For all intrumentalists! ... A Performance Exhibition?

How will this get going? Should be beseech a Mike to make a sub-forum or something?

I dunno...I'd like to see it through though.

If you wish, if you think it is something that important. This did spark quite a bit of interest, I am relatively surprised. For a Sub-forum... maybe each person would have their own thread, and post any recordings in there, where other people can comment. It sounds like a lovely idea to me... thoughts? Would just enforce the 1 thread per person deal... kinda like the journals, but only in recordings. *ponders...* Would such a thing fit under the forum, Interactive?

*goes off and listens to above recording*

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OOOHhh..... that is a WONDERFUL harpsichord... is that in your home?
Either way, I soo envy you. Very nice tone....
Very good playing, I would just bug you about keeping consistent tempo throughout. Also, is is marked to be faster at the very end there? I wouldn't be sure. There were just a few bits here and there, but very nice! Pretty ornaments, are those your own?

I think I've heard Byrd before, very good stuff, I love that old rennaissancy sound.

Yes, it's my harpsichord at home. Well, the playing wasn't my best; I just played that segment to test my camera's recording. As for the tempo... with dance music I am usually very strict, but the Lachrymae Pavan, despite being a pavane, clearly is not a dance piece, so I let the tempo flow more variably. I think that passage would make more sense in the context of the whole piece, since it is the first major climax. No tempo markings exist in this music of course, and especially in Renaissance music performers freely add ornaments and even improvise new figures and patterns where appropriate.

perhaps we could upload videos on Youtube and provide links for each?

Alrighty, if no one objects, I'll unveil my horrible horn playing.
Loosen up your jawbones, they'll be much cringing to be had.

I've been playing horn for a little over a year now, maybe 14 months or so... either way, I'm relatively new to it and brass in general, so bear with me.

Horn_1_20-2-08 - eSnips, share anything

Above: recorded today after a 3 hour practice session. I spent an hour on each trumpet, tuba, and horn before I hit "Record", so my lips weren't behaving too well, but well enough. First is my solo from To Challenge the Heavens and Sky, which we are doing in band. I took 3 takes, the last being horrendous. Then I played a two-octave C scale (concert F) then arpeggio, then tried a few lowish notes. Then I jabbed away at my only memorized excerpt from the Strauss horn concerto, a quick little bugger with some nasty jumps. Then I noticed I was running out of time and decided to plod my way through at tempo without stopping... you can see what happens by the end. I hate that last accented note, I always miss it.

Especially in the slow solo excerpt from the beginning, I noticed my pitch with REALLY unstable, this happens a lot with my slurred passages. Any advice?
Oh yeah, and you might notice the tone sounds a little choked... I had to cover the bell a little bit because if I didn't it was too loud and it clipped on the mic and sounded horribly nasty. Recorded on my mom's laptop while she was out grocery shopping.

Oh, whoops, I forgot. I don't have a private teacher on any brass whatsoever. Self-taught. D=
Oh yeah, and the horn is a Holton beginner model because my school sucks. Yuck. I'm might be getting my hands on a slightly better Yamaha next year... (yay!) I've played on a Conn 8D, and I loved it, and my sound was a little better so..... .....
Oop, and my mouthpiece is a Bach 11, it's my favourite out of three. Holton Farkas mouthpiece SUCKS.... my other is a Schilke, it's really deep (and really missing right now), the Bach is rather shallow and cup-shaped.

I'm impressed! For being self-taught you're really good

I wonder If I should record something. My room is really echo sensitive and the aucustics makes it sound like a jar. I know, It's strange.

I am a self taught piano player, so my teacher was an idiot that didn't know what he was doing. But I have been playing off and on for a long time.

This is played live into Sibelius from my keyboard. I did remove around 15 notes that were doubled up with others due to my clumsy fingers and then used GPO Steinway for the end product, but James said it basically fits the bill.

Here it is
Feb 9 2008 piano

Ron

James

The above piece is different from the one you commented on, but I like this one better.

I went back and listened to you on the horn. Not bad for 14 months!!!

I have played Guitar and piano for most of my life and the most important thing I have found is that when playing, the beat is the most important aspect of it all. If you hit a wrong note, yet keep the tempo right, most people don't even notice the mistake.

As you play this, you get better. A lot of that is because you keep the beat, instead of pausing when you make a mistake. That pause is what makes a mistake stand out.

Great job.

Ron

I play piano and keyboard.

Sounds like a good idea to me. A sub-forum of the Performance one, perhaps.

Though I'm limited to a crappy keyboard, a decade-old $20 desktop mic, a $2.25 desktop mic and a $2 dynamic mic.

I've tried on the decade-old one... both flute and trumpet sound awful (unless my tone is really that bad, but I'd doubt it on the flute). Clarinet sounds dry.

Well, go try on the others.

And Jair... that doesn't help us much, I'd like to hear you play, too!