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Amazing classical chops: Yuja Wang


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Harry Likas was the Technical Editor of Mark Levine's "The Jazz Theory Book" and helped develop "The Jazz Piano Book." Find 700 of Harry’s piano arrangements of standards for educational purposes and jazz piano tutorials at www.Patreon.com/HarryLikas

 

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Harry Likas was the Technical Editor of Mark Levine's "The Jazz Theory Book" and helped develop "The Jazz Piano Book." Find 700 of Harry’s piano arrangements of standards for educational purposes and jazz piano tutorials at www.Patreon.com/HarryLikas

 

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Yes, but can she play it at 600 bpm? Cause that's when it becomes art.

 

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That is to music as The Home Run Derby is to baseball.

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Yes, but can she play it at 600 bpm? Cause that's when it becomes art.

 

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That is to music as The Home Run Derby is to baseball.

 

Glad someone said it.

 

 

You are looking to show your ability to play distinct notes at an extremely fast pace so you turn your distortion way up so the individual notes are barely audible? That video is a disgrace to the first one posted!

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funny that she refuses to play this anymore since people now associate it with her and her little red dress too, i tried to get my wife to wear the same thing while under my steinway, but she prefers a french maid outfit

 

JazzKeyboardist1 3 months ago

 

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Jazz+, is that you?

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She has otherworldly facility ! But let's hear her on Rhythm changes in Bb at 160 for the half note.. :D

 

If she'd learn to swing, she'd actually probably tear it up.. ;)

 

I dig her here more from a musical perspective. Stunning virtuosity for sure. Dare I say right there with Argreich's version...

 

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Hmm, the true 'amazing chops guy' is Cziffra.

He made the arrangement of flight of the bumblebee (so he was the first one that thought about it and was the first one able to play the darn thing!). And this recording is from 1957, more than 50 years ago!

 

Not that I really dig the super-virtuosic thing; music is not a matter of speed, it's not the olympics. ;)

 

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Hmm, the true 'amazing chops guy' is Cziffra.

He made the arrangement of flight of the bumblebee (so he was the first one that thought about it and was the first one able to play the darn thing!).

 

Ummm, except for the other 100+ people who arranged it before him, including Rachmaninov and Heifetz and a jazz version (1948) and a theremin version and the Spike Jones version and several versions by Rimsky-Korsakov. Other than those 100+ versions and a few thousand performances, that dude was the first. :laugh:

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She was at the Bowl the other night with Dudamel and the LA Phil. All the talk was about her purple gown... :whistle:

 

I can never get these LA Times links to be clickable so you'll have to copy and paste.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-cm-hollywood-bowl-dudamel-yuja-wang-review-20120811,0,5377595.story

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I can never get these LA Times links to be clickable so you'll have to copy and paste.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-cm-hollywood-bowl-dudamel-yuja-wang-review-20120811,0,5377595.story

Dave, you need to just make them into a link like this, replacing the curly brackets {} with straight ones []

 

{url=http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-cm-hollywood-bowl-dudamel-yuja-wang-review-20120811,0,5377595.story}linky{/url}

 

resulting in

 

linky

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