Fur Elise Beethoven

I'm practising my piano on Fur Elise composed by the famous Beethoven. I kinda stuck at the 0:57th of the song, it requires a smooth and fast pressing of keys, slur and allegro mode. I think i would be playing this song perhaps 1 or 2 months ahead before i'm able to play to smoothly.

A year of piano lessons

Today i came very early to the work, it was truly out of ordinary. There was nothing so special today except there will be a meeting with Diyana from Billing. Soffiyan and myself have agreed to meet her this morning right before she started her meeting with the fucker sales people. Well, that's not the key highlight that i want to babble about. At 7am before i went off to office, i put my fingers on the piano keyboards and started playing the ones that should practice and out of nowhere, it came across my mind that i should try play the old songs when i first practice a year ago.

At first it was Lonesome; my fingers and my mind proved to be quite quick in synchronisation. I managed to play it reasonably good.  Well, that was not really so suprising cause i played Lonesome song sometimes when i felt bored with the kids-like song for my grade. And then i flipped the pages and i found the old one named Thumbalaika. Then i started playing the song slowly by looking the notes and my fingers on the keyboard without looking at the translation notes beneath each score. I gradually able to pick up very fast and able to play the song very well relative to the way how i played it a year ago. Personally, i've impressed my own self. Yaaaa... truly it was not a waste of practicing what my teacher, Yap taught me in every class i have attended. I can truly read the notes without the need to translate them one by one. Well done shahrul!

Sweet instrumental piano songs

There are few notable songs that i like most because i consider them as sweet; or dolce in italiano piano term. They are played usually at a moderate pace or slow. and i love playing them. Amongs those that i have found until now are Brahms Lullaby, Lonesome Road and Swinging Sevenths. I love them so much as everytime i play my piano or any other piano, i definitely will not miss play them on and on.

These are some Youtube videos that i reference from PianoNobleAlexMan site.

1. Brahms Lullaby
   
2. Lonesome Road
   
3. Swinging Sevenths
   

i think i will update this list from time to time whenever i bumped into any sweet piano songs.

Enjoy it...

Finally receiving my 'The Best of David Foster'

I got up late at my office, but to my suprise there is a book that i've been waiting quite sometime since my online purchase. It is 'The Best of David Foster'. The book is in great condition and in fact it looks new. I bought the book at ebay with the price USD14.37 plus the delivery charge of USD25+ the total price in Malaysia is around RM110. The delivery was quite acceptable because if i were to compare with my last purchase on ebay also, it took me almost 2 months to arrive, where as this one was less than a month. i bought the book on 26-jan-2012 and roughly the delivery time is approx 3 weeks.

The first thing i did when flipped through the book was, go to St Elmo's Fire notes. Honestly speaking the note is more challenging as compared to the one that i current have (someone gave to me for free).


Excellent! i couldn't wait to touch my piano with new melodies from David Foster.

A mental note on my music class homework

There'll be my piano class today as usual at 8:30pm and i need to show my complete homework. It's kind of my habit that whenver i attend the class, my homework is done. I've experience before that i didn't complete my homework & i realise that ms yap make use of her time asking me to complete the work there and then. Obviously, it was such a waste of time because a precious half an hour time can be maximised for me to learn hands-on piano lessons.

So make sure i do npt forget to bring along the homework past year question to the office.