I wanted to see how fast I could play the entire song:
const interval = setInterval(() => document.getElementById('pixi-canvas').dispatchEvent(new MouseEvent("mousedown", {bubbles: true})), 0);
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#162Great choice of song! If you ever have access to a piano, I highly recommended trying to fumble your way through Beethoven's moonlight sonata, even if you don't know how to play piano. Not quite sure how to put it into words, but it's absolutely exhilarating hearing your own fingers produce these huge sounds and intense chord progressions. Every time I managed to find the right chord I'd get such a rush. "Oh no he di…
When I started taking piano lesions a few years ago, one of the first rules that my teacher established was: "No Moonlight Sonata" ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ My guess is that it resembles in a way playing "Smoke on the water" in a guitar shop.
My guess is that reason is that Moonlight Sonata is not hard to learn, just tedious to teach a beginner, because of the endless repetition of relatively short phrases shifting and changing a little bit at a time.
This is what makes it fantastic, but learning to play it is mostly learning a few phrases and recognizing the shifts, which I can imagine would drive your teacher nuts until you're at a stage where you can pick up the changes rapidly enough sight reading to not have to remember every transition.
I'd guess - as a very mediocre piano player - that it's as a result low "bang for the buck" for a beginner on top of annoying to your teacher.
Upside is once you get even just relatively mediocre at sight reading it's fairly simple to work your way through yourself.
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#163Earlier quoted context omitted.
When I started taking piano lesions a few years ago, one of the first rules that my teacher established was: "No Moonlight Sonata" ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ My guess is that it resembles in a way playing "Smoke on the water" in a guitar shop.
Nobody should work with a pompous instructor who decides what is / isn't acceptable on an instrument. As a former guitar teacher, I would help my students learn whatever they wanted - Van Halen, Brittany Spears, Garth Brooks, whatever. All music has something of merit if you're willing to look for it.
I think it's more it's probably not a very effective piece to learn with. You can learn a few techniques from your teacher and then it's just practicing the variations and transitions, because it repeats roughly the same changes over and over. Learning the piece during your lessons is likely a waste.
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that's sad. a yearning musician should be able to learn and play whatever they want and whatever makes them feel a certain thing. moonlight sonata evokes something in me i can't explain (which is probably why it's a legendary piece). having strong opinions on what to play when learning feels so gatekeepy. i would have dropped that teacher quickly
Yes, but a teacher I think has the right to decide that after teaching the same song 500 times they never want to hear it again. I think people can be allowed one song they are tired of.
Naw, the priority is the student not the teacher
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#165I wanted to see how fast I could play the entire song: const interval = setInterval(() => document.getElementById('pixi-canvas').dispatchEvent(new MouseEvent("mousedown", {bubbles: true})), 0);
rip headphone users :D
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#166i cant change the music? clicking isnt working
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#167Great choice of song! If you ever have access to a piano, I highly recommended trying to fumble your way through Beethoven's moonlight sonata, even if you don't know how to play piano. Not quite sure how to put it into words, but it's absolutely exhilarating hearing your own fingers produce these huge sounds and intense chord progressions. Every time I managed to find the right chord I'd get such a rush. "Oh no he di…
Moonlight Sonata 3rd Movement is one of the most exhilarating songs I've ever heard, if not the most. I can't believe a piece of music written a few hundred years ago still sounds so modern and exciting and new, it's an incredible work.
I urge everyone to listen to it, specifically the 3rd movement. It really shocks me that Beethoven or anyone could write a piece of music so brilliant like that!
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thank you. it was bluetooth to blame in general (was using external speakers). now all delays are one.
Bluetooth codec is to blame. Some Bluetooth codecs are (very) low latency. I used my phone speaker. My daughter (5) loved it, thank you. Was odd it only worked once in Firefox Mobille (Android). I had to install Vivaldi (badum-tsh) to get it to work again. Was a let down it was only one song.
There are more songs in the menu (I think).
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#169Great choice of song! If you ever have access to a piano, I highly recommended trying to fumble your way through Beethoven's moonlight sonata, even if you don't know how to play piano. Not quite sure how to put it into words, but it's absolutely exhilarating hearing your own fingers produce these huge sounds and intense chord progressions. Every time I managed to find the right chord I'd get such a rush. "Oh no he di…
When I started taking piano lesions a few years ago, one of the first rules that my teacher established was: "No Moonlight Sonata" ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ My guess is that it resembles in a way playing "Smoke on the water" in a guitar shop.
A lot of music teachers are like that. I personally consider it shitty. My friend's first violin teacher (when she was 10 years old) made her do empty string bowing for a year. Just pull and push bowing. Now, don't get me wrong, technique is extremely important, and a lot of teachers have "if you can't do it well, don't do it" mentality. But really these people miss music is also tons of fucking fun. For a 10 year old infant, you really need a better curriculum to motivate her than just perfecting empty bowing.
I tell people: you wanna play Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto? Go fucking play it. I mean you're not gonna play it well, even some world-class pianists can't, but if it gives you pleasure to try, and motivates you to play piano, that's fine. If you're gonna be a professional pianist, or you're a student at university, it's an entirely different matter. Some people are just hobbyists, or they want to be composers and learn piano to help compose (which is an extremely important core skill for a composer). Those people can just sit down and play whatever they want, along with things that are at their level that they can perfectly play.
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#170Lol. That's fun, and frustrating! I can't manage tempo just repeating the same key on my short-travel keyboard, and if I start wandering around the keyboard, my old piano lessons start messing up my "fingering".