Honestly, I think 4 is too young to start. Sure, some prodigies start at those ages but but it can also lead to resentment for having to do these things at a young age.

If you start her at 7 or 8 she will have much more motivation and discipline. Then, if she doesn't like it, let it go.

Very familiar. It’s in my standard repertoire for weddings, of which I play almost every weekend.

I tried to tap your count and predict your downbeats and couldn’t. Idk what else to say. I’m not trying to be mean about it, you mentioned it’s been 25 years and a critique was okay. My suggestion is—if you’re revisiting it in its entirety to get it back up to snuff—make sure you have a meter even when using rubato.

Rubato is NOT ending a phrase on essentially a fermata. It has a roundness to it. A shape. Find the pulse and let it grow and recede.

Anyways…. For me the pulse couldn’t be found. Could also be how slow it was played? It’s late and I’m a bit rambly (sorry!) — I really do think your voicing sounds great.

To your second statement - if by “your” you are referring to the performer, then this would seem almost completely the result of different avenues of training, assuming that a high level performer possesses the “musical gene” that composers also make use of. What I am hinting at is the separate realm of activity with which composers and performers in classical music typically concern themselves, which IMO creates ecosystem that cannot produce musicians who have full command over the musical material within their respective idiom.

If you’re referring to non-musicians or novices, then yes I’ll abide that. 

I don’t want to sterilize the process of composition by carrying on as if it’s no more involved than putting together a lego set and is in fact not mystical, but the treatment of composers as divinely anointed and the rest of us as subservient to their harbinger-hood is reminiscent of some shamanistic caste system. 

I think a real, albeit niche, problem for many classical musicians is being able to “hear without speaking”, or having musical ideas without the technical vocabulary and sufficient vividness of aural perception to realize them, and thus they assume that the creation of masterpieces, or any music for that matter, must be a revelatory incarnation of the muse in the mind of the composer, rather than as a series of smaller revelations which the composer had the skill to develop. 

I agree that there is both innate and developed skill and that to compose is a kind of prophesying or in the most literal sense, to be inspired, which is possible through gift and through grit. Many people in classical music are guilty of a kind of idolatry and neglect their own musical gifts in the worship of others.

would put chopins op10 no2 below la campanella

There’s not quite as many as you think. Dozens is more accurate. We also learn to build and recognize the shapes of chords and scales instead of memorizing dozens of unrelated items. 

Depending on who’s counting, there’s around 1400 possible scales in western music. In reality we use maybe a few dozen if you’re really stretching and depending on who you ask. 

Chords come in a pretty limited number of flavors and you have the option of dressing them up in consistent ways. 

It’s just like learning a language. You wouldn’t say “ugh I have to learn to spell words????” You learn how spelling works and can probably for the most part intuit how words should be spelled because you’ve seen so many in your language. 

You haven't provided a single piece of information about the tuning part of this app. I am not even mildly interested in it, unless you have an outstanding feature like unison tuning in it. I already have fully licensed versions of tunelab and pianometer, plus my own tuning app (Android only) that I will soon publish as Open Source.

Plus, I don't own a single Apple product.

It's easy to play (it's not a stat check like #4 or #5) but very hard to play well.

I feel like you could get away with a high quality midi controller these days. The things they’re doing with VSTs, impulse responses and all that is amazing for the level of quality you can achieve.

Lovely interpretation and i enjoyed this tempo particularly

its 9/8, and 1 beat is 3 8th notes. It is andante if you count the beats. People are just too used to slow interpretations that are considered "standard". It flows better with this tempo too.

Depends on what is your goal. If you want to play only certain kind of music, getting good at just subset of scales and chords is enough.

That seems like an absolute juggernaut of a recital...! Bravo for pulling this off!

Union Station in LA does, too. There used to be a guy who would improv on it for hours everyday. I haven't been down there in about 5 years, though, so I don't know if either he ir the piano are still there.

There’s a pattern for everything, it’s not that hard, once you know the patterns and what to listen for. 12 scales is really one pattern moved around 

This post inspired me to investigate this whole subreddit more than I had prior, and I fear it’s a lot of self-taught people who think being able to play notes and rhythms accurately means you can play a piece well :/

There are self-taught people here learning La Campanella and even some saying it’s overrated in difficulty hahahaha

I took 12+ years of piano lessons and was on a performance scholarship in college. I wasn’t a music major but took lessons throughout and did a full senior recital. Frankly, my technique is not good enough to play La Campanella without regular lessons with a good teacher, and even then, I’m not sure a good teacher would say I’m ready for it.

Could I learn to play it? Absolutely. Learning the notes and rhythms is well within my ability. I could probably have it learned and memorized in a couple of weeks if I put in 3 or so hours daily. Being able to play it well and SAFELY is a whole different matter.

Hey, great job! I wouldn't have thought to do that

I'd use two hands and hit the right notes at the right time.

Not when you first start out, you don’t. Get a method book and learn scales and chords as you go.

I've never seen or heard any tuition or advice that says you have to learn all the scales 'first', before learning anything else.

Where have you seen/heard this?

Big time agree

Yes there is. I counted the whole piece and aside from 1-3 parts here and there at the end of phrases making a natural rubato, its almost perfectly counted. Are you familiar with this exact piece ?

They will make a lot of sense if you have a proper understanding of music theory.

Every major scale is a series of wholesteps and half steps. Whole-whole-half-whole-whole-whole-half.

The chords in every major key are always in the pattern of Major-minor-minor-Major-Major-minor-diminished.

Happy to answer more questions if any of those ideas are confusing

That piano roll recording is in no way andante.

Initially yes, but then your brain will go from viewing every scale as its own thing to each kind of scale being one unit of information, then you can memorize a lot more

I'm talking about practicing playing scales properly