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Post by corenfa on Mar 27, 2024 19:24:54 GMT
...After hearing it has wants to rework it. I can't complain if he wants to make it even better than it is now
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Post by keff on Mar 28, 2024 8:49:43 GMT
Does this mean that practising the piece will be put on the back burner?
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Post by corenfa on Mar 28, 2024 21:52:59 GMT
Does this mean that practising the piece will be put on the back burner? Yes, until the next version |
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Post by corenfa on Apr 29, 2024 21:44:36 GMT
Two out of 24 pieces are now in a fit state enough for me to try and perform them. I shall be bringing them out at various piano events, and will record in a couple of weeks to send to the composer.
One thing I've learnt through this process of transcription is that it is really easy for errors to creep in. For example I realised that if I don't clear the selection in the notation program, it will then apply whatever changes I instruct it to to everything in the selection - not just what I thought I had selected most recently. Also, sometimes the composer writes one thing but means another, and I have found various inconsistencies which I go back and ask him about. I have turned out to be right much of the time - he had heard one thing in his head and written down another. It is interesting because with nontraditional harmony, I have no rules to go by - I can only tell if something sounds "odd" in context. Which is often hard to define
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Post by keff on Apr 30, 2024 10:10:11 GMT
I have also found software frustrating, albeit I have used very little music software. I have a version of Sibelius on an old laptop and found it very slow to input anything. No matter though as even if I wrote down a few notes I wouldn't think much of it.
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Post by Zi on Apr 30, 2024 20:28:43 GMT
That's very good news corenfa. I wondered how it was going. I guess this is now the really exciting bit - when you see people's reactions!
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Post by corenfa on May 1, 2024 11:55:49 GMT
That's very good news corenfa. I wondered how it was going. I guess this is now the really exciting bit - when you see people's reactions! The composer was happy to hear the initial recordings I did. He has at least six others on the go at the moment but has not been able to work on much as he is off conducting somewhere. |
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Post by Zi on May 2, 2024 5:52:05 GMT
Do you like the pieces? Are they the kind of thing you like to play? I just wonder how many performers actually get to play material they really like!
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Post by corenfa on May 2, 2024 20:26:07 GMT
Do you like the pieces? Are they the kind of thing you like to play? I just wonder how many performers actually get to play material they really like! The 2 I have received completely, I do like. They are very different. The 2 sketches I have seen, I probably will like, but I cannot really try them because they are incomplete. |
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Post by largissimo on May 4, 2024 17:52:55 GMT
I've spent the past couple of weeks playing pretty much every piano piece I've ever written on my new electric piano. Trying to figure out an order to try to edit and record them in. Every so often I get distracted by fixing stuff in the older pieces - turns out I /have/ learned a thing or two over the years.
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Post by Zi on May 5, 2024 6:07:01 GMT
turns out I /have/ learned a thing or two over the years. That's nice to find that. Congrats on the piano! Are you pleased with it? |
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Post by corenfa on May 7, 2024 12:00:34 GMT
I made the mistake of telling composer friend that one of the pieces he wrote was "a right bugger to learn", because then I had to explain the origins of the term (not British, so he thought it was about insects). And now, like a small child who has learnt a new word, he will not stop using it...
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Post by Zi on May 7, 2024 15:21:47 GMT
And now, like a small child who has learnt a new word, he will not stop using it... rofl! Ah, that thing called 'revert to last save' or even that undo button! |
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Post by corenfa on May 7, 2024 15:49:58 GMT
And now, like a small child who has learnt a new word, he will not stop using it... rofl! Ah, that thing called 'revert to last save' or even that undo button! The incongruous mental image just makes me crack up every time because I cannot unsee him from how I used to know him as a conductor- distinguished looking chap in a tail coat, speaks 7 languages and has a doctorate in the Rite Of Spring... who can't stop saying "bugger" |
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Post by Zi on May 9, 2024 10:43:16 GMT
The incongruous mental image just makes me crack up every time because I cannot unsee him from how I used to know him as a conductor- distinguished looking chap in a tail coat, speaks 7 languages and has a doctorate in the Rite Of Spring... who can't stop saying "bugger"  Yes, the incongruous is often a source of mirth! How is it all going? |
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Yes, the incongruous is often a source of mirth!