So, I decided I wanted to learn how to play the extremely beautiful initial part of BWV 848 on piano despite not being a pianist. It is far, far from well played, but I'm pretty happy to have learned it as well as I have considering how terrrible I am at the instrument. :D

eLiE

Canada1039 Posts

January 08 2011 22:06 GMT

Sounds like you're a pianist now.

EDIT:

nbaker

United States1341 Posts

January 08 2011 22:08 GMT

Nicely done, man!

Essbee

Canada2371 Posts

January 08 2011 22:21 GMT

Wow thats nice :D

Navane

Netherlands2746 Posts

January 08 2011 22:39 GMT

Good video angle.

IamBach

United States1059 Posts

January 08 2011 22:43 GMT

Excellent. I love Bach. You should work on his 2 part inventions now. They are extremely important in developing you Bach piano playing.

WakaDoDo

Sweden1183 Posts

January 08 2011 23:01 GMT

What sway notes you bring us here this evening (at least it's dark outside where im at ._.). Mr pianist, please learn terran theme from sc1 now

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You rock

lac29

United States1485 Posts

January 08 2011 23:18 GMT

Wow, very nicely done. I know the difficulties of trying to learn piano. Good job!

blahman3344

United States2015 Posts

January 08 2011 23:24 GMT

Really nicely done, man! It sounds like you really practiced this song, and the practice has certainly paid off. You didn't sound like you weren't a pianist. =P

micronesia

United States24637 Posts

January 08 2011 23:44 GMT

#10

I remember wanting to figure out some songs without actually 'understanding' how to play them... they were out of my league if you objectively measured my piano knowledge/skills... and it's a lot of fun to do that sometimes! Congrats and feel free to keep figuring out other songs! :p

ilovezil

United States4143 Posts

January 08 2011 23:49 GMT

#11

It started to suck after the 42 second mark!

okum

France5778 Posts

January 09 2011 00:32 GMT

#12

I like the ragequit.

eviltomahawk

United States11135 Posts

January 09 2011 01:13 GMT

#13

Dat APM. mmm mmm mmm, so good.
Not being a pianist, eh? You're playing piano, quite well if I may add. Sounds like the makings of a pianist to me.

Anyways, nice choice of piece. JS Bach is beyond awesome.

Necosarius

Sweden4042 Posts

January 09 2011 01:26 GMT

#14

Good job! How did you learn to do it? I've always wanted to learn some random songs on piano

Och vad kan jag vara själv ? D:

Holgerius

Sweden16951 Posts

January 09 2011 02:19 GMT

#15

Thank you for the positive comments! ^__^ And it wasn't really a ragequit, the part that I wanted to learn was finished there (it starts over and then goes into another part that I'm not as fond of

) and I didn't have anything planned to wrap the song up so I just... quit.

Since I am a very good guitarist (fuck modesty :D) I have a lot of theoretical knowledge about music (and therefore also some basics about piano playing) + already fast and well-coordinated fingers, so I've just kept on fucking around with this piece for a couple of months (I think, but I have no idea when I started out), playing a little every day while gradually getting faster and faster, better and better. Considering how hard I thought it was the first 100 times I tried playing it (10 times slower and only one hand at the time) I'm pretty surprised and proud that I can now pull it off at least somewhat decently.

And ya, Bach is totally kick-ass. :D

tarpman

Canada718 Posts

January 09 2011 03:00 GMT

#16

Very nicely done. Already being a musician helps but it still takes lots of practice to get your fingers to move in ways they aren't used to. The piano really, really needs some tuning/maintenance though :/

Lexpar

1813 Posts

January 09 2011 03:48 GMT

#17

Sounds great man. Not surprised you're already a great guitarist, I can't imagine how much patience and discipline it would take to go from 0 musical experience to that.

Zona

40426 Posts

January 09 2011 03:49 GMT

#18

I'm always glad to see a person set out an objective and accomplish it.

How much more of the song are you planning to learn, if any at all?

Holgerius

Sweden16951 Posts

January 09 2011 04:18 GMT

#19

I don't think I'm gonna bother to learn any more of it actually. This is the part that I'm in love with and wanted to be able to play, and it takes quite a lot of time and effort to learn such complex stuff when you're not really supposed to be able to play it.

So I think I'm gonna stop here.