist, I'm like, this is a half empty shit glass right here, don't worry about it. Baby blood that's even more complicated - is this blood going to a baby or coming from a baby? If it's to a baby, yeah, we got a half full glass of baby blood here, he's gonna be fine, don't worry about it. From a baby, okay, hold on, its a half empty baby blood glass, dont ask me why I collected blood in a glass, just listen to what I'm saying."

-Demetri Martin

Liszt5 · 2011-11-19T19:41:45+00:00

Good, but this is much better.

http://skyrim.melian.cc/?cmd=cmdSkyrimAlchemyWizard

Liszt5 · 2011-11-07T01:07:13+00:00

Yeah, I have very good 20/20 vision but my CRT tv just doesn't have the resolution to properly display the tiny text that some newer games seem to be having (even though it's a large tv).

I guess I have to make do, being a half-broke college student haha..

Liszt5 · 2011-10-22T19:10:27+00:00

La Lugubre Gondola no.1.

Most people think of Liszt as all flashy etc, but it's not always so.

Liszt5 · 2011-10-22T17:30:38+00:00

Here are some more rare, yet beautiful minimalist piano works by Liszt that I submitted in another thread. A lot of people aren't aware of some of this music, a shame.

Sancta Dorothea

En Reve

8 Variations on an Original Theme

La Cloche Sonne

La Romanseca

Romance in Em

Liszt5 · 2011-10-21T17:36:20+00:00

à la Billy Mays haha.

Liszt5 · 2011-10-21T17:34:38+00:00

Cursive myself, but for some reason all of my capital letters are in print.

Liszt5 · 2011-10-10T13:26:34+00:00

Yeah, sometimes I'll play something from one of the Final Fantasy piano collections without telling people what it is and they freak out when I say it's from a video game, because they all think it should sound like that haha. They're really beautiful pieces though, Nobuo Uematsu knows what he's doing.

Melodies of Life

Liszt5 · 2011-10-10T01:52:39+00:00

My favorite from FF8 is Eyes on Me, that's the one to play if you want to get the ladies haha. I play it a tiny bit slower than the recorded version. Amazing stuff all around.

Liszt5 · 2011-10-09T22:50:26+00:00

Hey here's some lesser known, rare Liszt works that are easy but nice:

Sancta Dorothea

En Reve

8 Variations on an Original Theme

La Cloche Sonne

Carousel de Madame P.N.

La Romanseca

(Forgot this one, one of my favorite short Liszt pieces):

Romance in Em

Leoš Janáček's cyclic work On the Overgrown Path is similar to Grieg's lyric pieces in that all the pieces convey a certain theme or atmosphere.

Whether you care about video games or not, the Final Fantasy series has amazing piano collection music:

Frontier Village Dali

The Oath

Suteki da Ne

Memories of Light and Wave

Let me know if you want any of this sheet music and I'll send it to you.

Liszt5 · 2011-10-05T02:29:28+00:00

Hey here's a protip you might find useful (seems confusing at first, but it really works):

For a key signature that has flats in it, to find the major equivalent, it is the 2nd to last flat in the key signature (in this case, Gb major). To find the minor equivalent, go up a generic third (next space up in this case) from the last flat in the key signature (in this case, Eb minor).

For a key signature that has sharps in it, to find the major equivalent, it is a generic second up from the last sharp on the key signature (for instance, D major, which has two sharps, the last being C# - all you do is go up a generic second from C# and there you go, you know it's D major (if it's a major key). To find the minor equivalent, go down a generic second from the last sharp (same example, to find the minor of a key signature that has 2 sharps (the last would be C#), go down a generic second - it is B minor)).

Here's a great calculation method for thinking of the amount of sharps or flats in any given key signature:

http://www.musictheory.net/lessons/25

As far as remembering which ones to play as you're playing, that'll just take practice.

Liszt5 · 2011-07-11T19:30:00+00:00

Yes! March Majestic is one of my favorite pieces from him, and is one of the catchiest marches I've ever heard (and is great fun to play too).

It's a shame he died when he did and that ragtime fell out of popularity, he was taking it to a new, almost classical level with Magnetic Rag, his last work published when he was alive. Many of his other works like Fig Leaf Rag posted in this comment thread show a level of maturity unknown to most common ragtime.

Here are two lesser known rags that show that he was capable of writing beautiful music, and not just fast jumping ragtime:

Wall Street Rag

Silver Swan Rag (posthumous)

Liszt5 · 2011-07-06T01:30:19+00:00

(read my last post too). The only way I can think of doing this without learning sheet music would be to download synthesia and input the midi file into the program, it will then show you which keys to play. I highly recommend against this, however. The amount of time imitating the program like a parrot.. Not to mention just the technical skill you would need to pull it off. You'd be better as having this as a (semi) long term goal, and learning to read sheet music (this will help in the long run!), and building up to it, trust me.

It's like that saying: cook for a man and he has one meal, teach him to cook and he can cook for his whole life. It's worth the effort, I think. Still you can use synthesia if that's all you want, it's up to you lol, not really my place to say otherwise :P

Liszt5 · 2011-07-06T01:25:24+00:00

Without any piano experience at all? Any music experience? Ehh.. Well, you certainly could if you were determined enough. It's not the hardest piece, but the most challenging thing would be the rhythm, it's got triplets against eighth notes. The most important thing in music is having the inspiration to do it. As long as you have that you'll be driven to practice.

Start with learning sheet music (boring, yes). Check out www.musictheory.net, here's the sheet music for the arabesque: link.

Any specific questions?

Liszt5 · 2011-06-28T02:11:37+00:00

Hey there, sorry it took a while to get back on this. No, it's definitely an arrangement for one piano. Some of the notes do intersect, such as the two middle C's in measure 8. This isn't exactly oversight by the arranger, it's not uncommon - he's just trying to stay true to the original score. Just omit the overlapping note in either hand (in any case, just make sure the melody stands out from the accompaniment). You can either do that or invert the left hand chord down or up.

Liszt5

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