Longshot music request

[Tom]

I'd love to learn how to play the first few bars of Mozart's Piano Concerto in D Minor (K466).

Does anyone have a link, or could email me a score of this?

Long shot I know, and possibly the wrong forum, but more people will see it here.

 

[Tilda]

https://everynote.com/goods.1/Moz_Con466.pdf



Probably got a full copy of it at home, but I wont be back there until easter

 

[Chilly]

all that music is out of copyright now tom so dont feed bad leeching it

 

[Tom]

Great site Tilda, many thanks. Wrong movement linked, but still its the first online place I've found that list it. You are now officially BRILLIANT!

They also take paypal, which is just bloody utterly bloodyness.

Cheers! The piece I love is http://www.virtualsheetmusic.com/score/ConcertoK466.html (Romanze midi link)

Btw, I've got it now, if anybody is ahem interested in erm....stuff, pm me.

 

[Tom]

By the way, if anybody can recommend any easy Sonatas or simple solos to play, I'd be happy to take those on board.

So far I can play Moonlight Sonata (Beethoven), Pathetique Sonata (Beethoven), the first part of Fur Elise, a tiny bit of Sheep may Safely Graze, and more modern stuff, including 'Imagine' by John Lennon (dead easy actually), and I'm just learning 'Trouble' by Coldplay which is similarly quite easy. I tried learning Cavatina by John Williams, but that gets bloody difficult about 10 bars in, so I've taken a break from that. I also tried 'my baby just cares for me' but thats impossible once you get a few bars in!

 

[Tilda]

Tocata and Fuge in D minor

 

[Tom]

Already know those

 

[Brynn]

chopsticks or the entertainer

 

[Clown]

On a similar note, I want to teach myself piano or guitar. Are these easy to learn alone, maybe with free help from the internet? I don't have either instrument yet, but I plan to buy one or the other.

 

[Gat_Decor]

Try this one Tom, was a favourite of mine when me mum used to play the piano for us when we were kids

Alla Turca K331

 

[Tilda]

Already know those

Host a recording

 

[Tom]

On a similar note, I want to teach myself piano or guitar. Are these easy to learn alone, maybe with free help from the internet? I don't have either instrument yet, but I plan to buy one or the other.

Any music shop will sell dozens of books to teach you either. Best getting one with a CD or tape, that way you'll have a solid guide as to how what you are learning should sound. They should only cost a tenner or so. Best to visit a music shop and get some advice, you won't get the best one from Amazon.

Most of what I know now I learnt while I was in secondary school, and after that I didn't touch a keyboard for 16 years. You never forget the chords, the positions of the notes on the keys, but I've lost a fair amount of rhythm since then, and my left hand is slowing evolving from the Jeremy Beadle version its been for the last 16 years. Once you learn a piece of music on the Piano it becomes massively satisfying to sit there and play it. Its like every time, you're performing your own cover version of a tune, except you can modify and change it how you like while you're playing it. It really makes me happy to sit and play for an hour or so.

It takes practice, practice, and more practice (months to get ok, years to get good). If you want a piano, there are loads on Ebay (try not to buy one thats too small, you don't want it sounding like a honky-tonk piano from a western), or possibly look at buying a Yamaha Clavinova, very good electronic keyboards with a full range of octaves (an octave is C, D, E, F, G, A, B - effectively a doubling of the frequency from the lower C to the upper C). I'd look at spending between £100 and £300 quid, try and get an older one thats been well looked after. Tuning it will cost about £50.

Probably lots of people here can advise you about guitars, I know nothing about them.

 

[Tom]

Host a recording

Show me a pipe organ, and I will

 

[Tilda]

If you can get to Gloucester, i daresay I could weedle you into the cathedral organ, but i'm not there so it'll have to wait till easter

 

[tRoG]

I'd go for piano, tbh. A great first instrument, as much of what you learn can be transfered to other instruments. Good pianists (Huh huh) tend to be good musicians. Good guitarists tend to be big-headed arseholes

 

[Sar]

Tocata and Fuge in D minor

Brilliant piece.

 

[Aoami]

On a similar note, I want to teach myself piano or guitar. Are these easy to learn alone, maybe with free help from the internet? I don't have either instrument yet, but I plan to buy one or the other.

Guitar is horrendously easy if you've got enough time to stick at it hard untill you've mastered the basics. Basics to good transition is nothing.

 

[oblimov]

i learned piano through school for about 6 years but then i taught myself guitar thanks to scott henderson books they are really really good

 

[stubbyrulz]

tom you should learn lake bodom by children of bodom tis the best piece of keyboard playing ive heard theres even a solo in it