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Who doesn’t 🤣?

Not the worst likeness I’ve had…!

It really is - a lesser known gem by well known composer!

Definitely give it a go - it really helps develop your theory!

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I think often the faces made are synonymous with a great performance, as they really show the performer is connecting well with the instrument / music they perform. Imagine singing a song with absolutely no feeling! However, I dare say that watching vids of myself back is never attractive 🫣 Thanks for your comment!

It’s not quite perfect yet, but thanks for your kind words!

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Two extreme opposites to play but both wonderful - thanks for watching!

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It’s very hard not to tense up as you speed up, but it’s like any exercise: the more you work with it, the more it encourages it. And don’t get me started on drowsiness - sometimes it doesn’t even have to be late 😂!

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Absolutely right - the next video in this playlist scheduled to go up demonstrates how you can use this approach in C major to help learn them all - a really simple one to demonstrate with as it’s all white notes, of course 😊

Very much the point - we’re all human and we can all test ourselves to help ourselves develop!

That’s wonderful to hear - well done! Thank you for your support and best wishes with your own piano adventures moving forward!

Very much so - very simple but very satisfying structures!

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You’re welcome - thanks for watching

Glad you enjoyed 🤩

If it’s not too much it’s too little with that mic - I’ll get a new one soon 🫣

@@jackmitchellsmith4925 I thought it was kinda cool actually

One of the greats!

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@@jackmitchellsmith4925 Can you also tell how to control ourselves to not get tensed on our wrist because I have pain on my hand and wrist too. I really do not know how to sort out .

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Thank you 🤩

Thank you so much 😊

Thanks for the tips - I’ll certainly look into blender for future vids!

Spot on 😁

Thanks - not personally but I use the sheet music direct app and it’s included on subscription 👍

Everything can be stripped back to the basics, so I strive to focus on the basics with a view to improving most any technique as that’s where it starts 👍

I certainly can - stay subscribed and I’ll get one uploaded 🙂

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His rhythms are definitely a contender for the course. I remember accompanying the titular ‘Sunday in the Park with George’ - that was, of all of them, the one I nearly held my hands up and refused to do! However I pulled through, though I dare say a massively simplified accompaniment on my part!

Welcome to the joy of piano - I hope you enjoy your musical journey 🙂

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Thanks for the feedback - I’m playing around with mic technique so hopefully this will be fixed for future vids. Meanwhile, please see description link for re upload of this video with volume fix 🙂

Oh absolutely - I think what sets Sondheim apart though is the complexity of his music within the genre (musical theatre). Other musical theatre composers of note such as those mentioned (Andrew Lloyd Webber / Frank Wildhorn etc.) are much more straightforward in the music they write (not to its discredit) - so an accompanist in an audition room can have quite the shock when a Sondheim score they haven’t seen before is suddenly presented to them compared to others. Luckily when it comes to classical and modern classical music it’s seldom expected of us to just read it on a whim - we can practice and prepare!

@@jackmitchellsmith4925 As you say it yurself: not at auditions. Some years ago, I used to receive singers (and, on one occasion, also pianists) at auditions at an opera house in Germany. There, pianists have to play everything the singers choose. One of those auditions was an open call and about 500 singers contacted the theatre. It lasted one week from morning till evening and they had to put on additional dates some months later because they could not accomodate them all during that week. It was all pretty much sight reading, even though, of course, most of the audition pieces were standard repertoire - but some was not, and it was quite a lot. Well, two of the sopranos brought Lulu's song (Berg...) and at another audition (for Paul in "Die tote Stadt"), a tenor brought one of the two arias of the emperor from "Die Frau ohne Schatten", which he had chosen because he was singing it at that moment in another opera house. Right now, I am on a summer break between two rehearsal periods of an opera production at a different opera house (still in Germany). Well, on two occasions, the pianists had to play pieces on a day's notice, for a parallel production and for a concert. But you're right: within the musical theatre, Sondheim is one of the more complex composers. I remember sight-reading some pieces of Lloyd Webber's at home of a class mate... easy peasy. I also had to play the piano in the orchestra at a high school musical production (it was „Oliver!“). I don't consider myself a good pianist, but still, there was nothing complicated for me... and my mother had to substitute me at one performance on a few day's notice because I had a performance elsewhere (as an amateur singer in the extra chorus of a big opera production at our local opera house)... that went very well.

My apologies and noted - I’ll be playing around with that mic and hopefully be getting better with the volume. Glad the captions helped though 🙂

@@jackmitchellsmith4925 Thank you, and looking forward to more!

Who did what was not the point of the video, ‘nor did I make the claim. The point is that many of his piano scores / piano arrangements of his work are closer to a condensed orchestration, which leads to a much more complex playing / reading experience for the pianist.

Chilll. Stop shaming.

I will definitely do a video / videos to cover this in more detail!

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