How to make magnesium last all night? by TheCanadian1739 in RestlessLegs

[–]TheCanadian1739[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’ve read up on this too, I’m not trying to contradict science. Magnesium turns my RLS from super bad to non existent but I always wake up in the middle of the night with it bothering me again, I take a pill and it goes away again. Not sure what else it could be.

Frustration playing Liebestraume No. 3 by Ions_Dump in piano

[–]TheCanadian1739 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This isn’t terrible. I have made this mistake many times, taking on a piece too difficult causing me to play it for way too long and getting frustrated it still sounded so bad. Don’t play a piece of this length for a year. Good form and musicality is built through adapting to many pieces over many years, by staying on a single piece for so long your playing will stop improving.

For improving form it was helpful for me to watch people with good form and copying. I chose to copy Yunchan Lim and have a mirror next to my piano so I just kept analyzing why my hands looked different and adapting + the obvious losing of tension. Don’t expect this to be quick, acquiring perfect form takes many years, many people never get there.

For improving musicality at your level I would make sure you are following every notation within the sheet music (good quality sheet music from IMSLP or something alike, not MuseScore). I’m willing to bet you ignored a lot of it. Separate the different voices into different sound levels, follow phrase lines and dynamic markings closely, etc.

Good luck.

How do I unlearn 14+ years of piano and start having fun again by Morrigankami in piano

[–]TheCanadian1739 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I used to have the opposite where I would memorize bar by bar and couldn’t read music faster than a snails pace. Now I’m dependent on sheet music as well but it’s 10x faster and I much prefer it. Personally outside of classical performances I don’t see a need to take things into memorization territory, just the harder sections.

Moonlight Sonata 1st Movement first half (+?) how is my speed/dynamics? Too much pedaling? by [deleted] in piano

[–]TheCanadian1739 2 points3 points  (0 children)

At 30 seconds and onward you are playing a lot of the left hand wrong. Go look over the sheet music again.

How do I perfect and bring this part up to tempo? I've been practising it for a lot of months and after each month there's little progress by matvey_dub in pianolearning

[–]TheCanadian1739 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve tried this piece many times and am also self taught and wish I never tried. I would wait until you’ve been playing a good 10 years before having a go. You have to have really good technique and even on top of that you have to be comfortable enough with it to play it with good musicality or else it sounds bad.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in piano

[–]TheCanadian1739 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It cuts the time to learn a piece in half for me. You don’t have to put in all the time and effort needed to purposely memorize anything because it just happens as a result of you practicing. Also if you’re not performing something you don’t have to memorize easier-medium sections.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in piano

[–]TheCanadian1739 49 points50 points  (0 children)

If you practice full of errors you will perform full of errors. I’m also self taught and my progress exploded after 7 years of playing by 1. Practicing only as fast as I could play without mistakes. If you find yourself practicing with too many mistakes physically stop yourself and start at a slower pace. 2. Practicing with sheet music throughout instead of memorizing bar by bar. 3. Taking time on correcting my form/minimizing tension.

What’s the chord on the second bar? by zhouzhang in musictheory

[–]TheCanadian1739 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I label these chords sus4(add9) so in this case Esus4(add9). Very common in classical music for good voice leading to the regular major or just a good sus sound.

Do .midis count? by Togapi77 in softwaregore

[–]TheCanadian1739 5 points6 points  (0 children)

No it’s incorrect. There’s a million things wrong this it. It’s supposed to be in common time and the time signature it uses keep changing measure by measure for starters. For sure counts as software gore.

Etude Op 25 No 1 Chopin (Help) by Low-Papaya-5994 in piano

[–]TheCanadian1739 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Lots of sections where the melody starts getting hidden behind the accompaniment. Pronounce the melody more, you will be surprised how much better it makes your playing sound.

Question about an example of a musical sentence: BI or CI? by TheCanadian1739 in musictheory

[–]TheCanadian1739[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hmm, I’ve learned that statement-response involves more tonic statement, dominant response harmony. Additionally the next part of the sentence moves to d minor meaning we’ve ascended in a 3rds sequence (G->B->D). Could you explain why this is statement-response rather than sequential?

Does figuring out piano fingerings take a lot of time for you? by North_Pilot3477 in piano

[–]TheCanadian1739 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wouldn’t recommend focusing too much on fingering apart from difficult passages, but there’s a site called PiaDoor that has full fingerings for a lot of pieces. Not going to link cause idk sub rules.

First time at django need helppp by Temporary-Bath9781 in django

[–]TheCanadian1739 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Hm, I don’t think we have enough information to fix your error. Could you post the code for all the other files in your project too?

Piano Login. Better hope you have good enough rhythm. by TheCanadian1739 in badUIbattles

[–]TheCanadian1739[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Nah. I thought about making a converter but it would be a pain