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When I was at school, I took piano lessons for many years, and eventually reached grade 4.  Although I stopped playing the piano when I left school, I’ve recently started playing again, inspired to learn to play my two favourite piano pieces – Maple Leaf Rag by Scott Joplin, and Gymnopédie No. 1 by Erik Satie.


Scott Joplin – Maple Leaf Rag

Here’s a video of me performing this piece in August 2008:

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I find it very difficult to play this piece all the way through without making any mistakes, so in this video I’ve edited together several different takes.  I find the third section in Db major especially difficult to play, so please forgive any mistakes I make there!

I find it very interesting to watch other people playing this piece (for example, I’m very impressed by this guy’s accurate performance).  I also like watching people improvising on the piece – this guy’s arrangement is great, and I particularly love this video of Rod Miller’s mind-blowing ultra-high-speed improvisation (no, it hasn’t been speeded up!)

This orchestral arrangement is great fun (for some reason, it reminds me of the Wallace and Gromit music!), and this bass guitar arrangement is very clever.  Finally, this ridiculous performance is hilarious – the hideous sound distortion, the wobbly camera and the dozens of wrong notes make me laugh every time I watch it!


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That was Pretty nice.
    14 Oct 2008
    Puerto Rico
Hey dude i like you piano playing really cool and original.
Anita
    26 Oct 2009
    South Africa
I love this site!!!
Dennis
    22 Mar 2010
    Netherlands
Really nice and emotionally played, very sensitive touching the keys ;) I also lisatened to a couple plays from you, music feeds your heart honestly and really


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