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Guest_1164 : how to play maybe im amazed piano
Honorio : Hi, i'm from nicaragua, i'd like a web in english for us latinos greetings and happy new year
Honorio : Hi, i'm from nicaragua, i'd like a web in english for us latinos greetings and happy new year
Rod : We'll be going off for vacations till January 7th! Happy New Year to everyone!!! Leave your messages and we'll get them answered after our break!
Rod : Hi Pianissimo!!!! It's so GREAT to hear back from you again! I was actually going to email you as I haden't heard from you in a while. I hope your parents are now ok and to hear back from you soon. Let's stay in touch, and we'll stay in touch also by email too. Take care! And I hope you start a wonderful new year!
Pianissimo! : ROD!!! Long time no see please excuse my absence I was pretty busy lately had both parents in hospital I'll be back as soon as I have spare time in my hands:D Regards
Rod : I have just published a new blog post with updated news, telling everything about the new Real-World Practical Chapters -in detail. Even more, I am also sharing with you a list of *music secrets* hoping to give you a 'big picture' of how music works! I hope you agree it's worth the waiting! In the name of the whole team, THANKS to everyone for your words of support and encouragement; and we wish a happy Christmas and Hanukkah!
Rod : Hi Older_Men_Person al! Thanks!!! Let's stay in touch! Cheers!
Rod : Hi Jackoucky! Thank you very much and I am really glad you enjoyed our Music Fundamentals eBook! Make sure to stay in touch and tell me more about you! Cheers! Rod
Rod : Hi idra! Thanks for the heads up! Yes, it should say "(or one note less than a *Major* Third Interval), we'll be fixing that in a minute. Feel free to download the eBook tomorrow again to get the updated version! Thanks and make sure to tell me more about you! Stay in touch, cheers!
Older_Men_Personal : I'll bookmark your site! Keep it up.
Older_Men_Personal : Enjoyed your site very much. Thank you!
Jackoucky : Seldom I write comments but resource really cool
idra : I think is wrong
idra : Minor Third Interval = two notes separated by 3 Half-tones (or one note less than a Minor Third Interval) Minor Chord = Perfect Fifth + Minor Third Interval (or build up a Minor chords and lower the third one note)
idra : and Minor Chord = Perfect Fifth + Minor Third Interval (or build up a Minor chords and lower the third one note)
idra : Minor Third Interval = two notes separated by 3 Half-tones (or one note less than a Minor Third Interval)
idra : Check page 92 of encyclopedia fundamental is written:
Rod : Hi Cres! It's great to see you around . We'll be posting news during the day Stay in touch! Cheers!
Cres : Hi Rod! Great to hear that the main lessons are almost done. I'm looking forward to your news
Lån Penge : Just testing.... neat shoutbox
Guest_2002 : Does anyone know of a website where I could possibly download Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto no.3 for free?
Shy_Guy : ! 8-)) Keep up a good work!
Shy_Guy : It is pretty! 8-)) Keep up a good work!
Rod : I have good news for everyone, the Piano Encyclopedia's Main Lessons are almost finished! I'll be posting great news in the next few days!
Rod : Hi Jess! Feel free to leave any messages and tell me more about you! Stay in touch
Rod : Español! Siiii! Yes we plan to translate it into Spanish next year! Stay in touch (Planeamos traducirla al español el año que viene. Mantenete en contacto. Saludos!!! )
Rod : Hi Guest4598! I really understand completely what you mean. I've been there too, making up a song in my head but having no clue on how to play it on the piano. Guessing which chords go well and not being able to get them right, loosing track, and forgetting everything -really frustrating. Luckily with just very simple but powerful concepts you'll see how everything comes together! Knowing in which scale your new tune is, you'll be able to figure out which chords to play with your left hand; and knowing which chords to play, you'll be able to know with which notes you can use embellish your current melody. I wish I had learned all these concepts ten years ago! You can't imagine how many years of endless frustration I would have saved! The harmonization of the scales, and how chords and scales relate together is the KEY, so once you get that concepts, you'll be able to easily play anything you want Let me share one trick with you: every scale can be harmonized with just 7 basic chords! You can then enrich your harmony, but the trick is tha you don't need to know 4000 chords to make good music, and that's it not guesswork! Once you to understand how a the simple concept of seeing music as creating tension and release works, with your chords and scales, you'll be creating your music in no time. I look foward to knowing more about you, and good news is that the Main Piano Encyclopedia lessons are almost ready, showing everything you're looking forward to learn, and explaining step-by-step how to master composition, improvisation, and understanding music! Stay in touch, Rod
Guest_731 : hi there
RaroSwemwer : Hi! My name is Jessika!
Guest_4598 : looking forward to this. Im really looking for something that can helpe me get my ideas out FAST. You see i LOVE MAKING MUSIC, but when i try to put down the song in my head, I take so long figuring out the chords that i forget what i was thinking about
Guest_2220 : la enciclopedia , no esta en español ????????????
Guest_950 : hello
Cres : Have a great day you too. Bye bye
Cres : Have a great day you too. Bye bye
Rod : Thanks! bye have a great day!
Cres : Ok. Yes, lets stay in touch. Talk to you soon. Good luck with the meeting
Rod : Have a great day! and thanks for stopping by! :D
Rod : Hey Cres, I should get back to our meeting. Let's stay in touch, and talk soon. Keep my email: «email»
Rod : That's good
Rod : We neither, it has been lots and lots of work. But we're all really excited!
Cres : No, not yet. I don't move until early next year.
Cres : Ok, Good to hear that thing is progressing well. Can't wait to see the result
Rod : Did you finally move?
Rod : Everything is great! It's lots of work but it's looking awesome, so we're really happy with the results!
Cres : I'm good thank you. Yes, I drop by this site from time to time How's everything?
Rod : I am actually in the middle of a meeting, we're finishing the practical chapters for our lessons, but just wanted to say hi.
Rod : Hey! how are you? I saw you were online :D. It's great to see you around.
Cres : Hi Rod. yes, I'm here. How are you?
Rod : Are you there?
Rod : Hello Cres!
Rod : Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! I hope everyone had a great time, and I am glad to tell you that we have made an incredible progress in the last few weeks, and the Official Piano Encyclopedia Lessons are almost DONE! :D I'll be posting an update real soon Cheers!
Rod : Hola! It's nice to have people from Spain! Let me know more about you and let's stay in touch.
Rod : Hi Jess! I am glad you're enjoying our First Piano Lesson Report!
Rod : Hi Hamid! Thank you so much for leaving a comment. It's highly appreciatd I am glad you're finding Music Fundamentals really useful Regarding "Music loves sound" I definetely agree! That's why the core lessons that we're developing include sound, piano recordings, and interactive animations! So if you liked this, this is just the beginning You may want to read this post so to make sure you're not missing anything: «link» . Hamid, let's stay in touch, and I am open to all your suggestions and feedback. How many years have you been playing piano? Make sure to let me know more about you! Cheers!
Guest_1667 : Hola, hablo desde España
JessicaLynn : It is pretty! :-)) Keep up a good work!
hamid elyahyaoui : Rod thank you for sending me your first piano lesson report. it is uesful, practical and helpful.if you could adding some execises and midi files exemples to your nice work this will make it more interesting(musi c loves sound isn't it?).I'm a physician, i live in Morroco, i like good music and piano is my favorit instrument
Sam : Hello everybody!
Rod : Hi! Feel free to leave any messages here or on the blog
Guest_3647 : hey rod.
Rod : Hi Hadi! Thanks for asking . In our last mail we sent you the Music Fundamentals Report + a Piano Chart Booklet. Now, the Piano-Charts Bonus Booklet that we're giving away is actually different from the one that came with Music Fundamentals. It's a booklet with ALL the common interval's piano charts in every key, so that you'll be to play creating your own chords on any key. We'll keep giving away more free stuff in the following weeks and have the new Community open probably in the following 2 weeks or less! Make sure you stay in touch and let me know more about you! Thanks
hadi : i am getting a bit lost between what was published and was not...is the report different than the music fundementals that we recieved by email?
Rod : This Thursday 16th I'll be telling you more about the Bonus Piano Charts that will be coming your way soon to all those that reserved their copy of the Piano Lesson Report early or have subscribed to our Community's VIP List! I am sure that everyone will enjoy the bonus piano charst now much better after having read the whole report
Rod : Hi Troy and Jessika! Make sure you leave a message here or on the blog, so in that way, myself or anybody else can answer your messages Stay in touch and tell me more about you!
Rod : Let's stay in touch and thanks for all your support!
Rod : However, let me give you sneak peek into what's coming next. Soon will open the community and you'll get to experience the "Interactive" version of the Piano Lesson Report One In this way, we'll make all the upcoming reports in both pdf and interactive format with sounds and animations, so you'll be able to follow along all the examples on the computer Stay tuned and I'll keep you updated, we'll have many new things going on during the several next weeks . Let's stay in to
Rod : Hi Cres! It's so great to read messages from you again ! I am so glad you enjoyed the report! In regards to how often we'll release the reports, that will vary depending on the reports length, but we'll try to keep releasing them as soon as we can . However let me tell you that some of the wonderful comments and word s of apreciattion that we've received really makes us want to start writing the second one soon and give away more stuff!
ingemnamn : Hi! My name is Jessika!
Troy : hey
Troy : hey
Troy : hello
Troy : could i get someone to talk pianos with me?
Troy : hello
Cres : Hi! Out of curiosity, is there any timeframe for how often these reports will be released? Twice a monts, once a month, once every second month? I have read through the first report twice, and it was sooo full of interesting and useful information. Thank you!
Rociasmamymox : Hello. The images were released to celebrate the arrival on Monday of Emma Tallulah, the couple's third daughter. Bye.
Rod : Thanks everyone for the wonderful comments on the blog, and the emails we've received. I'll answer EACH of your messages soon! If you haven't posted a message on our blog, please let us know what you think of our first Piano Lesson Report by posting a comment here: «link» Thanks to everyone!
Rod : UPDATE: We've made an important update to the Piano Lesson Report One! Make sure you get the LATEST copy by downloading the report again now, by going to the same download link that was provided to your email. Thanks so much, and I hope you truely enjoy it! Please make sure to leave me your comments after you finish reading it, here : «link»
Rod : Hi Shindoh! Thanks for all your support! I hope that you're truely enjoying the Piano Lesson Report One!
Shindoh : I hope You and Your website will become really famous and well known with this website and project!
Shindoh : Guys, You are amazing!
Rod : It really has been a lot lot of work, span over several weeks, to finish this report, so we hope that you truely enjoy it, and that you are able to get a new understanding of how intervals, chords, and scales work together. After you receive it, make sure to leave us some feedback on the blog Thanks!
Rod : As promised, now being October 5th at 4pm the Lesson Report One has been released! We have already sent all the reports to all subscribers emails, so you should receive yours shortly. Read more about his here: «link» If you haven't received your copy yet, don't panic, the report is already on its way Given the amount of subscribers emails take from 2 minutes to 2-3 hours. It really has been a lot contin
Dan : hey. isn't this a great site?
Rod : Hi! Thanks for leaving a message, you may contact me at «email» Cheers!
Innodssersnut : How i may contact admin this site? I have a question. iijiivei
Rod : Meanwhiles.. Check out the VIDEO PREVIEW we posted on our blog so you can get a super sneak peek into Sunday's first Piano Lesson Report. Check it out: «link» Stay in touch, we'll talk soon!
Rod : Hi Cres and Pianissimo!!! I'll get back to you soon..
Weujsiyi : Cool site goodluck
Pianissimo! : tend to get the best of me:P
Pianissimo! : Hello all!! I have to agree with cres The Bosendorfer 290 is one amazing instrument so warm in tone and but it kills me a little bit inside to say that It cannot be compared to a normal steinway D I do not know why but steinways
Kqvuoswh : Good crew it's cool
Cres : Yes, i prefer to use my Grand Piano sampler when I'm playing the Piano, even though the piano has good on-board sounds as well. The Bosendorfer 290 is currently my favorite as far as soundsampling go. I hope I will be able to participate in your Beta-test when that starts! btw where are you from Rod and Pianissimo?
Cres : Yes, I hope to buy the same, or at least nearly the same, piano. I will be travelling to Australia from my home country Norway. My message about the transport got cut off for some reason. What I was meant to say at the end there was that I will of course send my computer in pieces. It is safest that way
Cres : Hi Rod and Pianissimo! Yes, I am SOOO happy I don't have a Grand Piano now
Rod : Thanks for everything and stay in touch! I'll be expecting your mail
Rod : Hi Ehynious! Thanks so much for your interest. You could be of a lot of help in the testing having programming knowledge. The Beta-Testing is private for now (close family and friends) but we'll be opening the Beta-Testing to Public very soon- especially the testing of our new community site (aprox 3 weeks) It would be great if you could email me at «email» so we can keep closely in touch, you could tell me more about you, and I could let you into the first public tests
Erhynious : the beta tester, are protected, i need a pasword... how i get the pasword? cant i try nothing...
Erhynious : Hi People, I'm venezuelan keyboardist, I dont speak english too good, but i love the piano, keyboard, synth... and the computer software to try more keyboard study, I wanna testing your software for give my opinion... thanks, take care
Erhynious : Hi People, I'm venezuelan keyboardist, I dont speak english really good, but i love the piano and the computer programming, I wanna testing your software for give my opinions and my recommendations.
Daniel : hey everyone! isn't this a great web site?
Rod : Hi Aaaron! I visited your MySpace! It's really nice. I read that you want to become an orchesta director? That sounds awesome. Do you play piano already? I would love to hear more about you and stay tuned as on October 5th we'll be releasing the first Piano Lesson Report!!!
Rod : I second Pianissimo Just curious.. Where are you heading? And yes... probably computer is a good idea to keep. There are many great samplers software around too
Rod : Hi everyone!!! Hey Cres, how are you?! Well I guess I would say you're lucky not to have a non-digital piano. That would be even harder to transport too. And I guess that the good part of that is you'll know that if you replace it with one of the same brand, it will sound exactly the same I hope that you're able to get your piano back real soon once you get there. I really suffer without a piano
Pianissimo! : Hello all:D Yes Cres I would personally asume that it would cost you alot to transport it but if the piano was worth it then go ahead! May I be rude to ask where you will be travelling too?
aaron : delkaronn
aaron : plz add me on myspace
aaron : i'm aaron
Guest_545 : hi everyone!
Cres : Hi. I have a bit of the same problem. I will most likely be moving to almost the other side of earth next year, and I have no idea what to do with my 88-key digital piano. It's big and heavy. Something tells me it will be so expensive to transport it, that I might as well sell it, and buy a new one locally at my new place. The same thing goes for my computer, which contain software with wonderful Grand Piano sounds, but the computer is so powerful, it might be best to have that transported. In
Rod : Ok, it's great to be in touch with you again! Thanks! Keep in touch!
Pianissimo! : Oh yes far away well I have to go now but without doubt I will be back and love the youtube video amazing:D! Goodbye :mrgreen:
Rod : And do you have to sell it? Why don't you take it with you? ... or are you moving far away?
Pianissimo! : Oh I'm going to be selling my keyboard cause I will be moving out but once I go back home I will retake piano lessons again!
Rod : .. regarding any new pieces.. I actually begun a new waltz .. but lately I am much into improvising and getting back the time lost
Rod : I haven't been with a piano for more than two weeks... they were painting our living so I almost got crazy during the past weeks! I actually started using Finale.. but now I have my piano again.. You can't imagine how happy I am !
Pianissimo! : how are you doing any new pieces yet:D?
Pianissimo! : yea it will!
Rod : This will actually come in handy, when we release the first report so that people can ask questions
Rod : Also.. we made some changes to the blog layout, so people can post comments and follow along more easily!
Rod : Yes.. I know... I actually didn't know where to start... but I think we made a great progress. I glad that enjoyed everything!
Rod : Very well! I am actually really excited that we updated the blog with all the news, and that we started to put official dates. I am really happy
Pianissimo! : Oh everything is fine I see alot of improvement in the website and some of it was 8O 8O 8O!
Rod : It's great to meet you again, long time we don't meet! How's everything going? :D
Pianissimo! : How have you been doing!
Rod : Hi Pianisiimo!!!!!! !
Rod : Hi Ehrynious! Not yet... that's for some private beta-testing we've been doing with close family and friends . However, we'll open the Public beta testing real soon, so stay tuned for updates, but even better on October 5th we'll be releasing the first Piano Lesson Report full of content! So stay in touch and tell me more about you!
Pianissimo! : :mrgreen:
Pianissimo! : Finally we meet again!!!
Pianissimo! : RODDDDD
Erhynious : I'm very interested in trying your product and just wanted to know
Erhynious : Hi guys, Rod!! Everybody... protected beta testers? why? i need a pasword?? where i get find that?
Rod : I now remember! You have emailed me before, and you were from Uruguay. Rodolfo, it's great to hear back from you! How is everything going? Stay in touch!
Rod : Hi Rodolfo! Yes I totally agree... Chord Dictionaries are really useful for starting out In the first Piano Lesson Report we'll cover all the basic chords and provide many piano chord and interval charts! So stay tuned and make sure to tell me more about you! Cheers!
Rodolfo Araujo : I think a Chord distionary is the most useful to begin enjoy playing music. At leas it is for me. It's easy to find partitures with chord names, but not indicating the keys that must be pressed to hear them. So, this is my vote.
Rod : As promised! We have just announced the exact release date of the First Piano Lesson Report! Make sure you get a sneak peak into what the first Piano Lesson Report will cover right here: «link» Cheers!
Rod : The next blog update will be tomorrow Friday 19th at 20:00 EST Time! We'll announce the exact release date of the first Piano Lesson Report. So stay tuned!
Rod : Hi Cres! Thanks so much for your comment! I really understand what you mean about "taking a break" and then getting back to playing. For me learning composing and understanding how music works -just a couple years ago- really changed everything for me... so I hope it does the same thing for you . We'll be announcing the release date of the first Piano Lesson Report this Friday 19th! I'd love for you to tell me more about yourself and let's keep in touch!
Rod : Hi Pianissimo! Thanks so much for your comments and support! We're all very happy about the progress we've been making!!!
Pianissimo! : It should be very helpful and it will be released very soon Cres:D
Cres : Hi, I discovered this page for a couple of weeks ago. I played the piano as a teenager, but I ended up with a 10 year "break", until I took up piano playing for about three years ago. Now I am ready to start composing, and this site looked very interesting. I have read the latest blog and can't wait to have a closer look at it, to see how helpful it will be
Pianissimo! : woohoo read it all amazing this is probably gonna be a piano revolution world wide! Finally a website about piano that actually has everything in it and helps you in every way:D
Pianissimo! : oh goodie:D
Rod : As promised! We have posted the blog update! Check it out! We have TONS of good news and PREVIEWS! «link»
Guest_3225 : exscuse me for asking but what is a interval
Pianissimo! : I'll be waiting:D
Rod : Hi Pianissimo!!! I actually missed your messages here I can't wait either, we're finishing really exciting developments, I'll be posting the next blog post with all the updates by next friday (Friday 12th) as the *latest date* - but probably sooner! Just to let everyone know... we'll now have our own community site for The Piano Encyclopedia!!! More about this shortly Cheers!
Rod : Hi Shindoh! Thanks for stopping by ! Very soon, maximum by ends of next week, we'll be releasing the first Piano Lesson Report to thank all the people that have folllowing our development. That report will contains more than fifty pages with an intro into piano playing, composing, improvisation, and learning the basic chords and intervals, with tons of graphics! So I'll make sure you get that Regarding frustration, I completely understand what you say, sometimes without the right teacher or the right method, piano can get really frustrating -and it did happen to me too- so I hope all our methods change this, and make you enjoy the wonderful world of music, composing, and improvising. Thanks for everything, and make sure to tell me more about you! Stay in touch! Rod
Guest_470 : Hello.....Hello. ...
Guest_470 : Anyone here?
Shindoh : Ah, I wasn´t done writing! - Is it possible to get into your program any time soon or just as soon as possible (I already signed up for your list with «email» )? I just want to start learning as soon as possible, I would so much love to finally be able to express myself through music with the Piano! I just don´t really know where to start and what to start with, without getting frustrated too fast...
Shindoh : Oh my god, I love Piano and basically every music style in general!
Pianissimo! : Can't wait for the beta to be out:D
Rod : Hello Manuel!!! How are you doing? Thanks for stopping by. It would be great to have your help, and your computer programming knowledge could also give us a more technical feedback that could be really useful. Regarding the language, we could speak in Spanish through email. You may contact me at «email» . In Spanish: Manuel, me encantaría poder contar con vos para el beta testing y que nos des tu feedback, por favor escribime a mi mail «email» . Saludos y espero tu mail!
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
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Guest_984 :
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