LTECpiano wrote:

"my teacher said when young, I will never be a player, anything…". Well you did just fine.  Boy, could I tell you a story about one particular prima donna teacher from college days but not necessary to make my point.

Kudos,

Lanny

Lanny, my thanks and appreciation!

Hello all,

As an adolescent, my mother told me something along the same line: 

"You may as well not go into music, because you'll never be any good at it."

Although she made that horrific statement more than 50 years ago, those words felt like sledge hammers pounding me into the ground!  The words are so vivid after all of this time, because I can remember it was a Wednesday in winter time, approximately 4:30PM local time and it was getting dark.  I even remember standing outside the "piano room" when she said that.

Surely, my mother was trying to spare me from the heartache of pursuing an unsuccessful career in musical performance.  I took that as a personal challenge NOT to be a failure in the field of music.  Still, my college education included engineering so as to be able to have a career with which I could raise a family and afford a home, car and finer things of life.

Thanks for reading this far.

Cheers,

Joe

"my teacher said when young, I will never be a player, anything…". Well you did just fine.  Boy, could I tell you a story about one particular prima donna teacher from college days but not necessary to make my point.

Kudos,

Lanny

Lanny, my thanks and appreciation!

Kudos,

Lanny

Very enjoyable! Thank you, PianoteqEnthusiast.

Thanks for your kindness. I’m glad you liked it.

Pianoteqenthusiast wrote:

It is Fugue in C by Dietrich Buxtehude   <...> And the organist playing it had same tempo as me, No too fast or rushed but steady.

The performance sounds as though it is a midi file whose notes were step-entered, or was created by scanning the sheet music into a musical notation program (such as an older version of Finale) and then "playing" the resultant standard midi file and rendering the audio through a program such as Hauptwerk.

Cheers,

Joe

Hello Joe!

Thank you for your interesting answer, and your solid arguments that explain your opinion about my performance. . Compared to me you are a master, a musician, and I admire your playing (many demos) and your opinions in this forum. I’m  just an amateur, an old retired school teacher, for many years already, that began to play again 2013 when I found Pianoteq (and now Organteq).
Well, I don’t understand step enter, scanning sheet notation program finale?, render audio and such things. I’m just playing.
Here is how I did Fuge: I have Organteq in Garageband, DAW, in Mac Mini, late 2014. I play/record on track 1. I don’t have pedalboard yet, (try to afford one, and a two better keyboards some day), so on track 2 I use ”one keyboard split” and play bass with left hand afterwards, as take two. In this piece I couldn’t play as fast I wanted for the piece, so I had to increase the tempo in the DAW a bit.
I think that A) increasing tempo + B) the fact that I have very difficult to keep rhyhm (my teacher said when young, I will never be a player, anything…so I sad stopped and didnt play for years) are probably the reasons for your feeling about the music and performance.
Thank you for comment, critic is always welcome. I continue to play and try to be better. It is never too late to improve - Rubinstein gave his last concert at 89, blind! I don’t have so much time left but I love Pianoteq and Organteq. And, I never buy Hauptwerk, it’s sampled.(although sound good….)
How do you use to say,

Cheers,

Stig

It is Fugue in C by Dietrich Buxtehude   <...> And the organist playing it had same tempo as me, No too fast or rushed but steady.

The performance sounds as though it is a midi file whose notes were step-entered, or was created by scanning the sheet music into a musical notation program (such as an older version of Finale) and then "playing" the resultant standard midi file and rendering the audio through a program such as Hauptwerk.

Cheers,

Joe

It is Fugue in C by Dietrich Buxtehude   Have been a mystery for me 50 years. I'm so glad. And the organist playing it had same tempo as me, No too fast or rushed but steady.

I prefer to listen to this one with headphones because of the nice short main theme, subject, which then sounds successively in each voice. I suggest you to try it. I like this piece more and more when I hear the theme at different pitch in other voices

I hope you enjoy listening as much as I did recording it

https://forum.modartt.com/uploads.php?file=Fuge%20.mp3