Fast and Furious

Hey people, this is my first piece of music I'm posting here. Hope you all enjoy it, it's sort of a rondo with an ABACA(Coda) form. :)

~Daniel

Fast and Furious.mid

Fast and Furious.pdf

Very nice piece... I liked very much the beginning, but probably it's very hard to play. The right hand will be knocked off after a few minutes.

Positive: Great theme, simple and funny at the same time, it's easy to remember (it reminds me a bit of some Chaplin movies). The melody in the second piece is good, because it isn't as happy and simple as the first.

Negative: Although it's a very impressive piece, it has some porblems: the left hand, it will be impossible for a player to jump from the lowest c to the c that is 2 octaves higher (bar 119 or 127). I also think, that you have to smooth a bit the passages between part A and B and between A and C. The last, but not least, point, ist the ending. I think it should be a happy ending, not a deep one like have. I think the piece could end on bar 132, adding a high Cm chord and falling again.

So... very nice piece, I adore the theme, so nice one for you first post.

Thanks for the post. About that jump you were referring to, if it's possible for me, it's definitely possible for a professional pianist, and I'm not a professional (yet).

I'm just a little confused about your references, since the piece only has 129 measures, and you mention 132. I believe I'm right in guessing you meant 123?

About the ending you mentioned, do you mean similar to the last few measures of the first movement of Beethoven's 3rd Piano Concerto (which is very similar to the main theme of my piece, however I didn't copy from it)?

Okay, I must apologize... I didn't look at the sheet (pdf) but I looked at the midi file, that I opened with Sibelius. There were 137 measures, so the measure I mean at the end is measure 122 (after your sheet).

And about the ending... I don't have the 3rd Piano Concerto from Beethoven, neither do I remember the theme *shame on me*

I think, that after the last G in measure 121, you play the 4 Cs, then play GCEb as a chord one octave higher, and then you fall again into the 4 Cs. I think it would be a better ending. Your continuation seems to me, that something new will follow, not that the piece will end in a few seconds.

Greetz

Luca

PS: You are right... The two Cs aren't imposible to play... simply very hard, I tried it myself... and good luck for your carreer as a professional pianist. Wherea re you from and how old are you? :huh: I'm sixteen and from Switzerland

The two c's aren't even hard... I am used to (OVER) two octave jumps at high tempos.... and I am not even a professional pianist... I am still working for my ARCT diploma. Try playing ragtime and you will know what I mean. Jumps 24/7...

Have you seen George Gershwin play the piano with super jumps?? Man he is INSANE. Type George Gershwin piano solo on YouTube.

3 Octave Jumps might be impossible even for a professional pianist if it doesn't jump back and forth.

This piece may be challenging to sight read for a few days, but after that, on a rating of difficulty, of 1 being beginner, and 10 extreme skills,

I'd only give it a 7/10 for DIFFICULTY

because it isn't too rythmically challenging, not too long (endurance), no strange fingering or chords and MOST OF ALL I AM A HARD MAKER and HARD TO PLEASE. I loved your original theme. For creativity and simplistic style its 8/10. Good on your part.

I can't wait to listen and look at more of your compositions, also I would like to know how old are you? I am 18 and in University, struggling to compose. I play waaay better than composing, so I need to learn theory and bring that level to my playing ability.

I'm 17, a senior, and I started learning piano at 12 or 13. I'm mostly self taught (and thus can be much better than I am now), but now I have a professional teacher, John Hendrickson. I started composing a few months after I started piano. Composing-wise, I have had NO instruction or help whatsoever, except for repertoire that I have gotten to know over the years, from Beethoven to Chopin to Ravel to Whoever... I wanna be a professional pianist despite the competition that I'll face... and eventually become a orchestral conductor, of course with composing on the side.

So basically, you only "copied" (not copied but have a similar melodic idea) the forms of old manuscripts, (the chromatic lines, glisses, general flow and self-taught harmony yourself? When I compose I face huge barriers of chord progressions, and resolutions. I was wondering if perhaps anyone you know can give me a lesson or help with my compositions?

Nice job by the way... I learned piano when I was 6 and I still can't ad-lib or improvise on the spot. George Gershwin can, but he had many years of crazy experience. Anyways, good job.