Justinian: So this is the equivalent of "shredding' for electric guitars, eh? I don't remember a lot of talk about being a virtuoso in that thread...Um- big difference. One, guitar shredding is often deceptively easy, at least from the comments in that thread- i.e., that fingertapping allows for rapid arpeggiations and patterns that sound complex but are really just a few of the same riffs strung together over and over, but are easier than you'd think with practice. That's not really the case with the pieces described above- granted, with a lot of Hanon and Czerny practice, a lot of scales/runs are easier, but there's not really a good practice for banging out the massive and rapid chords in the Ossia of the Rachmaninoff 3rd, Mov't 1.
honeydew: I went to music camp as a teenager and saw one of the kids there, no more than fourteen, play "La Campanella." It absolutely incredible. I was sitting next to another pianist, who muttered something along the lines of "I quit. I'm going to be a baseball player instead."I don't really play any more, not since my teens, but I remember playing a Chopin polonaise at my 1-year piano recital (I was about 14 years old, so not La Campanella but not too shabby), and having a woman come up to me afterwards and say she'd being inspired to start taking lessons again. So the reaction to great playing and virtuoso really depends on whether you are playing for ego or for the music and love of it.
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