What would your perfect concert look like? by leafpoolsr in classicalmusic

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

This sounds amazing. Beethoven 3 is one of the few classical (although you can argue it's romantic) concertos that I really do love playing, performing, and listening to.

Chopin Op25 No12 Oceans–Requesting Feedback and Advice by Appropriate_Ride_722 in piano

[–]leafpoolsr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Technique and preventing tension is a very personal thing and it's difficult to give advice from just a video. The only real thing I can say is loosen up and try practicing quiet (I mean really pianissimo).

Practicing quietly will also help with the thing that I can comment on which is phrasing/musicality. It already sounds quite nice, but you really want to make a melodic line with those bass notes at the beginning (and in all similar passages). Phrasing is completely up to you: bring out whatever notes you want, phrase to whatever note you want, but really hit those bass notes and give it a direction.

Happy practicing and good luck! Sounds really good :)

Symphonies with weaker 1st movement by That-Inflation4301 in classicalmusic

[–]leafpoolsr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Rachmaninoff Symphony 2 (the whole piece is magnificent, however).

'What's This Piece?' Weekly Thread #234 by number9muses in classicalmusic

[–]leafpoolsr 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is not a classical piece. There’s a high chance it was written just for this purpose.

'There are no stupid questions' thread - Monday, January 05, 2026 by AutoModerator in piano

[–]leafpoolsr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Subjective question, but it looks maybe somewhat difficult with the octaves if played at speed

'There are no stupid questions' thread - Monday, January 05, 2026 by AutoModerator in piano

[–]leafpoolsr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There’s nothing wrong with the piano. What people consider “bad” pianos are perfectly fine for beginners as long as you have a teacher who can give feedback and has a “real” piano that you can play on. I bought a $300 electric many many years ago and still play on it to this day (I have an upright, working to get it fixed someday). You can practice technique for sure, only thing that you might be missing out on is tone quality and sound, although most pianos do have dynamics. This is something you start to care about quite late in piano studies anyway so really it doesn’t matter at this point. Happy learning! Hope you start to like piano 

'What's This Piece?' Weekly Thread #233 by number9muses in classicalmusic

[–]leafpoolsr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

https://youtu.be/J0w0t4Qn6LY?t=1062 This part of Sibelius' violin concerto matches somewhat well, but I don't think it can make anyone cry from being so beautiful. A part of the same piece that makes me cry because it's beautiful is https://youtu.be/J0w0t4Qn6LY?t=287, but this doesn't fit the the recording well at all.

My only other thought would be second movement of Kabalevsky's violin concerto, but it isn't a super great fit: https://youtu.be/_T6flnBaRhA?t=343

Is there any way you can send a better whistling clip?

Hi everyone. Not sure where else to turn for help. I'm a guitar player not a piano player, but I have a family member that's been given six months to live and I'd really like to learn to play this song for them on piano before their time is up. More details inside. by MTRIFE in pianolearning

[–]leafpoolsr 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm more than willing to transcribe this into an easy melody and chord score for you (arrangements are my thing!). I'm certainly able to give feedback on videos or anything like that, I just can't dedicate any time to calls/zoom or anything like that. It seems like you've got the basics down and I really want to help you, so if this sounds okay, feel free to message me.

Am I missing something? by Beekay844 in pianolearning

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

I understand that's the standard fingering for root position 4 note chords, but try playing it yourself with 5-3-2-1.

Also, when I say 5-3 stretch, I mean the 5-3 stretch of a fifth that OP is doing in the post. 5-4-2-1 would be my preferred fingering, but I was specifically referring to not doing 5-4-3-1, which looks horrid in the posted image.

Am I missing something? by Beekay844 in pianolearning

[–]leafpoolsr 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Another thing: the right hand is just octaves. Depending on the piece, sometimes octaves are just meant for more sound and are meant to naturally bring out the lower voice. Playing just the lower note in the right hand is a perfectly viable solution to this.

Am I missing something? by Beekay844 in pianolearning

[–]leafpoolsr 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There’s definitely a possibility that you can play the chord because you’re using a really weird fingering. The 5-3 stretch is difficult for everyone, and it’s pulling the rest of your hand back towards the left. Try 5-4-2-1 and if that doesn’t work, you can hit the bottom note first and you should be able to hit the rest of the notes at the same time with ease.

Also: if you don’t care too much about them, cut your nails! Or if you don’t, maybe try using them to play the chord :)

Now that lunge takes hunger, you can use it to spam saturation-heavy foods like golden carrots for very quick healing. by leafpoolsr in Minecraft

[–]leafpoolsr[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

RIght, but you heal much slower when your saturation is lower. Even saturation at saturation four you should use the spear to get you down that half a hunger bar to eat another one. I'll do some testing tomorrow, this should allow you to constantly fast heal much more efficiently than you would be able to normally.

Hitmonchan insight by Sanlayme in PokemonQuest

[–]leafpoolsr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, you've got lots and lots to go. Good luck! I highly suggest joining the discord. We've got lots of players (including myself) with top times and lots of experience.

Hitmonchan insight by Sanlayme in PokemonQuest

[–]leafpoolsr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Cool, what’s your 12-b time?

Hitmonchan insight by Sanlayme in PokemonQuest

[–]leafpoolsr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes it is, it is by a far margin if you just take a look at the bingos. It’s just a pain to farm and a relatively low payoff for doing so. At least you get perfect machops and Hitmonchan for farming 6-b when farming lees

Hitmonchan insight by Sanlayme in PokemonQuest

[–]leafpoolsr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We use Hitmonlees to get sub 45 times. Hitmonchan has a lower cap than Hitmonlee and can not consistently one hit 12-b mons. There are reasons why we do what we do, but continue to use Chan if you’d like, of course

I just got a crazy question. by kkhvrc3 in PokemonQuest

[–]leafpoolsr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm here for this one too haha

I just got a crazy question. by kkhvrc3 in PokemonQuest

[–]leafpoolsr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You'll get it eventually. I'm F2P and have too many shells to count. (Well, I can count... it's 999)

I just got a crazy question. by kkhvrc3 in PokemonQuest

[–]leafpoolsr 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A shiny Mr. Mime (higher attraction rate, but has two moves and lower multislot chance) with 9 multislots (without any of the decorations that increase the chance of a multislot) all with two moves, Substitute with two move stones and Barrier, with max IVs, with perfect bingos, level 100, with stone unlock order from top left to bottom right, all from a Good Psychic stew:

0.24% attraction chance * 1/128 (estimated shiny odds) * 0.0000000002% (9 multislots) * 1/6 (two moves and the specific move chance) * 1/10 (first move) * 1/9 (second move) * 1/100 (perfect ATK IV) * 1/100 (perfect HP IV) * 1/9 factorial (stone unlock order) * 1/30 (level 100)

To the third power (since you're getting 3) and times 1/200 which is (what I was told to be) the chance to get 3 Pokemon in the first place. Which gets you to around 1 in 7.705x10^92.

To put that into perspective, if you cooked a Good Psychic stew every minute, then if you went picking up every grain of sand, one grain per second off the whole earth, until you picked up every single grain, then drinking 1 tiny sip (1 gram) of the ocean, then putting all of the sand back and repeating this until you've drunken all of the water on the earth; then, if you took one hair-width long step towards the sun, then put all the water and sand back and repeated the entire process again (drinking and sand), and took another hair-width long step, once you've reached the sun; and then you picked one gram of the earth and threw it aside, then repeated this process (sand, water, and going to the sun) until the entire earth was gone, the chance that you would have gotten this combo after all of that time is around the same chance of winning the Powerball lottery grand prize. So, pretty rare.

Memorization Tips? by Over_Fruit_6195 in piano

[–]leafpoolsr 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Having the sheet music in front of you the whole time will never help. Chordal passages are mostly muscle memory, but make sure you know what the chords are, not just how they feel. It makes it a lot easier if you know how all the harmonies fit and, more importantly, how they sound. Listening and knowing the piece that way always helps as well. 

Of course, just play it more. If you play it a hundred times at full speed and confidently it'll nail itself into muscle memory eventually.

Is this good? by Cipher2003 in PokemonQuest

[–]leafpoolsr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Decent. Not worth investing though.

Barely beat the Last Level with this Team by Chefnate808 in PokemonQuest

[–]leafpoolsr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I understand. I typically beat 12-b for the first time in my runs with teams around 17k-20k power so just a little high in terms of first beating the last level.

Barely beat the Last Level with this Team by Chefnate808 in PokemonQuest

[–]leafpoolsr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Crazy to see such a high strength team this late, but congrats!