Further Pianism
May. 8th, 2017 09:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
peeeeeeetI did more playing yay. I found that I can still just about stumble through some of my Grade 8 era pieces, which I wasn't expecting to. They are still blimmin hard, of course. I played a bit of Mozart and a bit of Beverley Craven. She is not a Grade 8 piece. But she has some great chords. I accidentally keep turning Mozart into the blues by doing flattened fifths when I'm not meaning to which sounds wicked amaze, he would approve no doubt. I played what I could remember of the Romeo and Juliet score I wrote for sixth form which is not a lot but luckily I have it all on MIDI somewhere.
The sustain pedal simulates a proper grand "analogue" one where you get more sustain the more you press it, whereas I think on a typical upright it's more of a binary on-off thing. This means I can now use the pedal with Mozart which before just sounded messy and horrid. So that is great. I played a bit of Sonata 12 in F and did sound kinda like Mitsuko Uchida, no really I did.
The sustain pedal simulates a proper grand "analogue" one where you get more sustain the more you press it, whereas I think on a typical upright it's more of a binary on-off thing. This means I can now use the pedal with Mozart which before just sounded messy and horrid. So that is great. I played a bit of Sonata 12 in F and did sound kinda like Mitsuko Uchida, no really I did.
