Piano-playing followers,
Me is scared.
My parents and piano teacher have signed me up to attend a Russian composer celebration.
I'm going to be playing a piece from the Nutcracker.
At Carnegie Hall.
*rips out hair*
Mir-Mir? Jackie?
PLEASE HELP ME.
I need advice.
Have you ever been able to play a piece perfectly? No wrong notes; no slips of the left hand during a waltz-- a perfect six-page-song performance?
Please tell me how you accomplished that! The "Waltz of the Flowers" is an old song that I played about two years ago... though I still practice it...
How can I get it to sound as fresh and exciting as if I'd just learned it? Well, besides practicing for hours on end every day, and trying to get "in the zone"!
Help!
-Mrs. Cullen
P.S. Here is a link to a duet of "Waltz of the Flowers" on piano.
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I usually get nervous right before performing but when I get onstage and start playing not so much. Just do your best, I guess. Make sure you're well-prepared and I've never performed a piece flawlessly. When I played at Carnegie Hall last year I messed up a little at the end but it wasn't noticable because all I did was accidentally play something an octave lower. You kind of have to "get into the zone" when you're playing because it's not really about the notes, it's about the mood and feeling you radiate and create through your music that people will remember.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the wisdom, Awesome One!
ReplyDeleteWhat song did you play in Carnegie Hall last year? How did that grand piano sound? How big was the stage, the audience?
I don't have a problem with the "mood and feeling" part in the first three minutes of the song. Waltz of the Flowers is pretty epic. But there ARE a lot of repeats, so it gets a little boring during the last two minutes, and my hands get tired. The ending is all right-- just the bit before that is hard to get down perfect.
Oh, and I'll try to visualize the audience in their underwear to get rid of the stress. :)
-Mrs. Cullen
I did June Barcarolle (i think that's how u spell it? lol i'm a fail) by Tchaikovsky. The piano was actually not my personal favorite (my favorite is the williamson hall one) like you can't really hear yourself as loud as the audience can so don't like bang really hard to try and make the sound loud enough to sound "normal" to you.
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