tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6232479.post4800872195163062747..comments2023-10-05T10:19:06.886-05:00Comments on Blogonomicon: just a commentAlanDPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00910363728370240226noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6232479.post-71268622499977669302012-08-14T23:01:04.152-05:002012-08-14T23:01:04.152-05:00That is a different arrangement altogether. Perhap...That is a different arrangement altogether. Perhaps it was meant to be played by two people at the same keyboard? If not, perhaps it was just a bad arrangement.Albatrosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02156254141379602471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6232479.post-1549475277829561042012-08-13T14:09:16.961-05:002012-08-13T14:09:16.961-05:00Well, I understand all that. Like I said, I had b...Well, I understand all that. Like I said, I had bought a lot of these books and I was familiar with the reduced score. However, I forgot to tell one very important part of this story.<br /><br />The thing I was all flabbergasted about was this: The part that I was supposed to play with my right hand was being played by Dennis De Young with BOTH hands. So once I saw that the guy who wrote it had to use both hands to play it, I gave up. I still practiced it, but from then on I just completely ignored the bass line and practiced only the right hand part, but with both hands. It made things a lot easier.AlanDPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00910363728370240226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6232479.post-49955355768220118872012-08-12T22:44:18.600-05:002012-08-12T22:44:18.600-05:00"This part takes TWO professional musicians t...<i>"This part takes TWO professional musicians to play and I'm supposed to play both parts myself?!"</i><br /><br />Don't feel too bad. That's often expected of piano accompanists, whom <b>I</b> expect your score book was written for.<br /><br />I sang for a while in a choir, one that did full cantatas from time to time. In performance these cantatas are supported by a full orchestra, but such orchestras are never available for practice. So we had a piano player, and that player worked from a reduced score.<br /><br />A piano reduction reduces an entire orchestra's worth of parts into two staves on one piece of sheet music that can be played by one pianist. A very <b>accomplished</b> pianist. Not every subtle voice is there, but the core basics are, and that gives the practicing choir something to work with.<br /><br />I suspect you found such a reduction, though it was only for two parts (one, oddly enough, being a keyboard!) instead of an entire orchestra.Albatrosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02156254141379602471noreply@blogger.com