An interesting transitionary album between rock and classical is
Maksim's "The Piano Player". EMI 7423 5 57522 2 2.
Classical purists probably hate it, not sure about the rock fraternity!
For me, this marriage between rock and classical works. Give it a try!
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- by Geelan
- 08 Oct 2008, 14:37
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: Classical music - where does one begin?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 16354
- by Geelan
- 03 Oct 2008, 19:40
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: Teaching Style
- Replies: 22
- Views: 25429
- by Geelan
- 03 Oct 2008, 17:02
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: Teaching Style
- Replies: 22
- Views: 25429
I imagine most people have no idea how to distinguish a good teacher from a bad teacher - until it's too late. Perhaps the aspiring student or his/her parent should first ensure they have a comprehensive overview of all that is involved in learning to play the piano - everything from the anatomical ...
- by Geelan
- 26 Sep 2008, 21:45
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: Practising - Traditional v Modern
- Replies: 22
- Views: 20748
I have no reason to believe those authors (subversives to some, obviously :wink: ) are dismissing or undermining the fundamentals of well established teaching practice ie, reinforcement, pattern recognition, skill development, testing etc. They are addressing, as I see it, the inefficiencies and sho...
- by Geelan
- 25 Sep 2008, 23:33
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: Practising - Traditional v Modern
- Replies: 22
- Views: 20748
Markey - Billy the Kid wasn't as quick- just back from the loo and you're there! :o Yes. I have a similar attitude. For self-teaching the eclectic approach is, perhaps, the better way of finding a middle path here - long live Socrates and his Golden Mean! By the way, the Kemble will arrive tomorrow ...
- by Geelan
- 25 Sep 2008, 23:01
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: Practising - Traditional v Modern
- Replies: 22
- Views: 20748
Marky - Looks like I sure yanked your chain with this one! :lol: I don't interpret either author as criticizing scales, arpeggios and broken chords in themselves. As both yourself and Dave point out, they are essential building blocks. But the authors are certainly critical of the emphasis placed on...
- by Geelan
- 25 Sep 2008, 18:35
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: Practising - Traditional v Modern
- Replies: 22
- Views: 20748
Practising - Traditional v Modern
Looking through some books on the topic of piano practice, I notice how most recent authors on the topic are severely critical of traditional methods. The constant repetition of scales, arpeggios and broken chords are, as they see it, little more than time wasting - little is learned of musical valu...
- by Geelan
- 23 Sep 2008, 23:51
- Forum: Piano History
- Topic: Schiedmayer
- Replies: 5
- Views: 8633
- by Geelan
- 23 Sep 2008, 10:54
- Forum: Piano History
- Topic: Schiedmayer
- Replies: 5
- Views: 8633
- by Geelan
- 23 Sep 2008, 02:02
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: How can I play the piano more accurately?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 17349
- by Geelan
- 23 Sep 2008, 01:57
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: How can I play the piano more accurately?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 17349
Booseph - Gill is right! Listen to her. There are only two possible ways you can be counting your mistakes: 1) Recording yourself first and then counting the mistakes on playback. 2) Actually counting your mistakes as you play. Either method indicates a fixation, an unhealthy concern, you have with ...
- by Geelan
- 20 Sep 2008, 23:33
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: How can I play the piano more accurately?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 17349
- by Geelan
- 20 Sep 2008, 02:29
- Forum: Piano Advice
- Topic: Specifying a UK Factory!
- Replies: 14
- Views: 19251
Well, after a 300 miles + round trip drive today, I have much lighter wallet and a new Kemble Mozart (Mahogany/Marquetry version). For two of the most interesting and enjoyable hours I've had in a while, I got my hungry fingers on old and new uprights, grands and baby grands, in Steinways and Bosend...
- by Geelan
- 18 Sep 2008, 22:23
- Forum: Piano Advice
- Topic: Specifying a UK Factory!
- Replies: 14
- Views: 19251
Thanks to both of you for the advice - it has been very helpful. The business which has the Kemble agency over here is a well-known and highly respected one - TG! They have used Yamahas and new Kembles in stock. One of the Kimbles is a 121 Mozart edition, the website does not offer a model number fo...
- by Geelan
- 18 Sep 2008, 21:50
- Forum: Piano History
- Topic: Schiedmayer
- Replies: 5
- Views: 8633
- by Geelan
- 16 Sep 2008, 22:09
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: Tone Control on Digital Pianos
- Replies: 11
- Views: 16371
Yes! I agree fully. The only problem over here is to get one's hands on new instruments. Unlike digital, testing a used unit to make a decision for a new one probably won't work. Besides, I'm mighty suspicious of the secondhand market here - there are too many, most with the same description, same p...
- by Geelan
- 16 Sep 2008, 21:47
- Forum: Piano History
- Topic: Schiedmayer
- Replies: 5
- Views: 8633
Schiedmayer
I've been offered a Schiedmayer which has been well looked after. The number is: P12505.
Any idea of date etc?
Any idea of date etc?
- by Geelan
- 16 Sep 2008, 21:38
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: Tone Control on Digital Pianos
- Replies: 11
- Views: 16371
I had a feeling somebody would make this suggestion! :lol: In fact, over the last few days I've been reading that forum - looks like buying new is confusing but buying s/h is a nightmare. I've posted a new topic there to start things rolling. It may take a while to reach a final decision but I think...
- by Geelan
- 16 Sep 2008, 21:31
- Forum: Piano Advice
- Topic: Specifying a UK Factory!
- Replies: 14
- Views: 19251
Specifying a UK Factory!
I'm in the market for an upright acoustic piano. At the moment, I'm only learning to play using a keyboard - I can almost hear the purists sigh, but, believe me, I am converted. I am looking for something along the lines of the Yamaha P121N, U1, Kawai K5 or a Kemble equivalent - suggestions please. ...
- by Geelan
- 13 Sep 2008, 17:29
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: Tone Control on Digital Pianos
- Replies: 11
- Views: 16371
Had a chat with a number of dealers - one an authorised Yamaha dealer and service centre. A new P121 = around 6.3K Euro, U1 new = around 8.5K Euro. Used U1 ( 20 years old) = 4.6K Euro, used U3 (20 years old) = 5.5K Euro. Haven't managed a price on a used P121. If what dealers say is true - pianos in...
- by Geelan
- 12 Sep 2008, 23:59
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: Tone Control on Digital Pianos
- Replies: 11
- Views: 16371
Many thanks to all for your responses. It looks as if an acoustic is on my shopping list. Tweaking Ivory or the VSL Bosendorfer settings, adjusting velocity curves or simply controlling volume with the left hand, would not allow me the tonal control which I knew had to be achievable. I had been expe...
- by Geelan
- 12 Sep 2008, 19:12
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: 'Weaker' hand
- Replies: 19
- Views: 22503
But what a singer! What a performer! By pure accident I was at Freddie's funeral back in the eighties. Myself and a friend had been making a visit to Kensal Green cemetry and as we came up to the crematorium building, Freddie's funeral cortege pulled in. At the time I remember thinking there was som...
- by Geelan
- 12 Sep 2008, 15:05
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: Tone Control on Digital Pianos
- Replies: 11
- Views: 16371
Tone Control on Digital Pianos
In this forum's thread "Is Using a digital piano, bad for your fingers touch???" Joseph makes the comment: Exactly! Its the touch gradations that a clavinova just can't do! I think the question of tone is, perhaps, worthy of a thread in itself. I wonder if there are beginners trying to rep...
- by Geelan
- 12 Sep 2008, 14:03
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: 'Weaker' hand
- Replies: 19
- Views: 22503
I'd be surprised to find somebody who has not a natural imbalance in the use of both hands. I imagine few, if any, would be naturally 100% amdidextrous. Though I'm right handed in most things, I use my left when playing golf or using a spade in the garden. On piano, it is my left which I find easier...
- by Geelan
- 12 Sep 2008, 13:52
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: Finger Strengthening
- Replies: 37
- Views: 36699
It's quite a coincidence, but I've been talking to an aquaintance whose friend is in hospital undergoing an operation - the problem is Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. Apparently the operation takes an hour and a half and involves an incision from the palm to the wrist. The operation is taking place on her l...
- by Geelan
- 12 Sep 2008, 10:08
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: Finding new pieces to learn
- Replies: 27
- Views: 31935
- by Geelan
- 12 Sep 2008, 08:58
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: What are we all learning to play at the moment?
- Replies: 50
- Views: 46838
- by Geelan
- 11 Sep 2008, 22:08
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: What are we all learning to play at the moment?
- Replies: 50
- Views: 46838
- by Geelan
- 11 Sep 2008, 21:24
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: Best of British luck, Nutroast!!
- Replies: 50
- Views: 37147
- by Geelan
- 11 Sep 2008, 20:45
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: Best of British luck, Nutroast!!
- Replies: 50
- Views: 37147
- by Geelan
- 11 Sep 2008, 20:32
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: What are we all learning to play at the moment?
- Replies: 50
- Views: 46838
- by Geelan
- 11 Sep 2008, 20:07
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: Finding new pieces to learn
- Replies: 27
- Views: 31935
Anyone know of a single volume collection of classical piano music available in which the music has been chosen to cater for Grades 1-8? I find that so much of what is available for beginners consist only of excerpts. Incomplete pieces are not a great incentive, at least for me as an adult, to becom...
- by Geelan
- 09 Sep 2008, 18:17
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: How can I play the piano more accurately?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 17349
- by Geelan
- 09 Sep 2008, 14:57
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: Finger Strengthening
- Replies: 37
- Views: 36699
- by Geelan
- 07 Sep 2008, 00:56
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: Finger Strengthening
- Replies: 37
- Views: 36699
Hi moonlight, I've been with Cubase since version 2 and Wavelab since version 3. Initally, I used both mainly for radio documentaries - Cubase for mixing and Wavelab for mastering. I had occasionally played with MIDI but it's only recently that MIDI technology has become really dependable ie, hardwa...
- by Geelan
- 06 Sep 2008, 21:23
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: Finger Strengthening
- Replies: 37
- Views: 36699
- by Geelan
- 06 Sep 2008, 18:52
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: Finger Strengthening
- Replies: 37
- Views: 36699
Moonlight: Great link. The MIDI files are a bonus - they import easily into Cubase 4. Dave: Have a listen to the MIDI files on Moonlight's link! If I could play them like that I'd give a concert. They are definately moderate, if not faster. Weather wonderful here, at last! Sunshine and warmth. Benea...
- by Geelan
- 06 Sep 2008, 16:27
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: Finger Strengthening
- Replies: 37
- Views: 36699
Dave: Thanks for the link. Hannon's been around for a long time. I know that many swear by his exercises - others at them. All the same, history favours him and that's good enough for me. Joseph: Your advice is much appreciated. The simple exercise I was doing with five adjacent keys was along those...
- by Geelan
- 06 Sep 2008, 10:56
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: Finger Strengthening
- Replies: 37
- Views: 36699
- by Geelan
- 05 Sep 2008, 20:27
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: Finger Strengthening
- Replies: 37
- Views: 36699
Finger Strengthening
Any tips/exercises for strengthening the little and ring fingers of both hands? The weakeness of both are not apparent, to me, in the major and Minor scales but become obvious in the chromatic scale. I tried a simple exercise of placing the fingers of both hands on adjacent white keys. Then, without...
- by Geelan
- 02 Sep 2008, 22:15
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: Hello, can I join you?
- Replies: 66
- Views: 49293
- by Geelan
- 02 Sep 2008, 22:13
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: Adult Beginner
- Replies: 28
- Views: 27877
- by Geelan
- 02 Sep 2008, 18:12
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: Adult Beginner
- Replies: 28
- Views: 27877
Moonlight - Thanks for the encouraging words. I agree wholeheartedly with you regards the learning of anything. I've proved it to myself many times. I'm looking at the music for Fur Elise right now and cannot make up my mind whether I'm looking at Ties or Phrasemarks based on what yourself and Dave ...
- by Geelan
- 02 Sep 2008, 17:37
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: Hello, can I join you?
- Replies: 66
- Views: 49293
Talking about Christmas reminded me. Do you Anna, Sparkley and poss Geelan ever use the organ setting, or any voice besides grand piano on your Clavs (know you can't Nutty!) I never bother myself, probs because I'm learning to play the piano and not anything else! [/quote] I've been experimenting w...
- by Geelan
- 02 Sep 2008, 17:04
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: Adult Beginner
- Replies: 28
- Views: 27877
- by Geelan
- 02 Sep 2008, 16:56
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: Adult Beginner
- Replies: 28
- Views: 27877
No, Dave, I don't live in a Gaeltacht area. I'm about an hour and a half by car from the nearest - the Connemara Gaeltacht. I usually go there a few times a year to do a little photography. Connemara, Achill Island and Clifden in Galway are my favourite locations. My Irish too, is very rusty - I hav...
- by Geelan
- 02 Sep 2008, 01:20
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: Adult Beginner
- Replies: 28
- Views: 27877
Many thanks to you all for the welcome agus go raibh maith agat to you Dave - haven't heard your surname around here but I'll do some research on it and let you know my findings. I never realised there was so much interest across all age groups in learning to play the piano. Some months ago I mentio...
- by Geelan
- 31 Aug 2008, 00:10
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: Adult Beginner
- Replies: 28
- Views: 27877
No discouragement taken! Your point is very important. I would never have thought so until I read Dr John Meffen's book and another, into which I dipped, written by a medical Dr who was also a concert pianist. This latter book, I can't remember either the title or the author, but I have it somewhere...
- by Geelan
- 30 Aug 2008, 22:01
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: Adult Beginner
- Replies: 28
- Views: 27877
- by Geelan
- 30 Aug 2008, 21:55
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: Adult Beginner
- Replies: 28
- Views: 27877
Very interesting! And interesting too is your comment regarding development of bad habits. This is one of the reasons I'm using the metronome at such an early stage. I'm concentrating on note accuracy, fingering, eveness of tone and eveness of the time intervals between notes. While I find the Meter...
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