What music sheets are you playing right now?

[Pianist Da Sootopolis]

I'd like to learn the whole thing, but the first movement is the one that really captures my attention.
As is often the case with Schumann, I can't justify learning a whole set of pieces when only two or three stand out, and the rest is mostly musical rambling.

[Dekkadeci]

I'd like to learn the whole thing, but the first movement is the one that really captures my attention.
As is often the case with Schumann, I can't justify learning a whole set of pieces when only two or three stand out, and the rest is mostly musical rambling.

Schumann's prone to musical rambling no matter your definition of "musical rambling": several of his pieces are associated with "Eusebius" (slower, dreamier, more introspective) and/or "Florestan" (faster, more extroverted, more impetuous, more passionate). Yes, and/or: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasiest%C3%BCcke,_Op._12 contains an analysis of of Schumann's Fantasiestücke, Op. 12 with some of the pieces tagged as both "Eusebius" and "Florestan".

Unfortunately, I'm a pretty big fan of "Florestan" music and am generally turned off by "Eusebius" music (although the "Florestan" sections of "Eusebius and Florestan" pieces generally redeem them in my ears). Probably my favourite "Eusebius" music (such as Liszt's Transcendental Etude No. 6 in G Minor and instrumental versions of Wagner's Pilgerchor) are ones with long melody notes and a very busy accompaniment (you can argue that the accompaniment provides "Florestan").

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Getting back on topic, Stephen Chatman's "Spring Celebration" was one of the etudes I had to play for piano exams when I was younger, and I think I've gotten a lot better at it since. It sounds pretty cool for a song with tons of accidentals, a blurry sense of key, and a vague C tonic. The below video does not do this song justice, IMO:

I personally play it with a strong progressive rock influence--snappier chords, stronger accents, and more aggressive drive.

[cashwarrior1]

So I bring Gusty Garden Galaxy to my piano teacher so I can learn it. I picked this piece because it seemed like good practice for left hand jumps and triplets against eighth notes. My piano teacher says that the song looked very difficult and to take it very slow. I get home and learn the song about 10 beats slower than marked in about an hour and half. I now realize that I could've easily put this song in a 2 hour learning session 

[InsigTurtle]

Interesting how you mention Stephen Chatman, he's the head of the composition department in the university I want to go to. I've heard that he's a pretty difficult professor, but I don't think I'll head into music after all.


Anyway, I'm doing one of Rachmaninoff's Preludes, #5 from op.(op oppa gangnam style)23, the one in G minor.

[JDMEK5]

My latest banjo project:

[InsigTurtle]

Still workin' on that Fugue in C# minor. I didn't notice some of the subjects until now, so I gotta highlight them. My copy of it is really just a mess of lines and numbers now.

[E. Gadd Industries]

I'm about to start sight reading Dudeman's sheet "Mole Hole" for a chemistry class assignment.

[JDMEK5]

Chem + Sight Reading = ??   Lol explain plz

[Dudeman]

Chem + Sight Reading = ??   Lol explain plz

Moles

[JDMEK5]

Oh

[daj]

Bespinben's Sympathy and Sincerity, yeaaah <3
(first bespinben sheet, whoop!)

I'll be honest - when I first heard this I think I teared up a bit. But time constraints made it not a good idea to try this out.

Then I ran PMD2 for the most of this we, and suddenly the PMD soundtrack comes to life. And then I thought about this arrangement.

Here we go, time for some feelsie ;w;

[Latios212]

Heeeeeeey I learned this one

[daj]

Heeeeeeey I learned this one

Ahaha nice, nice ^^

One hour into this, and holy crud it's amazing. It's one of the best VGM sheets I've ever laid hands on (Deku's Ocean Palace, Seb's Starship Mario, Lat's Route 201 being some other nice examples hehe). I'm definitely recording this sometime in the next 36 hours, and when it comes out I'll have a nice little write-up on why it's awesome to come with it, ahaha <3

Really though, this sheet makes a passionate pianist extremely happy. So glad to have picked it up

[E. Gadd Industries]

Chem + Sight Reading = ??   Lol explain plz

Moles

Yeah, we celebrate Mole Day (🙄) and I'm not about to do some chintzy poster. So, I'm sight reading & then improv/remixing it for the project

[Dudeman]

Fun fact, Mole Day is my birthday (and Bloop's and Braixen's)