<p>How many scales can you play and in how many octaves? Which composer's songs do you like to play? Staccato or legato? Eighth-notes or sixteenth notes? Treble clef or bass clef?????</p>
<p>Yay a piano thread! ^.^
I pretty much know all the basic scales: chromatic, regular, arpeggio, etc. Most I’ve played are 4 octaves. I like Chopin. Legato. And Treble cuz I’m a righty :P</p>
<p>What’s your music genre? Do you have a repertoire? :D</p>
<p>yay a piano thread for me tooo. ^.^</p>
<p>I love playing beethoven but haven’t played him in a while. If I can find sheet music, I will play some modern songs too just for fun. I can play uh all the basic scales ABCDEFG but im not too good with the minor scales. I prefer legato over staccato coz its easier. kind of notes reall depend on the song and same with the treble and bass</p>
<p>Practicing sucks.</p>
<p>I love to play Canon in D.</p>
<p>Who are everyone’s favorite pianists?</p>
<p>Pachelbel of course.</p>
<p>Rachmaninoff and Chopin. :)</p>
<p>^Chopin as well. And a few Slavic composers that I can’t recall the names of.</p>
<p>Tchaikovsky, because I love playing piano renditions of his compositions.</p>
<p>I don’t play piano, and I don’t really listen to that much piano. But David Obsorne’s “Moonlight and Love songs” is a nice listen. Puts you in a sort of pensive or relaxing mood. Pretty therapeutic I would say! PM me if you want it</p>
<p>I’ll answer my own question.</p>
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<p>Among those who are living: Grigory Sokolov, then Arcadi Volodos. </p>
<p>I strongly recommend buying Sokolov’s five-CD box set; it’s all amazing, but the Chopin and Brahms stand out. Check out his DVD performance as well. Among Volodos’s offerings, his all-Liszt CD and his Vienna DVD are the best.</p>
<p>Chopin is hardcore. I’m playing his Valse No 2 from Op 64</p>
<p>Liszt is the bomb. I mean, he was a playa before that word existed as slang. </p>
<p>Liebestraum is quite pretty :3.</p>
<p>Lady Gaga.</p>
<p>Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 is something I can only dream of playing. I’ll get there eventually. </p>
<p>And my bass clef sight reading is beyond weak. I really should fine tune that a bit.</p>
<p>Oh! And Franz Liszt! What a genius he was.</p>
<p>I enjoy Chopin and Beethoven. I’m trying to learn Chopin’s Waltz in A Minor and I taught myself the intro to Fur Elise a while back. I also like (but cannot play) Moonlight Sonata.</p>
<p>How do you guys improve when it comes to playing and learning songs?</p>
<p>Andrew McMahon (Jack’s Mannequin)</p>
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My piano teacher always tells me to tackle each piece like an exercise.</p>
<p>For example, you can only get good at scales by playing them over and over again. Play a piece through to its end and remember where you messed up. Treat those couple of bars as exercises by playing them over and over again until you can’t mess them up anymore.</p>
<p>And remember that if you’re learning a piece and you stumble over a particular section, don’t start over from the beginning and play until you reach that same spot again. Practice from that spot and save yourself the time and frustration of having to play it from the beginning, which is something a lot of people tend to do.</p>