because of Chopin, my first piece is perlude No 4 in e minor when I was at age 21, I'm now 23 and I think I'm doing well but I need help from experts, because I work alone, and I teach myself.
shall I post it here or not to give me notices about my playing?

I think it is a very easy piece I don't know if I should post it or not??

Yes you can post it into this forum and even into this topic if you want comments on your interpretation.

I record one by sound forge and it was nice but when I save it, it was very bad

so I go back and record tow version one without the mice boost in the sound recorder by windows but the sound was very trouble

I'm realy sorry, I'll try to record another one for you some times later

but here is the files


I'm realy sorry for this bad recordings, bad mic and piano

but tell me please about the performance

I believe the left hand should play the repeating chords in a much more steady fashion. Like the left hand is your metronome. I thought I heard a metronome in the background, but you weren't following it. Maybe it was just static. Anyway, I think your dynamics are good. I just like a steadier pulse.

I agree with pianolady that it is way too much rubato so it is not flowing forward as this piace usually does. Meaning that it doesn't sound good if you speed up so gradually and then slow down very fastly. I also guess there is a wrong voice in 1:05 but it is not so important.

The main thing was that it is possible to get into the music and keep the rythm at the same time. If the rythm doesn't work the piece becomes restless.

I liked your left hand chords because all notes came at the same time and it is good that there was some musicality in your playing!


PS. Might be good for you to play just the left hand (or why not both hands) with metrone really carefully. Only after you can keep the tempo very well you can rubato but still only a little.

thanks so much
because I do it alone all my fiends and family told me that I have a lot of feelings but I think because of chopin not me
by the way I record this very fast and I didn't do it as the first one, and it was very hot and noisy and I was in herry and didn't get in the mood so plz forgive me


about the constant in left hand I think it well remove the feelings

any way mu second piece I played was moonlight sonata for Beet movment 1 I'm going to post both the E minor and moonlight later thanks

you are right about 1:05 mistake, thank you saori for noticing this thanks a lot, I weren't aware of it

one thing I don't have a metronome

one thing I forgot to say, that I tuned the paino by myself from one year I think, so it is in a very bad tuning


here is the moon light sonata

I don't know why each time I record I mistake a lot

give me your opinon please, but remeber that I've learned alone

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where are you pianolady and saori
what do you thin of MoonLight
I think there is a lot of mistakes and I played a lot of forte and there were no piano as it should be

I record my next piece raindrop Prelude No 15 for Chopin but I'm waiting for your comments I realy loved it

ps: why there is no much download for the pieces I played

Good job!
You have improved really much since your last recordings, or at least you play moonlight much better than Chopin prelude no. 4. The rythm keeps it in shape. Good work!

As you noticed your self, just few wrong notes so it is not too bad. And try to get more dynamics so then the piece will become more alive.

Rami, why are you posting multiple versions of the same pieces ? I understand you have multiple takes of a piece, but please only post the take that you think is the best.

The sound is rather horrible, partly due the to the honky-tonky piano, partly due to the recording. As for your interpretations, the Mondschein is not bad (expect from the mistake in the beginning) but really you should not apply so much rubato in Beethoven. Remember that rubato was not invented yet by then. Very subtle ritenuti are ok but you seem have a problem keeping a steady tempo. Some practice with a metronome could do wonders.

The Chopin prelude comes off rather badly I'm afraid. The tempo is wobbly, there are a couple of glaring wrong notes in the climax, and I think you play the RH in the last bar an octave too high ?
Rubato should only really be applied - and then very consciously - after you have learned to play in time. The concept of rubato in Chopin is not an excuse to pull the tempo about every few notes and rush along at every opportunity. I recommend practising Bach along with Chopin.

If you can improve on your tempo steadiness and recording quality (and have that darned piano tuned ) it will be a lot better !

thanks a lot
but does rubato mean?

and one thing, I've learned alone, and I am just playing fot only 2 years and I began from age 21 so please forgive me

as I said I've tuned the piano myself, so forgive me. and there is bad recording too.

and about the tempo I can keep the same tempo but I think there will be no feelings at all

thanks so much I'll take this notes in consideration

I'll post raidrop later and after Sonata for Chopin No2 in Bb minor movment 3 funeral march.

about bach I played avi maria prlude, but as I said I played the piano because of Chopin and I'll keep doing Chopin for now, so if you can advice me about some Chopin or Liszt

and I have a very big problem taht I have a very small hand I can hardly get from C to the next D, I'm realy doing my best but I dont' have a lot of times, I'm still student at Damascus Unversity-Eonomy College- the forth year and I'm working at day in iron; I think it is bad for the piano, and at night I work in computers, so I can play only at noon for an hour this what i can do for now, and with no teacher only my feelings, I thnink it's great to do what I did.

ok

hi again and sorry for the late

I don't know why only when I try to record I mistake alot

any way here is the tow peices

Ah, that damned piano again.... It is really no fun to listen to. So let's concentrate on the playing.

The Raindrop prelude is really too slow I think, there are a couple of reading errors, and you are very unsure in the ornaments and passagework. In the middle section, the LH melody should be more in the foreground, not the RH drone - we know about that by then. In the climax of the middle section, you make some ugly rushes, best to keep that in strict tempo, and create the drama using dynamics, not 'rubato' (have you looked that term up yet ? )
Overall you need to take care with chords, make sure you play them evenly (that is, press all the keys at the same time).

The funeral march... now that was hard listening. Good that you started over, as it was beyond repair the first and second time, but why on earth did you not cut out the two wrong parts ? It's also very slow, not so much the march as the trio - which should really bring some light and contrast. The march itself should be more desperate and grim. There is a persistent wrong note in one of the chords where the theme gets transformed into major. I suggest that you listen to a recording, and listen to your own recording, score in hand, and try to find the errors.

Apart from a couple of nasty mistakes, these are technically not too bad. But both these pieces are not the most exciting and varied, and a pianist must really do a lot to make them interesting and to keep up the listener's attention. Just going through the notes is not enough.

I only had time to listen to the Raindrop prelude. Overall, I thought it was okay. The thing that bothered me the most was what Techneut said; the tempo. The first and last parts dragged, and you should not randomly rush some of the measures in the middle section. Watch your counting too. I think I heard a couple extra “raindrops” in one place, and not enough in another place.