Ask a pianist.

what should I do to become virtuoso? must I study piano like the pianoholic? 10 hours per day playing hanon?

Jam it back in, in the dark.

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As far as I know, Rachmaninoff only played Piano, but I found it's questionable since he also composed some compositions for Cello isn't it?

question for you: What's the first virtuostic composition you played?

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Let's see... Rachmaninoff's, Ravel's, Chopin's, or Liszt's would be an obvious example. what is the first compostion you played done by these composer?

Also, did you actually spend 8 hours per day playing that boring Hanon? My instructor said it's the absolute requirement to become professional pianist... OMG, that made me retreating my dream to become a pianist.

Anyway, I'm more interested in History of Music now. Let me know If you need resources or discussion toward a composer's life.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by pianist

By the way, are you playing Hanon for 8 hours per day??

Uh there is no way I would do it. in the past I tried to play hanon regularly for 2 hours... and It only lasted for three days xD. I guess I'm not really interested in piano anymore...

Originally Posted by pianist

Do you study Music in Uni?

No, but I love reading books about composers. When I was in high school, I wrote a paper about music history contains biography of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Chopin. Too bad there is no musicology at any university in my country, I wish I could enter one.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Well, my teacher said so during a consultation. There are Several universities which have music as major studies, but they are not cheap. -_-; most of music colleges here only majoring in performance I think (piano, flute, etc). I ended up in international relations instead.

The funny is, I'm more knowledgeable to music history than my friends who are studying in music colleges. They are really2 lazy to read literature.

next question: do you study how to compose too? What's your favorite style in composition? Baroque? Romantic? Classical? Atonal?

I was speaking idiomatically.

Uh no, I did try to learn things or two about composition. I even bought a book of introduction to composition, but in the end it's just sleeping with dust in the shelf. Too damn hard when you have no teacher ^^; if I became a composer, I would write music in baroque style for sure xD

Oh yeah, when you compose, do you use instrument to help you composing the tunes? or you just scribble it down? (assuming you have perfect pitch and could name any tune perfectly)

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Oh yeah, when you do free improvisation, what key do you play at? I mostly play in Cm or C. That's because I practiced from wrong root... two years ago I started to improvise Ballade in Cm by Buergmuller. Since then my mind seems unconsciously play the motifs of that song.

Sigh, I really wish could play in another key. Is there any tips to practice playing in another keys? (I would love to play in Gb, my favorite key.) I feel stucked in keyboard improvisation. While people could improvise pop songs, I could only play in Cm...

How ya doing, buddy?