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Piano Talk--JBryan; Discuss your piano playing
Topic Started: Nov 27 2006, 11:31 AM (791 Views)
TomK
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Great link IT. It has already helped me out. I found the Bohemia Rag which I played many years ago but now have about one and a half pages of.


JB, if you don't mind.

You have been flying below the radar with the piano stuff. You practice a couple of hours a day and your drink Makers Mark.

Tell us what you play why you play it and why you like what you play.

The begininning of an ongoing series.






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JBryan
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Not a lot to say, Tom. I play two things, Bach and Ragtime with a little Gershwin I have been working on. I play usually three hours a day and my wife, who is a saint, has gone from pulling her hair out to saying she actually likes it sometimes which must be progress.
"Any man who would make an X rated movie should be forced to take his daughter to see it". - John Wayne


There is a line we cross when we go from "I will believe it when I see it" to "I will see it when I believe it".


Henry II: I marvel at you after all these years. Still like a democratic drawbridge: going down for everybody.

Eleanor: At my age there's not much traffic anymore.

From The Lion in Winter.
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TomK
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JBryan
Nov 27 2006, 03:48 PM
Not a lot to say, Tom. I play two things, Bach and Ragtime with a little Gershwin I have been working on. I play usually three hours a day and my wife, who is a saint, has gone from pulling her hair out to saying she actually likes it sometimes which must be progress.

If you would be so kind.

Please explain your progression through Bach.
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JBryan
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I have learned (can play from memory) up to Prelude and Fugue XII from the Book of the Well Tempered Clavier except Fugue XI (I like it but it has been hard for me to find time for it). I am working on number XII now. I can play these with varying degrees of proficiency from stumbling through to quite well. I am also working on the Goldberg Variations which has taken away time and slowed my progress on the WTC. I can play the Aria and the first four variations from memory, again with varying degrees of proficiency but I am progressing rather well I think. I am currently working on Variation 5 which is quite a challenge but very interesting.
"Any man who would make an X rated movie should be forced to take his daughter to see it". - John Wayne


There is a line we cross when we go from "I will believe it when I see it" to "I will see it when I believe it".


Henry II: I marvel at you after all these years. Still like a democratic drawbridge: going down for everybody.

Eleanor: At my age there's not much traffic anymore.

From The Lion in Winter.
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plays88keys
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I have two movie clips I took of JB playing: the C minor prelude in Bach WTC and Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag. When he finished, both Improv and I had mouths hanging open.

He is amazing.
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Mark
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Post them!!!

With JB's permission of course.

I will host them.

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katie
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I wanna hear JB clips !!!

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apple
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on my piano..

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katie
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:waiting:
No JB clips?
I will cry ..

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apple
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you can't hear that?
it behooves me to behold
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katie
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No .. am I supposed to click on something :confused: ?

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apple
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:D
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plays88keys
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Katie, I'll see about uploading them to Photobucket...

JB, if this is a problem, of course I will remove them right away.

oh, and they are approx. one minute clips of each piece -- not the whole thing. sorry 'bout that.
You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.
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plays88keys
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J Bryan performs. In addition to his talent, I'm also very impressed with his piano deportment. Totally confident!

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v365/pla...=JBryanBach.flv

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v365/pla...ryan-Joplin.flv
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George K
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Whoa. I think I'm going to burn my piano.
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Larry
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Mmmmmmm, pie!
Very good, JB!!!
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apple
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it's incredible..

that music is soooo hard to play well.
it behooves me to behold
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Optimistic
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Great! Loved the Maple Leaf.

Man, sometimes I feel like such a phony hanging out in a place with such talent :ph43r:
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Jane D'Oh
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Thanks, that was fantastic!

I love listening to you all play, please keep posting them.
Pfft.
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JBryan
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Thanks for the kind words. I play those much better now. :)
"Any man who would make an X rated movie should be forced to take his daughter to see it". - John Wayne


There is a line we cross when we go from "I will believe it when I see it" to "I will see it when I believe it".


Henry II: I marvel at you after all these years. Still like a democratic drawbridge: going down for everybody.

Eleanor: At my age there's not much traffic anymore.

From The Lion in Winter.
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Horace
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Freaky, we have like the same repertoire. :) I really liked those, specially the joplin.
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Freaky, we have like the same repertoire.


Great minds and all that. ;)
"Any man who would make an X rated movie should be forced to take his daughter to see it". - John Wayne


There is a line we cross when we go from "I will believe it when I see it" to "I will see it when I believe it".


Henry II: I marvel at you after all these years. Still like a democratic drawbridge: going down for everybody.

Eleanor: At my age there's not much traffic anymore.

From The Lion in Winter.
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David Burton
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I’ll have to wait til next week – when I’m home – to listen to them.

My piano playing has really gone down since my oldest daughter and husband and cats and dog have moved in. When I’m home I can maybe get in an hour a day when they aren’t around, sleeping or whatever. I should take up the bagpipes. I have been playing some things George K suggested and really like the challenges they pose – pieces by Francis Poulenc. I manage to keep up a few pieces from the late romantics and a lot of Haydn which I play at home since my boss loathes him – well really the whole 18th century classical “Vienna School I” although she appreciates Bach. I play some of him too, though less than I used to.
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Dave Spelvin
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JB: So good to hear you play. Very nice going.
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katie
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Wow JB.
That is incredible.
Practice pays off.
You & your hands look so relaxed while doing it too.
Thank you so much.
I really enjoyed that.
:)

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