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RMRK General => Video Games and Entertainment => Topic started by: Kokowam on June 27, 2010, 11:01:54 PM

Title: Increasingly Hard Songs for Piano and Violin?
Post by: Kokowam on June 27, 2010, 11:01:54 PM
So, I have a piano (well, keyboard; almost the same thing) and a violin. I can't really play either. HOWEVER, I feel like if I practice, I will get better. No?

So, I was wondering if anyone had songs that I could try and learn for either or both instruments starting at a beginner level and then going up. Of course, learning two new instruments at once is kinda dumb, so I'll most likely be going with the one that I have more knowledge (from you guys) about. Or I'll just do both anyways because it's not like I'm trying to be pro, but I just want to have fun, lol.

So yah?
Title: Re: Increasingly Hard Songs for Piano and Violin?
Post by: tSwitch on June 27, 2010, 11:29:47 PM
Chopsticks.
Title: Re: Increasingly Hard Songs for Piano and Violin?
Post by: Sophist on June 27, 2010, 11:49:50 PM
Yann Tiersen's work can be very simple and moving but extremely complex in technicality. Same with Final Fantasy themes.
Title: Re: Increasingly Hard Songs for Piano and Violin?
Post by: Kokowam on June 28, 2010, 12:03:05 AM
What are some good FF themes? The only one that comes to mind is "To Zanarkand." :P
Title: Re: Increasingly Hard Songs for Piano and Violin?
Post by: Sophist on June 28, 2010, 12:36:21 AM
http://bladiator.vgpiano.com/other/gaia.pdf
Title: Re: Increasingly Hard Songs for Piano and Violin?
Post by: cozziekuns on June 28, 2010, 12:51:08 AM
Ode to Joy's a classic for beginning keyboard players.
Title: Re: Increasingly Hard Songs for Piano and Violin?
Post by: Kokowam on June 28, 2010, 01:29:01 AM
Quote from: Anski on June 28, 2010, 12:36:21 AM
http://bladiator.vgpiano.com/other/gaia.pdf
That's really silly in the beginning; it seems more like a compound meter. But is there any recording of anyone playing it? It always helps to have heard it first P:

And "Ode to Joy" is a bit easy. P: I mean, I don't have it memorized or anything, but yeah. I guess that'd be a good gauge to see how well (or not) play the piano.
Title: Re: Increasingly Hard Songs for Piano and Violin?
Post by: Sophist on June 28, 2010, 02:41:35 AM
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XiSJ-WaCNw[/yt]
Title: Re: Increasingly Hard Songs for Piano and Violin?
Post by: Sophist on June 28, 2010, 02:43:26 AM
This is actually one of the first songs I learned to be able to play from start to finish, the first being the Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness.
Title: Re: Increasingly Hard Songs for Piano and Violin?
Post by: Shiroiyuki on June 28, 2010, 02:46:10 AM
Work up from Beethoven to Chopin, making sure to stop for some Brahms on the way.
Title: Re: Increasingly Hard Songs for Piano and Violin?
Post by: Sophist on June 28, 2010, 02:48:42 AM
Brahms is very slow and easy, and so is Beethoven. The hardest you can get, in my opinion, is Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky.
Title: Re: Increasingly Hard Songs for Piano and Violin?
Post by: Kokowam on June 28, 2010, 03:06:24 AM
Thanks, guiz. :3 I like the sound of the medley. I think I'll start with that.
Title: Re: Increasingly Hard Songs for Piano and Violin?
Post by: Moss. on June 28, 2010, 02:04:20 PM
Franz Liszt, if you want the impossible.

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Title: Re: Increasingly Hard Songs for Piano and Violin?
Post by: Ruzu on June 28, 2010, 09:30:19 PM
How about, Requiem for a dream, its somewhat difficult I hear. It's by Clint marshall.
Title: Re: Increasingly Hard Songs for Piano and Violin?
Post by: Shiroiyuki on June 29, 2010, 01:40:58 AM
Quote from: Anski on June 28, 2010, 02:48:42 AM
Brahms is very slow and easy, and so is Beethoven. The hardest you can get, in my opinion, is Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky.

Erm.....which is why I suggested them. They are great for newbies.
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