Thread:Hackey5/@comment-17897872-20150707194633/@comment-17897872-20150720162232

Sorry for the late response. You know how lazy people can get at times!

Yup, that's me! Strolling along Liszt (and Chopin on my other user page). Of course, it is just practicing slowly over and over for menial hours before anything can get close to professional. I personally practice each voice separately, then put them together one at a time in different patterns XD. The long-short-long-short pattern helps in these passages. But I don't find the technical parts hard; it's the emotions you need to carry with it to make it work. Personal experience has given me the emotional depression needed for this piece. All the right notes with no emotions sound really wrong. The thing is that I usually get lost and start to daydream while playing and then mess up. That's my real danger. However, technically, I'm not even there yet - check out Arthur Rubinstein's recording on YouTube; he's my piano man ;). My piano teacher says I could use a lot of improvement and play for different people and get advice, so that's what I did. Any places I can practice more, especially to get it up to Rubinstein's level? :/ Probably a ton of places!  I've so far learned this piece for about 3 weeks as I didn't know about the competition until late, so I will be at a huge disadvantage compared to those playing at the competition as they have been working on theirs for about a year :). I'm also going to be one of the youngest contestants in my category, so there are always going to be chances where I'm stopped in the middle and eliminated instantly. So nervous for Thursday...

Next year, the same competition is going to be held again here in Pamona, California, USA at around the same point in time! Repertoire requirements are already out, giving you about a year. Since this is an international competition, maybe you can even participate if you're under 18! If you're interested I'll give you a link! That'd be awesome XD.

But back onto topic from the top, any ideas about making the stars work on the header? It would make yours and even Nusdan's masthead look much nicer than it is now,