Chopin Etudes Player...Need help (please)

Julienpiano

we created a platform for classical musicians called Weefeen at www.weefeen.com.

Will you help me to test it and give me your feedback?

you can try it for free (no credit cart needed of anything).

like us, if you are a musician, I think you will love it because

you can really enjoy listening any part of your performance by clicking on any location of the score
you can upload your performances and listen to a same passage from any performance in one click
you can receive easily commentary from a teacher or your peers

Once logged in, you can check the getting starting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5-i7fbTfV8

The "catch" is this is fairly new and we need folks to really put it through the paces and help us find bugs and give us feedback on what you think we should improve etc.

(Which is why you can try it for free with no credit card).

HOWEVER:

This is not for everyone.

In order for it to be useful to you, you…

A. should be a Pianist

B. Should be able to read classical music score

C. you are a pianist that really wants to perform to your best and is already recording yourself often to listen and improve your performance

D. At this moment, it is limited to Chopin Etudes. If you want another score, that is also fine, you can request in the platform but depending on the request, we are not sure how fast we can answer (but it is free)

E. Your piano level does not really matter (amateur or professional), as long as you can read music sheets.

If you are a person who are convinced that recording yourself is the key to improve faster your performance, we think you will love it

And you’d really be helping us a lot by giving your feedback and stress-testing it.

So if you want to try it out, you can create a free account here: www.weefeen.com

Thanks!

Julien

Amateur Pianist

David B

Julienpiano In order for it to be useful to you, you…

A. should be a Pianist

Check

Julienpiano B. Should be able to read classical music score

I can read music fine, I just can't play and read at the same time. 😞

Julienpiano C. you are a pianist that really wants to perform to your best and is already recording yourself often to listen and improve your performance

Check

Julienpiano D. At this moment, it is limited to Chopin Etudes. If you want another score, that is also fine, you can request in the platform but depending on the request, we are not sure how fast we can answer (but it is free)

I don't play classical. Throw some gospel in there and I'm onboard.

Julienpiano E. Your piano level does not really matter (amateur or professional), as long as you can read music sheets.

Definitely amateur

Julienpiano If you are a person who are convinced that recording yourself is the key to improve faster your performance, we think you will love it

I do believe that this is an important part of my development. The reality is that when I listen to a recording of myself I never sound as good as I thought I did when I was playing. 🙂

Best wishes with your endeavor.

God Bless,
David

Julienpiano

David B

Thank you very much David!!

Julienpiano

David B

Hi David,

You mentioned about Gospel.
I am not familiar with it, but we can give it a trial. Do you have some music score name or link that I should refer so that I can download on the platform?

Thanks!

CyberGene

That sounds like a very nice service! I might actually try it since I only barely qualify being able to play the Op. 10 No. 6 but I’ll have to find some time to refresh it and record it… 😕 But in any case this sounds like a terrific idea and will no doubt be of great use to people who are committed to improving their classical piano skills 👏🏻

Julienpiano

CyberGene

That would be great! thank you! if you want to play something else, let us know. You can even request a new score on the site

CyberGene

Julienpiano if you want to play something else, let us know. You can even request a new score on the site

Actually, I’ve been recently focused a lot on Scriabin, so it would be great if you include some of his scores. His early to middle period works are not unlike Chopin.

Here’s my YouTube channel where among other things I’ve recorded a few Scriabin works:
https://youtube.com/user/CyberGene

Mostly easy stuff since I’m an amateur and self-taught pianist.

David B

Julienpiano You mentioned about Gospel.
I am not familiar with it, but we can give it a trial. Do you have some music score name or link that I should refer so that I can download on the platform?

I don't. I usually just arrange hymns from the hymnal.

God Bless,
David

David B

CyberGene Mostly easy stuff since I’m an amateur and self-taught pianist.

There is something amiss with that statement…

I can understand "amateur" since you don't make a living (generate income) playing the piano.

I can understand "self-taught" since I don't recall you indicating you ever had a formal teacher.

However, requiring "easy stuff" is where I have to draw the line. 😀

I know it doesn't mean much coming from me given my experience and skill level, but dude, you rock! 😀

God Bless,
David

Julienpiano

CyberGene
Thank you

Let's start with one specific piece. Please select the highest priority piece, then I will upload it in the platform as trial.
THen later you can make new score request directly from the Platform

danno858

How about some Schubert Sonatas and Impromptus. Particularly the late sonatas and the op 90 impromptus

Julienpiano

danno858

Thank you.

Please let me know your highest priority piece as a first trial test for you.
IF you like and the platform is valuable to you, then let s put other pieces inside that you would request through the platform!

HZPiano

David B

+1 on this 'reprimand'.

😇

CyberGene

David B hehe, thanks 😀 I’m not sure there’s an easy way for one to judge his own skills. I know there are some systems with absolute rankings and probably what I call “easy” might be considered intermediate, who knows. And with that in mind, a dubious “modesty” statement like mine might actually sound discouraging to another person who’s less skilled…

There are a few things I can say about all that:

I’m often depressed when I see so many pianists playing better than me even though we have similar background, so I often think I’m just a loser trying to play the piano without having any talent whatsoever. I know that’s not true of course but I can’t help it… 😕 It’s a family thing, we always undervalue anything we achieved in our family. (BTW, it has to do with the Seventh Day Adventist faith too, mostly coming from my grandma who was a very fanatical, mostly punishment/fear-driven in her faith and would always stress to us as kids that nothing on this earth is important and taking pride in achievement is a bad thing God would punish… Go figure. But it certainly affected me for life).
In the context of Scriabin, what I play is his easiest stuff, although on an absolute scale it’s not that easy. It’s just that his other works are among the most difficult pieces for piano, quite on par with the piano virtuoso repertoire of the 19th and 20th century.

CyberGene

Julienpiano OK, let’s start with something for the left hand only which presented a certain challenge for me: the Prelude for the Left Hand, op. 9, No. 1. Here’s my video:
https://youtu.be/LnEI9BDPr40

MHirsch

CyberGene

great performance!

MHirsch

CyberGene

may I ask how much time have you invested? looks really challenging.

Julienpiano

CyberGene

This is done

Create a user at www.weefeen.com
Follow the getting started video of 3 minutes on the first page
you will find the score there and upload your performance
All this go quick

Let me know how it goes!

CyberGene

MHirsch may I ask how much time have you invested? looks really challenging.

Well, it's an interesting thing with this prelude. If you see the score, at first it looks like a very easy piece. However that is because it looks too much like a piece written for two hands but it isn't 😀 It's for the left hand only. I've never played such pieces before and it was a brain f*ck at first... I attempted to read and play it a few times but thought it was too difficult to play that way. (BTW, I never tried to play it with two hands, I think it's cheating and besides it would make me learn it the wrong way and then I would have had to unlearn it for left hand only...). Here are the challenges I had:

Make my left hand jump between registers to simulate right hand and left hand
Due to using only left hand, there are some fingering sacrifices which would be too ugly in a regular two-hand playing 😀
Having to play a melody and chords with only one hand in a way that the melody is independently flowing instead of rhythm-linked to the other notes (similarly to how you would play a romantic piece with two hands independently)

Once determined, I think it took me about a week or two to learn it and play it without the score. Then I recorded at least 5 or maybe even 10 takes in order to produce that recording. That was months ago and I have forced myself to play this piece almost every day since, so I play it much better now, or so I think. And I would change some passages which is also why I decided to upload this early recording 🙂

CyberGene

Julienpiano yes, I published it, even put some comments on my own. However I'm on Safari for Mac and when I try to share the link to the video and click on share, it says the link is copied to the clipboard but it isn't... I suggest you also show the actual link, so that people can manually copy/paste it. I still can't copy the link in any possible way to share it here. So, can you please copy the link and paste it here?

Julienpiano

CyberGene

Thank you for the feedback. We will check this issue.

I think your link is this one?

https://www.weefeen.com/scores/performance/71?perf=f3988e28-f631-11ec-900d-f23c9359c9d6

danno858

How about Schubert Impromptu No.3 Op 90?

Julienpiano

danno858

Done.

Please create a user at www.weefeen.com
Then also check the getting started video there that explains how you can get your score and upload your video
If any issue, let me know

Thanks!