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• aguirremanuel : Hi People, I'm venezuelan guy, I dont speak english but i love the piano and the computer programming, I wanna testing your software for give my opinions and my recommendations.
• Rod : Hi Schumman lover! I like Schummann . I haven't played anything from him yet, but I have listened to many pieces are lovely. Actually the Romantic period is one of my favorites -you must know Schummann is from that time- so I also really love Chopin, and particulary the late works of Beethoven. Do you have any recommendations of good pieces from Schummann to listen or play ? Hope to hear from you soon
• Rod : Pianissimo! I received your mail. I sent you another one! I am glad you liked the article, I'll make sure to share any more intresting articles I read! Make sure you do to
• Rod : ... and Page 2 of the music sheet of "Requiem for a Dream" can be found here: «link» . I hope you enjoy and then tell us how did it go!
• Rod : Hi! Thanks everyone for stopping by . The music sheets for "Requiem for a dream" can be found here: Page 1, «link» and...
• schumman : who kike schumman
• schumman : hi there
• schumman : hi
• Pianissimo! : I seny you an email Rod please check your inbox:D!
• Pianissimo! : Thats a very nice article:P please post more:D
• Guest_2432 : do anybody know whrer i can find the sheets for the soundtack "Requiem for a dream"
• Guest_2432 : i have a question
• Guest_2432 : hello
• Rod : Hi Pianissimo! It's great to find you here, it's a pleasure to chat with you Yes I agree with you the performer is not as great, but it was really difficult to find a video of that piece. Yesterday I just read a really intresting article about the Goldberg Variations. I told you so much about it that made me wanna research more I found this very intresting article «link» and an intresting new performer: Simone Dinnerstein. Beware that there her recordings are comparted to Gould's 1950's recordings, while his 1982's recording are the "perfect" ones . Stay in touch!, Take care
• Pianissimo! : If you need help please feel free to ask and I will try to asist you
• Pianissimo! : Hello everyone:D
• Pianissimo! : And the link of it the performer perfoms it very bad/fast/ I don't think he is mature enough for it... :!:
• Pianissimo! : Yes Rod I was speaking about the liszt piece!:P Are you here now
• Rod : Hi Masha! Thanks for stopping by! Let me help you: "music on the papers" are called "music sheets" or "music scores" in English. You'll find them easily on google, or you may try this link: «link» . This a great site for Cla ssical music scores that are free. Popular music scores are usually sold but you could get lucky if you search . Tell me more about you and stay in touch! Cheers!
• Masha : How it sounds in English "musik on the paper"? I am from Ukraine, and I have no vacabulary with me now, so, please, help me!!!!!!
• Masha : Please help me!
• Masha : I can not find in internet how to play "Only hope" from "A walk to remember"? but not video, but on paper. I am form Ukraine, so I do not know how it is sounds in English!
• Rod : I didn't know him but he is Daniel Rivera, which seems to be pretty good . That concerto is incredible! By the way, regarding the music piece you recommended me, Années de pélerinage Vallée d' Obermann, were you taking about this: «link» ? From Liszt . See you soon!
• Pianissimo! : WHO IS THAT PIANIST?!
• Pianissimo! : Thats pretty nice!
• Rod : Take a look at this video: «link» . Hard to play, but lovely indeed: Rachmaninoff's Concerto nro.3 See you soon!
• Rod : Hi Pianissimo! Thanks for stopping by again I see you have linked Vladimir Sofronitsky in your name again. Really nice
• Pianissimo! : Rod*
• Pianissimo! : Hello Roy!
• Rod : See you soon
• Rod : wow... I'll look for it! Thanks! Have a good night!
• Pianissimo! : Farewell!
• Pianissimo! : Well I'm off Rod
• Pianissimo! : try it out:D
• Pianissimo! : I found the piece technically amazing
• Pianissimo! : by liszt
• Pianissimo! : Années de pélerinage Vallée d’Obbermann
• Rod : Nowadays I am more into composing and improvising on the piano... but sure!!... what do you recommend?
• Pianissimo! : Are you instrested in learning a new piano piece?:P
• Pianissimo! : By the way
• Rod : Great awesome! Glad to know too! Thanks for everything and let's keep in touch! I really enjoyed your video links!
• Pianissimo! : Just so you know my real name
• Pianissimo! : By the way my name is Ali
• Pianissimo! : I will be visiting here more often:D
• Pianissimo! : Mine is «email»
• Pianissimo! : Added you to hotmail!
• Rod : As you may know, I am leading The Piano Encyclopedia development. We have been working for almost a year, and we'll be releasing the first public beta by December, and having many previews and small releases along the way. So I would be glad to give you a sneak peak into the development and I would appreciate your feedback too My email is «email» .
• Pianissimo! : I would be honored!
• Pianissimo! : Sure:D
• Rod : I'll give you my email
• Rod : Hey let's stay in touch
• Rod : for me it's a story that really gives me a chill. You may know that at his late age he didn't enjoy giving concerts anymore, and in one of them he was playing Goldberg, and some people in the audience were falling asleep. It is said that he didn't know if maybe he was accomplishing his mission as Goldberg's variations were for imsonia!
• Pianissimo! : But I will be sure to come again!
• Pianissimo! : Its time for me to go to sleep
• Pianissimo! : Well Rod I have to leave
• Pianissimo! : «link»
• Rod : ..and soon after he published this recording, he died, probably having accopmplished his mission
• Rod : In some interviews it is said that he even said that was his mission, and so he spent many years polishing it up, until he released his last-cd , his last recording, the 1981 Goldberg Variations recording.
• Pianissimo! : and peformers should compose and play there own
• Pianissimo! : that composers should play there own compostions
• Pianissimo! : i liked goulds ideology towards the piano
• Rod : Gould had his excellent piano carrer along the years and published many more pieces, but almost during the last ten years of his life, he considered that his first recording wasn't good enough, so he had to re-record the Goldberg Variations to perfection.
• Pianissimo! : true
• Rod : yes the Goldberg Variations were pretty unpopular, but even so it is said that for Gould first recording he decided to publish The Goldberg Variations. Many people at that time considered that not a good business choice, but he still continued with his idea, as he said that the piece contained G5 G3, and his initials were the same Goldbergs, and so that piece was meant for him
• Pianissimo! : Wouldn't you agree?:P
• Pianissimo! : Glenn Gould = G3 G5
• Pianissimo! : if you also noticed
• Rod : Story doens't end there Hunderend of years later, Glenn Gould started to play piano, and it's said that one of the first difficult pieces he asked his teacher to teach him was the Goldberg Variations
• Pianissimo! : but u never find a pianist who is willing to play it
• Pianissimo! : this piece is so beautiful
• Pianissimo! : im kinda amazed at smth
• Pianissimo! : very intersting
• Rod : So Goldberg would go to the Count's room and play the variations for him until he got some sleep. Then Goldberg began to play the variations among his friends, and so they began to be known as the "Goldberg Variations"- that is where the name comes from.
• Pianissimo! : hehe
• Rod : So Bach asked a very well known harpdicordist to play this piece which was named Gottlieb Goldberg. The leyend says that in his honor, he started the piece with G5 and G3 (G note in octaves 5 and 3) to honor the initials of Gottlieb Goldberg
• Pianissimo! : lol thats nice
• Rod : Incredibly the Goldberg Variations were ordered to Johann Sebastian by Count Keyserlingk because he suffered Imsomnia! So actually this variations were meant for him to get some sleep, and the harpdicordist would play them over again and again.
• Pianissimo! : sure
• Rod : This is perfection : «link» Glenn Gould at it's bets
• Rod : I once read a story that made me love the Godlberg Variations by Gould:) Would you like to know about it?
• Pianissimo! : Its most likley different then Gould but I hope its nice
• Rod : I am going to search for Goulds
• Pianissimo! : Do you like it:D?
• Rod : yes... you did surprise me.. playing Goldberg Variations.. !
• Rod : not quite.. I find it difficult to explain it without talking about chords and giving you a technical example, but it's about adding a note that is not part of a chord to that chord and then resolving it later. Once you know what they are you can recognize them when you listen to them, but the result is they create tension...
• Pianissimo! : true by the way did you check the link I sent?
• Rod : What this produces, is to suspend the resolution and produce more tension. Actually as you may be aware, music is the balance between producing tension and resolving it, and choping is really a genius on that.
• Pianissimo! : like not leaving spacethere was a word for it i forgot
• Pianissimo! : ah so Appoggiatura is more like playing the keys next to each other
• Pianissimo! : Maria Yudina was Stalin's favorite pianist and here is a suprise for you! «link»
• Rod : However, in simple terms, it's a way to describe a melodic movement where a note is suspended to be resolved later - there is a much more strict and tehcnical definition, but so that you get an idea.
• Rod : Regarding appoggiatura, here is a link : «link»
• Rod : Maria Yudina.. sounds familiar.. but not sure though.
• Pianissimo! : Rod do you happen to know who Maria Yudina is?
• Rod : let me see
• Pianissimo! : «link» None plays it better then Horowitz
• Rod : Yes I heard of Scriabin.. but haven't listed much... any piece you recommend of him?
• Rod : I've been playing for more than 14 years, but I stopped from time to time and then began again many times. My last years of study really changed everything for me when I began to study harmony, and learned to compose and improvise on the piano. A whole new world was opened for me!
• Pianissimo! : Or never heard of him?
• Pianissimo! : Do you like Scriabin?
• Pianissimo! : Very true Chopin does tend to add alot of broken chords in his music
• Pianissimo! : Ah yes
• Rod : If you analyze chopin waltzes's melodic lines, you'll see he plays a lot with appogiaturas, and the notes resolutions from chord to chord...
• Pianissimo! : appogiaturas!! BIG WORD ALERT!
• Rod : The melody of that waltze is incredible... it's not only the harmony what makes it sound so beautiful, but many of the *secrets* of the waltzes rely on the embelishments and resources used in the melody.. like appogiaturas.
• Pianissimo! : May I be rude to ask you how old you are Mr.Rod?
• Pianissimo! : Good to know!
• Rod : That is a *lovely* waltz... I've been studying that waltz just a few weeks ago
• Rod : ..but please, look at this video. I really like it, it's Glenn Gould with full orchesta playing Bach.. it's quite incredible: «link»
• Pianissimo! : and anything he posts is pure genius
• Pianissimo! : listen to anything from truecrypt in youtube he himself is an AMAZING pianist
• Pianissimo! : This time it's him playing waltz
• Pianissimo! : «link»
• Rod : Sure please share
• Pianissimo! : Would you like another link to listen too?
• Pianissimo! : I just listen to clasical piano alot!
• Rod : Never took any lessons? The way you talk, you sound like clasical piano player
• Rod : You're so into all this, you'll defintely learn piano! Do you have a piano at least?
• Pianissimo! : He married Scriabin's daughter if I'm not mistaken
• Pianissimo! : He was a friend of Maria Yudina
• Rod : I love horowitz, i have many recordings of him. Chopin needs special care... I will listen more Sofronitsky then
• Pianissimo! : Richter called him a "God"
• Rod : It's really nice and expressive, it's half-through by now
• Pianissimo! : First I loved horowitz then I moved to richter but sofronitsky he made me go
• Rod : well with Gould sometimes is either you love him or you hate him.. there are many different opinions. I personally think he is a genius
• Pianissimo! : What do you think of his playing?
• Pianissimo! : I have to confess I am not a fan of Gould:P But i am a fan of his colluege Pollini
• Rod : (by the way, I am listening to the link you sent me right now)
• Rod : Did you listen to that one?
• Rod : it's one of my absolute favorites
• Rod : Please, do get the recording of 1980's by Glenn Gould
• Pianissimo! : Tell me what you think! Yes I have
• Rod : Have you listened to The Goldberg Variations?
• Rod : Great thanks! I'll have a look.
• Pianissimo! : «link»
• Pianissimo! : Here you go!
• Rod : You're right.. I never heard of him.. what does he play most? I guess I should listen to him
• Pianissimo! : I bet you never heard of him:p
• Pianissimo! : Vladimir Sofronitsky without doubt!
• Rod : Yours?
• Rod : Glenn Gould - I don't need to think it twice. I am total fan of him. I began playing clasical with Bach, and he was my idol!
• Pianissimo! : Who is your favorite performer?:P
• Rod : And the waltzes are really nice, I play many of those ... and like composing waltz myself so many sound very chopin-like :) I really him
• Rod : Yes, the 4th one is also really good, it has many quick moving parts.. really hard to play too!
• Rod : Not only it's difficult in the technical part, but also in the expression that one must put by playing it. It expresses so many emotions it's incredible
• Pianissimo! : His 4th ballade is brilliant as well
• Pianissimo! : He is after all my favorite composer of them all
• Pianissimo! : Ofcourse!
• Pianissimo! : in g minor
• Pianissimo! : His ballade no.1
• Rod : Have you listened to that one? It's amazing
• Pianissimo! : My favorite piano piece
• Pianissimo! : Hah
• Rod : And Chopin is incredible lovely, it has very nice pieces as well as some that are very difficult to play. I wouldn't recommend you to start piano with Ballade No. 1
• Pianissimo! : And Schubert ugh.. I love these people!
• Pianissimo! : Bach does not need to be spoken about his name alone is brilliant!
• Rod : Yes Mozart has really nice pieces, Bach is also incredible with the counterpoint, and the fugues
• Pianissimo! : It takes a genius to recognize Mozart as a genius
• Pianissimo! : And ofcourse Mozart....
• Pianissimo! : Its endless...
• Pianissimo! : Schumann
• Pianissimo! : Scriabin
• Pianissimo! : Rachmaninoff
• Rod : I really love Bach, Chopin, and beethoven the most
• Pianissimo! : Beethoven
• Pianissimo! : Chopin
• Rod : Cool, and what are your favorite composers?
• Pianissimo! : Well I am from Bahrain but I study in Australia
• Rod : I am from Argentina, and yourself?
• Pianissimo! : Where are you from Mr.Rod
• Rod : It's sometimes difficult to find good teachers that really know the stuff and know how to teach it well.
• Pianissimo! : Not close by Nope
• Rod : No piano teachers in your town?
• Rod : So if I think it's still possible to learn piano even for people that people, for you it should be really easy
• Rod : You're 19 and you're telling me that you're old to start learning?! haha Sorry but I thought you were like 50, - you said later age
• Pianissimo! : Plus I cannot seem to find a tutor who is commited to teach me
• Pianissimo! : I'm 19 and Rachmaninoff had the hands for it plus he began since he was four if I'm not mistaken
• Rod :
• Rod : If I am not mistaken Rachmaninov wouldn't say that, there many famous pianists who began at a later age
• Pianissimo! : But I adore clasical music and listen to nothing but it!
• Pianissimo! : I think its a bit late for me to become a pianist:P
• Rod : oh cool ... Looking to become pianist, or just like listening to music?
• Pianissimo! : oh i am a piano fan not a pianist sadly
• Rod : I imagine you play piano by your nickname . What do you and how long?
• Rod : Yes, sometimes it is . But many times users leave messages so we'll read them after and answer :). Tell me more about you!
• Pianissimo! : Yes it is! This is a pretty hard way to chat isn't it?:p
• Rod : I'm good thanks! Is your first time here?!
• Pianissimo! : I'm fine yourself:D?
• Rod : Hi Pianisiimo! How are you!?
• Rod : Hi! how ar eyou?
• Pianissimo! : Hello!:D
• Rod : Once again, I apologize for the delay in the Public beta testing release , I'm sure you will definitely enjoy The Piano Encyclopedia once we release it. If you would like to peek into some of our developments and give us your feedback please contact me at «email» and I will be very glad to show the new features we've been creating and to receive your feedback about it. I am looking forward to hearing from you . Best wishes, Rod
• Rod : Regarding dates, we expect to launch our public beta-testing of the main product by December 15, and we expect to relese previews of the different parts of the product along the way.
• Rod : It's true that it's been a while since we have been promoting the launch of our first product . However, in the last months we have decided to enhance our product with a lot of new features that we did not plan to include in the first release of the Piano Encyclopedia . This includes, for example, creating a community site that will be integrated to The Piano Encyclopedia so that users will be able to fully interact with each other, asking & answering questions, and even give anyone the possibility of sharing their piano experiences or expanding the current piano lessons with their knowdledge, by using an special platform which will let anyone add fully interactive content like what is found in the product core. We've also been improving the user and visual interface of the product, and many more features we'll be posting in detail in the next blog update. We're sure that these new features we'll give our users a much better experience with the piano encyclopedia.
• Rod : HI and thanks for posting your comments. We value all the feedback we receive, and that's why we are working hard to to launch our Public beta testing soon. So far we have only sent some copies to friends as we're still on Private beta testing (we have not sent any public invitations for entering the beta testers area yet). First of all, I want to deeply apologize for the delay on the public beta testing release. We definetly don't want to dissapoint you or any of the people that follow the Piano Encyclopedia development.
• Guest_4238 : ...several months ago I said I would like to be a beta-tester but havent heard anything from the people behind this site.now I check the site and suddenly there's an area for beta-testers??! Whatever you do , people, do not give any crucial info about yourself to this site, it may just be a scam to collect information..And f the product is close to finished then why can we not have a demoversion with the first few chapters so we can all see what it's like?that's one question somebody here cou
• Guest_4238 : ok so what's up with this bullcrap site full of promises like "ooh we'll be releasing the product soon"?
• rotex : what ia the cost of the piano encyclopedia
• iNeedHelp : anyone willing tohelp me find a song?
• iNeedHelp : hello
• Rod : Hi Trish! Thanks for the support we would love to have you as a beta-tester! To stay tuned with the dev news and receive a beta-tester invitation as soon as it's ready, please sign-up here: «link» . Also, I have received your email too , so I'll contact you earlier for the focus groups and early releases we'll be trying with smaller groups. Thanks! Stay in touch!
• Guest_3874 Trish : I love learning new things and would be pleased to be a tester. I will soon let you know if i am losing interest! I am guessing you need to know that the programme is good for all stages and ages. I will (hopefully) be a good constructive critic for you. What do i need to do to sign up?
• Rod : As you might have read, all the chords and examples on The Piano Encyclopedia come with interactive Keyboard animations that will show you what keys to play on the piano, so you'll be able to listen and able to reproduce the harmony examples yourself even without having music reading skills . Are you looking to become a beta-tester!? Stay in touch and thanks for stopping by!
• Rod : Hi Trish! I am sure The Piano Encyclopedia will come in handy for you! If you already can easily play melodies on your right hand, then it will much easier for you, you must just add the right chords and you'll be beginning composing your first song! :wink:- And as you might know, improvisation is like "composing in very short time", so once you get the basics, you'll be able to color you melodies on the fly with a nice harmony and understand why other songs sound so 'good'.
• Trish : Hi first time visitor. Mature student proud owner of a new Clavinova keyboard who can't read music but can pick out melodies very easily on the right hand, wants very much to learn to play by ear, adding chords to the melodies i can play. I learn visually by observing & copying have you tested your encyclowhatsit on anyone who learns in this way?
• Rod : make sure to send me an email, so that we stay in contact too!
• Rod : By the way
• Dixon :
• Rod : Will be looking forward to talking to you again :)!
• Rod : Wow! That's really cool having a software developer as a beta-tester
• Dixon : sounds good to me! good chatting with ya. Look forward to the email!
• Dixon : I'm part of the team behind www.podcastspot. com
• Rod : As you might have read, The Piano Encyclopedia is divided into many components, and are almost finished releasing a new tool that's awesome! We haven't even told about it in the blog, so we kind of want to keep it secret for our email members list and let them be the first to try it out!
• Dixon : Awesome! I'm also a software developer by trade so maybe I can test in ways other ppl might not be able to
• Rod : We'll be releasing a very interesting a very interesting module of The Piano Encyclopedia surely in less than a month!
• Rod : We're all very excited about this development, and been working really hard during the last two months! We've been polishing up many of the features and creating new modules, and as we have been expanding the product we have pushed the release date a bit further But it's looking REAL good! So we're very excited!
• Dixon : btw, my name is actually spelled dic_kson but your system doesn't like it..i can't even put in my email
• Dixon : Any ETA date for beta testing?
• Dixon : Well I was fooling around with improvisation on the piano earlier and then i thought of you guys and decided to check up on you.
• Rod : Nice to find one of our members online
• Rod : How are you!?
• Dixon : Hey Rod!
• Rod : Hi Dixon!
• Dixon : I've been waiting for some time now :/
• Dixon : Hey, when is the piano encyclopedia coming out?
• Rod : Hi! Even if no one is online feel free to leave messages or questions, they will be answered by any of the member of our community asap! Cheers! Rod
• Guest_984 : :twisted: :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: :arrow:
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• Guest_3190 : hi is there
• Guest_3190 : hi
• Rod : ... and Page 2 of "Requiem for a Dream" score: «link» . Stay in touch and tell me more about you!
• Rod : Hi Smiley Face, Here is the score for "Requiem for a Dream". Enjoy Page 1: «link»
• Rod : Hi guitar player! Sure give it a try, put the chords and we'll see if anyone can figure out the chord progression for you Many pianists and musicians come around... Stay in touch
• Smiley Face : PLs If anyone has the notes for ``Requem for a dream`` let`s send them at this e-mail «email»
• Guest_2440 : hey i have a question if someone can help me out with some chords.. im a guitar player but i was wondering if anyone can tell the chords progression of this one song?
• Rod : Hi! Feel free to leave a comment or question here or on the blog: «link» ! Cheers!
• vionyptorry : Hello my friends
• 123 : hi
• Rod : Hi! We're expanding some sections and adding new content so that's why the release date got delayed. We're almost 80%/90% finished! . So make sure to sign-up to the mailing list (here: «link» )to keep up with the latest news about the beta-testing release and the focus group -indeed- we'll giving away some free copies! Stay in touch and make sure to tell me more about you!
• Guest_4482 : hi everybody... i need free get the piano encyclopeia... please.. i need to learn
• Joy : does anyone know where i can get free piano sheet music prints for the song Only Hope by mandy moore?
• Rod : Hi! Make sure to leave your question even if no one is online at the moment, so that they can see it later . Stay in touch!
• Guest_2412 : good night all
• Guest_2412 : i could use some advice on my playing skills
• Guest_2412 : i am looking forward to talking to al you pps later
• Guest_2412 : well i dont think anyone else is online
• Guest_2412 : i was looking for my messages and i had the screen scrolled all the way down....
• Guest_2412 : ok i fugured it out
• Guest_2412 : im confused.... im not sure if im working this right
• Guest_2412 :
• Guest_2412 : gtyj
• Guest_2412 : beginner/expert here
• Guest_2412 : hi all
• Turlocculturo : Hallo everybody! I want say, that for you good site, successes to you
• Turlocculturo : Hallo everybody! I want say, that for you good site, successes to you
• Turlocculturo : Hallo everybody! I want say, that for you good site, successes to you
• Rod : ...wow.. my post came out quite long Well, I hope you enjoyed my story about my piano learning experience. Raph make sure to stay in touch and tell me more about you By the way, where are you from? Cheers!
• Rod : Luckily, all the musicians, developers, and content-writers of our team, all share this vision of changing changing piano learning, and making accesible all this information in an easy and interactive way. So Raph, I am very much looking forward for you to try out The Piano Encyclopedia and I hope you experience the same chill many of us have felt after discovering all these simple but very powerful knowledge that changed our vision of music. Make sure to let me know more about you!
• Rod : And Raph, I am not talking about miraclous stuff, I am talking about music basics that for me and many others have opened a whole new path to music, such as harmonizing a scale, or even discovering the relation between chords, scales, and dissonant and consonnant intervals- and even most teachers don't know this!. So at the end of the conversation I even asked him "Why is it that so few music players know these simple powerful concepts?". And he said 'Because the way it's taught, Rod.',
• Rod : You know what? I was actually talking about a very similar topic with one of our team'; new developers, who also has a deep music background as a player and composer with many years of experience. So I shared my story with him, for the first time, maybe more detailed -but with the same ideas as I told you- and we discovered that we both shared many things in common: how some simple things opened new doors for us.
• Rod : I am now able to compose my own music pieces and songs, to just sit on the piano and improvise, or even look at the pieces I used to play from a whole different angle. I can now actually *understand* what is behind the notes... it's even sometimes easy to predict what chord comes next in a pop song for example. So all these times I asked myself why I haden't had the chance of learning all these before, after 14 years of piano playing.
• Rod : Hi Raph! Thanks for telling me more about you . I completely understand what you mean as I spent many years with lessons and no real progress myself. I would spend months reading and practicing new pieces, without any real path, and not learning anything really new in each new lesson. And that was just a couple of years ago -until everything changed when I met a teacher, which taught me some simple but very powerful music concepts, that really changed my piano life completely.
• Raph : Hey Rod! I've been playing piano for quite a while. The lessons never seemed to make sense to me, and I REALLY want this to be the breakthrough I've been looking for!
• Raph : Hey Rod! I've been playing piano for quite a while. tH
• Rod : Regarding the free 25 copies, I haven't had time to update the blog... yet! But so to give you a sneak-peak- we're planning to run a contest were 25 winners will get a free copy of The Piano Encyclopedia 8-). I'll tell you more about that soon ;). First, please tell me more about you! How long ago do you play the piano, and what are you most interested in?! Thanks, and stay in touch!
• Rod : Hi Raph! It makes me really happy to know that the people that have signed-up when we just started our site are still together with us! . We're now almost finishing the development! It's a lot of work, a lot of writing, editing, programming, and designing! But we're all very excited as it's getting better each week!
• Raph : Hey Rod, as you probably guessed, my name is Raph and I want to get acquainted with you.
• Raph : Hey, I signed up for this many months ago and I am dying to get that copy!
• Guest_3302 : anyone heard of siegling pianos?
• Guest_3302 : anyone know about siegling pianos?
• DrinaVotoKano : Hello! Excellent site! Searched a long ago
• Rod : Hi Jessika! Welcome in! Tell me more about you, do you play piano!? Stay in touch
• Weleactipap : Hello. Let's get acquainted! My name is Jessika.
• Rod : I've got some BIG NEWS to share with you : we'll be giving away 25 copies of the full Piano Encyclopedia Product. Yes, you heard right! 25 people will get the Full-featured complete copy of the ready-to-sell product for FREE. You want to know more? Stay tuned and Sign-up to our newsletter now and I'll make sure you get all the juicy details soon: «link» . Cheers!
• Rod : Good News! We've just updated the technology of our Piano Community Room! We should now have about zero Spam, but better yet- we've added an RSS Feed so that you can now follow-up the piano community chat conversations too! This is fresh new, so please let us now if you experience any problems, and if so, write us to «email»! Stay tuned for more news about The Piano Encyclopedia developement- as we're getting close to the release date!!!
• Rod : Hi Lea! Believe me, The Piano Encyclopedia won't disappoint you, we're are creating a unique piano-learning experience for mastering composing, improvising, and piano-playing! To be one of the first to try it out, you can sign-up to our newsletter (here: «link» ), and we'll be sending out the invitations so you can try out the beta version VERY soon! Stay in touch!
• lea : hii!! well this program sounds pretty amazing, but there is anyway i can get the beta version???, It sounds liek it willb e a success and love to buy it but wanna try it first lol... thanksss¿¿??
• lea : hi!!!
• Rod : Welcome! We'd be glad to listen to your piano-related questions and help you in whatever we can. We've been developing many exciting features for The Piano Encyclopedia, so make sure you check them out too: «link» . Stay in touch and tell me more about you.
• Guest_337 : hello, I don't know if this will be the best place to chat about a piano that I have. If not, can you please direct me to the appropriate place.
• Rod : We're about to release The Piano Encyclopedia real soon, so make sure sign-up to our newsletter (here: «link» ) as we'll be sending a limited number of invitations to the ones that want to be one of the first to try it out before it goes public. Gaiz, stay in touch and make sure to tell me more about you!
• Rod : Welcome Gaiz! If you're looking for a unique piano-learning experience, full with interactive animations, piano-recordings , and lessons that will take your piano skills to the next level -as well as letting you master composing and improvising -you've come to the right place!
• qaiz : any one could suggest me a right book with piano lessons learning
• qaiz : music is life and playing music in a right way means making your soul feel good
• Rod : Hi Sarit! Welcome! You might leave any composing question you have here and we or the visitors will try to answer it. If not, you can just wait a couple of weeks until the release of The Piano Encyclopedia! Stay in touch and make sure to tell me more about you!
• Musicgirl : I am sorry it coming apart my message..
• Musicgirl : and wanted to ask if there is any way to get on this site help with composing?
• Musicgirl : Hey guys my name is Sarit and I am from Israel
• Choice : Yeahhh
• Rod : Hi! We'll be surely releasing this March 2008!!! So stay tight until we publish the exact release date! If you haven't subscribed to our newsletter make sure you do it soon: «link» . There is no risk and you may unsubscribe whenever you want, but if you don't sign-up, you'll never know what you're missing! Cheers!
• Guest_600 : So when do you think this software will be released?
• Guest_510 : We were talking about this software.
• Guest_3406 : what are u guys talking about
• Guest_4997 : Your welcome
• Rod : Make sure to stay in touch and thanks for stopping by
• Rod : I'm glad -we're all very excited into launching this
• Rod : If you haven't - Make sure to check out the new features that we've developed at «link» -we're getting cool stuff in!-, and as always, feedback and suggestions are very welcome!
• Guest_3476 : No, that works but when I tried to download it it couldn't got to go
• Guest_3476 : Thanks! about the download too! Can't wait!!!
• Rod : the link does not work?
• Guest_3476 : Thanks! but for some reason it did not work on my computer.
• Rod : We will- but as soon as we pass the beta stage :D. All the people that will have invitations will be able to be part of this beta stage and propose any changes or adjustments they would like -so as to customize the product for the piano community's needs. Once we finish with that, we'll have a normal download trial version button as well as the free version download
• Rod : I recommend you this page: «link» . You'll surely find the Beethoven score
• Guest_3476 : Huh?
• Rod : Regarding the score...
• Guest_3476 : Well all I will need is the trial version can't you just have a download trial version button on your website?
• Rod : Yes you may unsubscribe at anytime -we send very few emails just to let our people know the big news
• Guest_3476 : I do not need to be the first but do I still need to sign up?
• Guest_3476 : Great! But do I have to join your mailing list to get the free version?
• Rod : If you want to be one of the first to try it out, you must sign-up to our newsletter here «link» as we'll be sending exclusive invitations to try out The Piano Encyclopedia
• Rod : We're about to finish the development and we'll be launching ends of February or March -we'll put a date soon.
• Guest_3476 : Do I have to have an email address to get the free software?
• Rod : Although we're planning to make the paid one have much more features, for the people that want to support all the musicians, developers, and people involved in this project!
• Guest_3476 : Where can I download it from?
• Rod : Yes! Of course, and there is also going to be a completely FREE version
• Guest_3476 :
• Guest_3476 : would I?
• Rod : Hi!
• Guest_3476 : Would I be able to download a trial version of this for free?
• Guest_3476 : Hi! do you know a website that has the fingerings and sheet music for Betthovens fur elise?
• Guest_3476 : how much is this piano stuff?
• Rod : Make no mistake; this is the first time a Chord Dictionary, Scale Dictionary, Interval Dictionary, and Harmony Dictionary have been combined into just one product -and interactively explaining the relationships between each of these components. So if you want to be one of the first to try it out, sign-up to our mailing list here: «link» . Stay in touch!
• Rod : Hi Eloise! We'll be releasing a FREE version! Why?! We're certain to be developing a unique piano learning experience and we want everyone to enjoy it and try it out. Then, as well, we'll be launching a more complete version with added features for all the enthusiastic users that wish to support the developers, musicians, and all the people involved in this project!
• eloise davis : do we have to pay for this book?
• Rod : If you haven't yet, make sure to check out the features we've developed at «link» and -as always- feedback and suggestions are more than welcome. Make sure to stay in touch and tell me more about you!
• Rod : Hi Danny! If you can wait until the end of this month, sign-up to our newsletter here «link» -we'll be sending out exclusive invitations so you can be one of the first to try out The Piano Encyclopedia. You'll get interactive keyboard diagrams of all the piano scales, including all the info you need to master piano playing, composing, and improvising. Believe me, you won't find a Piano Scale Dictionary as complete as this one!
• Guest_3125 : Thanks,
• Guest_3125 : I'm wanting to get a downloadable file, for the piano, of scales, that includes the fingering. Please give me a suggestion of what site I can find this in.
• Guest_3125 : I'm looking for a downloadable file of scales, that has the fingering for both hands. It must be for the piano. Please let me know what site I could get this from.
• Rod : ... and Requiem for a Dream Page 2: «link» . Hope they're useful. Stay in touch! Cheers
• Rod : Hi Monstarz! Looks like it's your lucky day I just happen to have printed those out a few weeks ago. Requiem For a Dream Score, Page 1: «link»
• MonStArZ : PLEASE HELP!!! IT IS VERY IPORTANT!!! DO SOMEBODY HAS NOTES FOR REQUIEM FOR THE DREAM? PLEASE, SEND ME!!! THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
• music : What do you mean ?
• Rod : Hi Dougie! You're Poynter from the British band McFly? It's an honor to have you guys here! We have some great news, so make sure you check the new features we've developed at: «link» . As always, feedback and suggestions are very welcome. Stay in touch!
• Rod : Hi Far! Thanks so much for your kind words. Tell me more about you and stay in touch! Where are you from? Feedback is always very welcome and we're always open to suggestions and new feature requests! Cheers!
• dougie poynter :
• dougie poynter : MCFLY
• dougie poynter : iam from the band mcfly
• dougie poynter : hey dudes
• dougie poynter : here dudes....
• far : My mother language is not english, but I'll try to follow the lessons and indications the best I can.
• far : I celebrate finding this web, think its a very good idea for those who like piano and would like to learn or improve.
• Rod : We have just updated the blog with the new developed features- as promised! Check it out: «link»
• Rod : Hi! . Feel free to leave any messages, we'll read them afterwards! If you're looking for an invitation to be one of the first to try The Piano Encyclopedia as soon as it's launched, sign-up to our newsletter here: «link» . Cheers!
• 02 : hi
• Rod : Hi *Music*! Tell me more about yourself and stay in touch
• music : very interesting. i'm adding in RSS Reader
• Rod : Hi Richard! We'll be working this following week on updating the live shoutbox chat to filter spam more efficiently. Thanks for the suggestions, we'll consider implementing a discussion forum. Stay in touch!
• richard : it would be nice if you guys made a discussion forum here, eh? who wants to see this spam about credit cards and such anyway..?
• Rod : Jenna! I am glad to see you back To become a beta tester for the public beta release you just need to subscribe to the newsletter. We'll be sending limited invitations close to the release date :wink:. However if you'd like to be part of the early private beta testing send me an email. Stay in touch! Happy New year!
• Rod : Hi Luka! I am sure this software and the community features we're building will really help you progress much faster! Stay in touch and tell me more about you! Happy new year :)!
• Jenna : I mean that do I have to do something else than subscribe?
• Jenna : So if I want to become a beta tester what do I need to do? (I missed that part)
• Luka : ups didn't want to send yet...anyway I just wanted to say, that I'm really looking forward to awesome project of yours. I'm playing piano for about 2,5years. And I practice for at least 3 hours per day but I don't know how to practice properly so hopefuly this is the place for me. I also want to learn how to write down music, but I'm having problems with rythm...so yeah hopefuly this will help. Btw Happy new year to you too
• Luka : Hi,
• Rod : Happy New Year to everybody!!!! We'll be taking vacations until around the first weeks of January! Please leave your messages and I'll read them afterwards! However, maybe I'll answer some sooner if I can! In the name of the whole The Piano Encyclopedia Team: Happy New Year!!!
• Rod : Make sure you sign-up to our newsletter -soon- if you want to be one of the first ones to try it out, as we'll be releasing a limited number of invitations!
• Rod : Then we plan to release an extended version with add-ons for the more enthusiastic users, so as to support all people involved in this project.
• Rod : Hi Jenna! Yes this project is taking us lots of time, months and months of development, and many people involved, software developers, professionals musicians, content writers, and more! However we're going to release a FREE version because we really want to make something different from everything that currently exists for piano learning, and we want everyone to enjoy it.
• Rod : However, we're also expecting to have a private beta release much sooner before the public beta with selected subscribers, and considering your background maybe it could be interesting having you involved in that too. Write me an email at «email» if you're interested.
• Rod : In respect to the beta's estimate release date we expect that to happen in late February, and we're working really hard to see if we can make it sooner.
• Rod : Hi Richard! You got a very interesting background, I love Chopin too, as you say it, his music is very intense and conveys many different feelings.
• Jenna : How can this be free? I mean this must take much of your time and you don't charge anything
• richard : oh and can I also ask for estamite release date on the beta?
• Guest_1074 : Is there anyone online?
• Rod : Happy Christmas! . Feel free to leave messages, I'll read them as soon as I get back.
• Rod : Hi Richard! Thanks so much for your input, all the team is now away for Christmas. I'll get back to you as soon as possible.
• Guest_412 :
• Guest_412 : HABLAN ESPANOL
• Guest_412 : HELLO
• Guest_412 : hola
• Guest_412 :
• richard : oh yeah, last 3 posts made by me!forgot to write me name..
• Guest_1069 : n wasn't really good so I started workin on chopin etudes and some 3-4 years later i could play most of them.So I'm a bit of a freak with the ability to play advanced music but almost no understanding of theory..I usually play by ear, listen from cd's to what i want to learn and then get notes and decypher them.lately i got a digital piano(clavinova clp-280) and been lookin into scriabin's preludes..intens e music!
• Guest_1069 : while we're at it let me propose that these dictionaries have sections with exercises and maybe tests aswell..from what i know those two are essential at retaining learnt material..?!more about me..well , dunno what to say really..i started playing by myself at 14(i'm 27 now), mostly classical music..then after struggling to find the type of music i like, i discovered that chopin was the only music that satisfied me, fascinated at how he did both beautiful and dark music..my technique back the
• Rod : We'll cover concepts such as harmonic rhythm, that are necessary for composing and improvising, and we may even show examples of how this works in popular songs. But the idea of having a dictionary specifically for rhythm and timing could be a good idea too!