If you don't have the talent but work hard for your music you can still be successful but what separates the talented ones from the normal ones is that if a talented person were to work equally as hard , he/she will be able to more successful than former. Possessing talent is like possessing that X factor.
Talent takes your musicianship journey to unspeakable heights PROVIDED if you put in lots of hard work in it.
Talent without hardwork is NOTHING.
Talent is just like a special chemical catalyst you possess , something which the others don't and if put to good use , it can take you to places which you never dream of going."
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"The pedaling technique for classical pianist is a complex thing and the subject can easily cover an entire book (there are really a book that covers only pedaling). In Classical piano playing, the pedal function is not as simple as prolonging/sustaining the note (the first role teacher will teach the student). Since as you know, when you press the pedal, all the dampers will be lifted and in the end, make symphathetic strings resonates as well.
If we're talking about the use of pedal, it's really really a lot ... you can use fully, you can used it rhythmycally together with a chord, during a fast passage and a lot of other thing.
But actually what the book tells you is that literally, it's the position of the damper. As you know, when you press the pedal it lift the damper. This mechanism is not a on/off thing like a button. (press ... on .... release ... off) But it's like a lever. And since it's a lever, the amount of opening that you can have at a certain time is different. For instance, actually lots of lower grade piano, doesn't have the damper lifted up all the way only when the pedal is all the way down. Most of it is only like 3/4, and the damper is all away from the string already. So with this knowledge, of course you need to control the pedal well with your feet so that you can do full pedaling, or only releasing the damper a lil-bit ... (sets the string a bit freer to resonate but still having the damped sound) and from that to the full lifted up damper which will set the string free to resonate.
It's pedaling in miniscule level that the book is talking. But to tell you the truth, 30 degree of pedaling is exaggarating =) ..... the difference between one and the other is so subtle. For me personally, to try being so precise with your pedaling is a waste of time. What you need to work on is what sound you producing. What kind of sound you produce, and the ability to have that sound with your pedaling technique. Because to tell you the truth, you practice at home and then you say to yourself, "okay... this passage need 22/30 pedaling ... okay, get it!" .... then you go to your recital hall .... and you apply your precise 22/30 pedalling .... you'll be surprised that it sounded different. First, the piano is different ... and then, the acoustic of the room and the hall is so much different.
So that's my opinion =) ..... but yea ... people at that time do tends to want people to take them as God by saying things like this.... Sensational mah ... (same with people nowadays actually ..... A lot of musician tells you that they don't practice at all when actually the truth is they practice really REALLY SERIOUSLY long hour) so that people will take them as geniuses or really talented."
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this is chimalogy baby.
but it really inspires me alot to want to study more about the instrument i'm playing,
as well as spurred me on to continue in my dip (:
Yea, true though.
Talent without hardwork is NOTHING.
it's just like,
Faith without action is NOTHING.
both requires response and work done.
