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Topic: Friedrich Burgmüller - Arabesque, Op. 100 No. 2

I've been practicing the piano some more, hopefully I've made some progress! I'm using Pianoteq 6 Stage in this video. This is K2 Prelude preset (with the reverb shortened a bit).

I posted a video of my piano playing before, and received some very helpful advice. Feel free to let me know about any technique issues I should work on.

I had some trouble with the forte legato bits. It seems when playing louder, I want to play faster as well.

https://youtu.be/3Dv4fmfPP_k

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Re: Friedrich Burgmüller - Arabesque, Op. 100 No. 2

Hello crownbird.
At first, nice to listen to K2, it is not often used. Sounds good in this piece.
Secondly, I’m not the right person to say how people should play, but I have an opinion and I like the tempo, although many people play it faster, some slower. And the way you play the ritardando is perfect to me. And the sfz, suddenly with force, is perfect too. Staccato is good.

Anyway, I think a piece like this, you can play it any way you like, making your own personal style on it.
Someone said it is one of those pieces that are easy to learn but hard to master. Well……….

All in all you play it much better than I did in the short time I took lessons when I was young. It quickly ended when I was told that I would never be a pianist. Sad. But have practiced all my life on my own and when I found Ptq in 2013 I got really interested and have learned much in this forum. So much that I can't stop recording and uploading, and still learning new things, although it takes  longer than when young 
Keep up the good work

Best wishes,

Stig

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Re: Friedrich Burgmüller - Arabesque, Op. 100 No. 2

Pianoteqenthusiast wrote:

Hello crownbird.
At first, nice to listen to K2, it is not often used. Sounds good in this piece.
Secondly, I’m not the right person to say how people should play, but I have an opinion and I like the tempo, although many people play it faster, some slower. And the way you play the ritardando is perfect to me. And the sfz, suddenly with force, is perfect too. Staccato is good.

Anyway, I think a piece like this, you can play it any way you like, making your own personal style on it.
Someone said it is one of those pieces that are easy to learn but hard to master. Well……….

All in all you play it much better than I did in the short time I took lessons when I was young. It quickly ended when I was told that I would never be a pianist. Sad. But have practiced all my life on my own and when I found Ptq in 2013 I got really interested and have learned much in this forum. So much that I can't stop recording and uploading, and still learning new things, although it takes  longer than when young 
Keep up the good work

Best wishes,

Stig

Really appreciate your feedback, thank you! Sad that your lessons ended like that, but you can certainly see that your practice on your own went well from your recordings here. Hopefully I can continue learning at a decent pace too.

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Re: Friedrich Burgmüller - Arabesque, Op. 100 No. 2

Perfect to me, too.

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Borealis wrote:

Perfect to me, too.

Thanks, glad to hear that!