Saturday, January 31, 2009

one of the song i'm working on

One of the song that I'm working on the piano is Fredric Chopin's Etude. Etude is a french word meaning "study." Etude is a music sheet for improving technical skills. Of course, it is technically difficult, and the difficulties are determined by which technique you try to improve . I'm playing one of the Etude called "Torrent" its specific name is Etude Op.10 No.4. It is inhumanly fast, and in the olden time, they said that it is a composition that can't be played by a human being.
This composition is the hardest etude that Chopin wrote. It is C sharp minor, with continual sixteenth notes that changes theme back and forth. The last part is what you can call the "CLIMAX" it's when the fingers have to move as fast as sewing machines to hit the right amount of power and time. You have to finish this in 1 minute 50 seconds appromixately; and it's difficult to actually succeed in that tempo. But a pianist called Sviatoslav Ricther broke the record to 1 minute and 30 seconds. You can see the video of him playing "Torrent" in the following hyperlink.

Friday, January 30, 2009

The World Map Music Sheet!

This is a music sheet that looks like a world map. Click on the picture to see it more clearly. I've never tried to play this because this is a symphony song. I probably need 23 hands to play it. There is an mp3 file of this if you search it in the google;and of course played by a computer, and it didn't sound as horrible as the Death Waltz. This is however, composed by the same composer; probably took him years to compose. But it's worth it. I want to own this music sheet of its original size. It's really big; and just think about hanging this on the wall-sweet! Isn’t it?

An Impossible Song to PLAY!



This music sheet is a sheet that no one can play; of course, except for the computers. I tried to play it, but it almost ripped my hands off because I had to stretch my hands impossibly to reach those keys. There is an mp3 version recorded by the computer and the sound was not pretty and it was like hitting random keys. If there is any human kind who could play this song without missing any keys, he or she may be the greatest pianist in the world and I would personally worship him or her. This song can be in the YouTube, but the player was cutting off many keys.