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| Piano Talk--JBryan; Discuss your piano playing | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Nov 27 2006, 11:31 AM (791 Views) | |
| TomK | Nov 27 2006, 11:31 AM Post #1 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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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 | Nov 27 2006, 11:48 AM Post #2 |
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I am the grey one
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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. |
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"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 | Nov 27 2006, 12:08 PM Post #3 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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If you would be so kind. Please explain your progression through Bach. |
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| JBryan | Nov 27 2006, 12:24 PM Post #4 |
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I am the grey one
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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. |
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"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 | Nov 27 2006, 12:38 PM Post #5 |
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Pisa-Carp
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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 | Nov 27 2006, 01:23 PM Post #6 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Post them!!! With JB's permission of course. I will host them. |
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___.___ (_]===* o 0 When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race. H.G. Wells | |
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| katie | Nov 27 2006, 01:24 PM Post #7 |
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Fulla-Carp
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I wanna hear JB clips !!! |
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| apple | Nov 27 2006, 01:32 PM Post #8 |
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one of the angels
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on my piano..
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| katie | Nov 27 2006, 02:46 PM Post #9 |
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Fulla-Carp
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:waiting: No JB clips? I will cry .. |
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| apple | Nov 27 2006, 02:57 PM Post #10 |
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one of the angels
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you can't hear that? |
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| katie | Nov 27 2006, 03:02 PM Post #11 |
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Fulla-Carp
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No .. am I supposed to click on something ? |
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| apple | Nov 27 2006, 04:09 PM Post #12 |
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one of the angels
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| plays88keys | Nov 27 2006, 05:10 PM Post #13 |
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Pisa-Carp
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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. |
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| plays88keys | Nov 27 2006, 05:33 PM Post #14 |
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Pisa-Carp
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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 | Nov 27 2006, 05:39 PM Post #15 |
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Finally
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Whoa. I think I'm going to burn my piano. |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| Larry | Nov 27 2006, 05:43 PM Post #16 |
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Mmmmmmm, pie!
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Very good, JB!!! |
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Of the Pokatwat Tribe | |
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| apple | Nov 27 2006, 05:50 PM Post #17 |
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one of the angels
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it's incredible.. that music is soooo hard to play well. |
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| Optimistic | Nov 27 2006, 05:56 PM Post #18 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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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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PHOTOS I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up. - Mark Twain We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. -T. S. Eliot | |
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| Jane D'Oh | Nov 27 2006, 06:02 PM Post #19 |
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Fulla-Carp
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Thanks, that was fantastic! I love listening to you all play, please keep posting them. |
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| JBryan | Nov 27 2006, 07:24 PM Post #20 |
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Thanks for the kind words. I play those much better now.
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"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 | Nov 27 2006, 07:34 PM Post #21 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Freaky, we have like the same repertoire. I really liked those, specially the joplin.
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| As a good person, I implore you to do as I, a good person, do. Be good. Do NOT be bad. If you see bad, end bad. End it in yourself, and end it in others. By any means necessary, the good must conquer the bad. Good people know this. Do you know this? Are you good? | |
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| JBryan | Nov 27 2006, 07:38 PM Post #22 |
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I am the grey one
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Great minds and all that.
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"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 | Nov 27 2006, 07:43 PM Post #23 |
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Senior Carp
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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 | Nov 27 2006, 08:08 PM Post #24 |
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Fulla-Carp
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JB: So good to hear you play. Very nice going. |
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| katie | Nov 27 2006, 08:19 PM Post #25 |
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Fulla-Carp
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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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