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September 4th, 2007

How not to play the piano

UPDATE: TABULAS JUST ADDED A NEW ANTI SPAM FEATURE. YOU HAVE TO TYPE A KEYWORD IN ORDER TO POST COMMENTS. TO SEE THE KEYWORD, RIGHT CLICK THE SPACE BETWEEN THE QUOTES AND THEN SELECT VIEW IMAGE. I'M TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO DISABLE IT SINCE PEOPLE CAN'T SEE THE KEYWORD


My legions upon legions of readers are probably asking themselves right now "Why hasn't Jaywalker posted anything in almost 3 weeks?!! My day isn't complete without reading an article by jaywalker!!"

One reason is that, the past few days, the universe has been conspiring to make my cyber life really miserable. 3 of my hard disks failed, carrying with them precious data. I don't know what's causing my hard disks to fail. I've already replaced the PSU, the cables, the memory and i had the motherboard tested as well.

I've also been a bit emo the last few days for reasons that i'd rather not discuss... because manly men never discuss emo stuff in public

Anyway, I decided that i wanted to post videos of me playing the piano. So I may educate people on how NOT to play the piano

I actually had private piano lessons when i was 7 or 8. I didn't take long for me to get bored. I felt that the lessons were going at a very slow pace and i wanted to play complex pieces already so i told my tutor to teach me chords instead of reading notes... that's why i'm such a crappy piano player right now

1.) Here's Chopin's Nocturne in C# minor: You may wonder why the latter part of the video was cut abruptly. That's because that part of the piece is particularly difficult


2.)Here's beethoven's moonlight Sonata in C# minor: I played the entire piece without a sheet. I tried to memorize it but my memory's quite bad as you can see in this vid... also my pedal foot is quite heavy


3.) Blue moon: Here's a bit of sinatra for you. This is 100% improv. I was making up the notes as i was playing them. As you'll see in this vid, i totlaly suck at imprpov. I'll also be singing in this vid so turn down the volume a little bit lest you scare the neighboors



Posted by jaywalker_1982 at 12:04 PM in youtube vids | 13 comments

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Comment posted on September 6th, 2007 at 03:59 AM
i haven't seen that anti-spam feature...
Comment posted on September 6th, 2007 at 09:14 PM
The other night, if you're not a tabulas user, you had to enter a keyword in order to post comments. I think they disabled that feature now

gilgamesh (guest)

Comment posted on September 5th, 2007 at 08:27 PM
actually, the anti-spam feature was implemented last year

cyberpunk (guest)

Comment posted on September 5th, 2007 at 08:08 AM
hey! i had a request you know...

where's my freakin' song and dance video?!
Comment posted on September 5th, 2007 at 08:21 AM
ano nga pala yung song:)
Comment posted on September 4th, 2007 at 03:47 PM
Measure 2 and 3 are very bluesie.
At least you played it in the moonlight. :P
Comment posted on September 4th, 2007 at 12:44 PM
I totally play Moonlight Sonata.

Are you wearing a Tag?
Comment posted on September 4th, 2007 at 12:46 PM
You do? then you can appreciate how much i mangled it

What's a tag?
Comment posted on September 4th, 2007 at 02:21 PM
Oh, I thought the watch you were wearing was a Tag. Hehe
Comment posted on September 4th, 2007 at 09:09 PM
I'm not sure what the brand is. I bought it from a guy with a cart being pulled by a carabao
Comment posted on September 4th, 2007 at 10:38 PM
I like carabaos. They seem to like me too.
Comment posted on September 4th, 2007 at 03:47 PM
It might be...bought off a moving cart. :-D
Comment posted on September 4th, 2007 at 09:13 PM
The cart was actually stationary at the time, thank you
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