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just a general music question..
i'm a pianist myself but i'm also interesting in directing(conducting)...
but apparently if you wanna be a conducter you need perfect pitch (absolute pitch).
Is this true?

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i would say my favourite pianist at the moment is Vladimir Horowitz.
I change my taste all the time...
it really depends on who's works the pianists are playing.
they each have different style so it's pretty hard to tell who you like the best.

By the way i just got a question here...
anyone know how hard is it to play Chopin Nocturne op.48 no.1?
What level would this piece be rank at?

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Originally Posted by Minion

Not as hard as you think. Why don't you give it a try?

thanks, i did played it through a few times....
but dunno if my teacher will let me learn it so i want to know how difficult this piece is, and if it's possible for me to ask him to teach me this piece.
So any ideas or what grade you would place this piece (chopin Nocturne op48 no.1) in?

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lol i think i have alright length hands...not very big but better than most other people in my gender =P
i guess i'll ask my teacher after i've done my assessment and see what he says about it.
thanks a lot

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does anyone know that if there's any differences between these two pieces
or are they the same (it's by Mendelssohn)
"Andante & Rondo Caprricio" and "Rondo Caprricio"

I was speaking idiomatically.

thanks Minion
now i get it =)
By the way do you think this rondo capriccio by Mendelssohn is harder or chopin's nocturne op27 no2, Schumann's Faschingsschwank aus Wien or Khachaturian's toccata?
Out of the four which one do you reckon is the hardest to learn and perform?

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I like the Rondo Capriccio the best out of all the recommended pieces i got given...but guess my teacher doesn't want me to play it yet....(but he was the one who recommended the piece to me and then 2 days later he regreted) =(
The schumann one i only the intermezzo part...
Chopin sounds okay...but apparently my piano teacher really wants me to play Khachaturian's toccata or the Schumann one.
I was thinking picking one from either Debussy's Pour le Piano, Chopin Nocturne or Mendelssohn's Rondo....

How ya doing, buddy?

Thanks for both of your suggestions Luckee Cookie and Minion
I'll chat to my teacher next week and see what he says about each song as well.
Schumann's song sounds okay but not my style, i only like the last two parts and reaching 10th is kind of okay for me so don't worring about that =)
Minion it seems you hate Schumann so much...but i reckon his piano pieces are much better than Mozart =P

How ya doing, buddy?

sorry for disappearing for a while...
was busy with exams...
my final decision (or shall i say my teacher's final decision) is learning Khachaturian's toccata
so no Schumann =P

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i've got another question here and i don't know if anyone can please answer this question for me. I've been looking for an answer for quite a long time but even searching online or library didn't help.
So the question is
Does anyone know if Rachmaninoff played the cello or not? Or was piano his only instrument?

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@eriol
Same here i only know that Rachmaninoff played the piano, but his compositions for piano or cello are much better than most of his other works, so that's why i want to know if he played the cello. Thanks for answering.

As for your question: the first virtuostic composition......hmmmmmmm.....i don't which pieces could be consider virtuostic, would you please give a few examples?....but i can tell you that i have never ever play a piano concerto before =P

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i don't spend 8 hours per day playing Hanon =P
i'm still at high school at the moment so i also busy with school works, right now i'm in holiday so i can practice more. My piano teacher didn't tell me to practice Hanon, he gave another piano technique book to use (he said this book is one of the best exercise book and it's kind of out of print already) and i have my own piano technique book as well. Say if i practice 4 hours that day, i'll spend at least half of that time practicing technique stuffs.

The first virtuostic composition i played.....let me think...
i think the first one i touch on is Ravel when i was in Grade 7 lol
then it's Chopin Nocturnes and Waltzes
I guess the Chopin Nocturne will be the first virtuostic composition i did, i cant remember exactly the name, but it's either op62 no1 or op62 no2.
I have played some virtuostic compositions alone without teacher's trainings and they are not nicely done yet and i realised i need to concentrate more on my techniques so basically i left them aside for a while.
My best playing on a virtuostic composition is probably Elegie by Rachmaninoff and it's one of my favourite piece as well =)
I still haven't decided yet if i wanted to become a professional pianist, if i do i know i need at least 6 hours of practice each day but with the amount of school works i getting from school it's impossible and i don't think my parents really want me to concentrate on music so they don't want me to spend so much time on practicing, which is annoying....

Do you study Music in Uni?
Thanks for offering help, i'll probably ask soon since as music students in our school, we need to perform at least once a term (4 times in a year, one of them is gonna be a recital) and most of the time, we are required to talk about the composers.

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

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no musicology at any university in your country!? How come?
wouldn't there be at least one university to study music??
what about music colleges?

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i see, yes it does cost quite a lot to study music and it's pretty to find a good earning job after graduate from music....maybe you can try out for music scholarships? (i don't know if it requires performing, but i think you should fine with that)

I do study composing as well but i'm not a pro on it. I have like 3 different teachers at school for music, one is our main music teacher, she teaches ous theory and musicology, the other one help us with our performing (whom is also my piano teacher =D) and the third teacher teaches us composing and i think he's pretty famous.

My favourite style in composition used to be late Classical but nowadays i'm leaning towards late Romantic style. Sometimes i compose some atonal but that usually only occur when i'm too lazy to compose and a piece of work is due =P
what about you? Do you compose as well?

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At least you can still compose even without learning properly =P
I only compose baroque style for twice, the first time was a disaster anyway i normally hear a tune in my head and then i'll try to play it on the piano and write the tune down and unfortunately i'm the only one in the class who plays the piano but doesn't have perfect pitch =(
When i have absolutely no idea what i should compose, i'll just sit infront of the piano for ages =P

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Originally Posted by eriol

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...

free improvisation....i don't do that often, i only do it when i'm playing in a rock band, i never go and check out the key properly i just play what ever feels okay and suit with the key. If you have perfect pitch, improvising is going to be easy for you, for people who don't have perfect pitch, it requires experience practice and preparation.
YOu can first check the style and the key the piece is in and using scales that will suit the piece first then later on you can develop your own improvisation.

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