Originally posted by eatmybishopI've never been able to nail Chopin's "Nocturne if F minor". Tempo vs emotion...
i'd like to hear what people think the most difficult style of music for a musician to play is....
as a musician, i would say jazz and classical are the most technically demanding, jazz due to it's complex harmonies and improvisation and classical for just being so demanding
Talk about one song symbolizing the musical dichotic relationship between Dionysis and Apollo!
Originally posted by eatmybishopClassical ain't hard.
i'd like to hear what people think the most difficult style of music for a musician to play is....
as a musician, i would say jazz and classical are the most technically demanding, jazz due to it's complex harmonies and improvisation and classical for just being so demanding
That is, if you've been born and bred playing it.
I'm not called "scherzo" for nothing. The classical style is easiest for me to play because I was bred with it.
Originally posted by uzlessThe one Chopin piece I can't master is his "Revolutionary Etude in C minor." Now that's a hard piece.
I've never been able to nail Chopin's "Nocturne if F minor". Tempo vs emotion...
Talk about one song symbolizing the musical dichotic relationship between Dionysis and Apollo!
Originally posted by scherzothe impromptus are also difficult, different time signatures in each hand, sudden changes of tempo, large stretches for the hands as well, fast octave playing, chopin made it as difficult as he could for us
The one Chopin piece I can't master is his "Revolutionary Etude in C minor." Now that's a hard piece.
The question was what music is hardest to play, I say it has to be the Sitar. The rigorous training they get, they don't even get to PLAY a sitar for the first 10 years! The timing is incredibly complex and the technique on the sitar is meant for aliens I think, not human hands.
I don't play one, just what I heard. My daughter studied Indian vocal music in India, now is a music professor at the Federal University in Brazil.
Me, I play folk music, which is hard enough to do well! Look at the genius of Doc Watson or Norman Blake or Martin Simpson or Bert Jansch or Davy Graham or Jerry Douglas or Sam Bush on mandolin.
Or the fiddle people, Natalie McMaster, Tommy Peoples.
In the classical world I don't think there is an instrument harder to play than the classical guitar. Think Andre Segovia, Julian Bream, one of his students, or Ida Presti and Alexander Lagoya, they put the classical guitar duo on the map.
Originally posted by scherzoThe Revolutionary Etude by Chopin is by no means the hardest music to play. To stick with Chopin's Etudes, try op. 25 no. 6 or even op. 10 no. 2. They are already much harder. Apart from that it's mostly technical stuff, and from counterpoint and emotional point of view there's not much difficulty in it.
Have you even ever seen a copy of the "Revolutionary Etude"?
Try playing Ravel's "Gaspard de la Nuit" - Ondine, Le Gibet and Scarbo. Now that's music that's hard to play.
Originally posted by scherzoClassical music is usually the most complex music and thus the hardest to play. That's as easy as it gets. Oh, and there's differences in instruments of course. Try playing a Bach fugue on a bassoon - won't work. Instruments that enable counterpoint as well as dynamics (of course! The piano!) are in my opinion the hardest to master.
Classical ain't hard.
That is, if you've been born and bred playing it.
I'm not called "scherzo" for nothing. The classical style is easiest for me to play because I was bred with it.
Originally posted by davanielYou mean a fugue?
Classical music is usually the most complex music and thus the hardest to play. That's as easy as it gets. Oh, and there's differences in instruments of course. Try playing a Bach fugue on a bassoon - won't work. Instruments that enable counterpoint as well as dynamics (of course! The piano!) are in my opinion the hardest to master.