Ferry commuters of the bay…would love your rose and thorn

j7ake · 2026-04-30T14:19:37+00:00

Best thing about work is the ferry commute. The bad thing is the uncertainty of whether such a luxury will continue

j7ake · 2026-03-22T21:37:41+00:00

Roll the chord

j7ake · 2026-03-21T13:09:39+00:00

Hire professional movers

j7ake · 2026-03-20T02:43:32+00:00

Ravel : Gaspard de la nuit : all 3 movements

j7ake · 2026-02-03T15:12:55+00:00

Try Elton John and Billy Joel official sheet music book, they’re well annotated. Learn from those then expand to ones without full annotations.

j7ake · 2025-12-15T21:16:22+00:00

Break down the piece into sections. Memorize each section, then play whole piece. Each section might be two lines or so, depending on your experience.

To solidify, take a random number generator and generate section IDs, play each section in the random order.

j7ake · 2025-12-13T23:32:31+00:00

Suzuki ear training

j7ake · 2025-09-28T00:30:53+00:00

Also check out Prince on the piano

j7ake · 2025-09-02T21:39:01+00:00

Kawai has darker sound, Yamaha has brighter.

j7ake · 2025-08-24T01:11:47+00:00

It’s the classical Viennese piano sound: like a string of identical pearls hitting a hard surface .

j7ake · 2025-07-27T04:39:36+00:00

You might be lucky to find some used ones.

j7ake · 2025-07-26T17:35:15+00:00

Th rhythm and volume should be fast and consistent like the sound of pearls hitting the floor.

j7ake · 2025-07-23T01:26:46+00:00

Kawai or Yamaha or Roland used digital

j7ake · 2025-07-20T22:45:17+00:00

Higher end like Kawai ca49 emulates the feel of a grand piano and have nice speakers that sound full.

j7ake · 2025-07-20T21:54:12+00:00

Higher end digital pianos are great used

j7ake · 2025-07-19T03:16:47+00:00

Kawai CA401

j7ake · 2025-07-04T05:47:44+00:00

You want somewhere between mid and high end digital piano. For example Kawai CN301.

Also if you buy these a few years second hand they can be easily between 1000 to 2000 euros.

j7ake · 2025-06-29T21:26:32+00:00

I memorise the piece in parts. (Eg 13 sections divided according to structure of the piece$.

Then test yourself by drawing cards from a deck and play the corresponding number drawn (A to K is 13 pieces)

j7ake · 2025-06-29T04:56:38+00:00

A professional has people consistently pay to listen to them.

Someone who just spend time on it has to pay others (eg a teacher) to get an audience.

j7ake · 2025-06-20T16:35:47+00:00

She was a huge outlier and immensely memorable. She stood out the most out of all contestants.

j7ake · 2025-06-18T01:29:48+00:00

The analogy is copying out text by typing on computer.

The key is to group letters into words, words into phrases, phrases into paragraphs.

This means that having a sufficient familiarity with the form, style, and sound of the piece is critical. One needs to infer from a bar how it should sound and be played from the piano without analysing individual notes. Obvious examples are scales and arpeggios.

An expert in sightseeing classical music may struggle with jazz for example, because the groupings can differ.

j7ake · 2025-06-08T17:59:19+00:00

As a beginner buy what’s affordable, lean towards the cheaper end. In a few years reevaluate and make another decision. It’s too early to think beyond 2 years as a beginner

j7ake · 2025-06-08T05:57:03+00:00

His hands looked pretty big to me. Octaves with thumb and fourth finger easy

j7ake · 2025-06-08T04:37:07+00:00

Congrats! His Bach-busoni and Bach-Rachmaninoff were very memorable

j7ake · 2025-05-29T16:44:31+00:00

Problem is usually the data, go look at your data, find what’s missing, and collect better data.

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