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[debra]

Making videos is still quite difficult (and time consuming).
I made an arrangement of the Andante from the Pianoconcerto 21 by Mozart, also known from the movie Elvira Madigan.
(Thats of course freely available from https://www.de-bra.nl/arrangements.html and from imslp.org.)
I played all (5) parts for a YouTube movie in which I placed myself twice in split screen (switching between parts).
Im still learning how to do this... but Im slowly getting there. The lighting is still uneven and the alignment is also not perfect...
The movie is at this YouTube address.

 

[Eddy Yates]

Beautiful, Paul.
Not sure how you did that with no headphones!
You probably used the steady eighth note pulse as a tempo reference, and maybe you're watching the waveform on a screen? Beautiful work, in any case.
I wandered into the Albert Hall in London for a Prom's concert that changed my ideas about that steady eighth note rhythm forever. Not sure if it's right or wrong, but when the orchestra played that rhythm in Schubert's Unfinished, they made each measure have its own phrase, giving it kind of an echo effect. Start quietly, crescendo to the middle of the measure, slight decrescendo, start over. Very tough to do that with an accordion unless that's the only part you're playing, of course.
Thanks for posting!

 

[Dingo40]

Great work, Paul!
Well done

 

[Giovanni]

Well Done Paul …..Excellent   ..thanks for sharing ……………..Giovanni

 

[AndyM]

Very skilfully played Paul and a pleasure to listen to. Thanks.

 

[dunlustin]

I now have several instruments available free to a good home!

 

[debra]

Beautiful, Paul.
Not sure how you did that with no headphones!
You probably used the steady eighth note pulse as a tempo reference, and maybe you're watching the waveform on a screen? ...

Same as always: I start by recording the audio, one voice at a time. In this case it was using a metronome. In other cases this has also been done by filming while playing one voice and then playing the other voices while glancing at the video. In any case recording the audio is always done with headphones, so the metronome or the filmed voice isn't recorded.
The video you see is made after the audio was mixed. The audio was playing through speakers. The audio while playing for the video was discarded afterwords. So it's "playback", just like what many "artists" (mainly singers) do on stage.
The video for each voice was taped in one go, so I do know how to play each voice, in one go. With a difficult piece (like Ruslan and Lyudmila, which I put on YouTube before this one) it would require fragments and many takes... which is why I only do audio for difficult pieces.

 

[Thomas N]

Very beautiful!

 

[Eddy Yates]

Beautiful, Paul.
Not sure how you did that with no headphones!
You probably used the steady eighth note pulse as a tempo reference, and maybe you're watching the waveform on a screen? ...

Same as always: I start by recording the audio, one voice at a time. In this case it was using a metronome. In other cases this has also been done by filming while playing one voice and then playing the other voices while glancing at the video. In any case recording the audio is always done with headphones, so the metronome or the filmed voice isn't recorded.
The video you see is made after the audio was mixed. The audio was playing through speakers. The audio while playing for the video was discarded afterwords. So it's "playback", just like what many "artists" (mainly singers) do on stage.
The video for each voice was taped in one go, so I do know how to play each voice, in one go. With a difficult piece (like Ruslan and Lyudmila, which I put on YouTube before this one) it would require fragments and many takes... which is why I only do audio for difficult pieces.

Ah! Or as we say in the business, "cheating".  Ha! Beautiful cheating, nevertheless.

 

[Tom]

Looking good Paul!

 

[simonmax]

Very professional playing and the effort in the production is clearly noticeable.
As far as the uneven lighting, I would suggest having an even off white curtain about 2-3 meters behind you and have a steady set frontal lighting on the player. If the frontal lighting is strong enough, the background is much less important.
Simon

Simon from the Holy Land

 

[debra]

Very professional playing and the effort in the production is clearly noticeable.
As far as the uneven lighting, I would suggest having an even off white curtain about 2-3 meters behind you and have a steady set frontal lighting on the player. If the frontal lighting is strong enough, the background is much less important.
Simon

Simon from the Holy Land

The uneven lighting comes from the weather. It was partly cloudy and the sunlight (window is opposite the player) sometimes came through and sometimes a cloud changed the brightness and lighting color. Most of the effort is in the audio mixing. This piece was not too difficult so recording took maybe two hours (not bad as the piece is about 6:30 and there are 5 voices to play and I did not practice anything beforehand). The mixing was about two full days of work. (For some longer and much more difficult pieces mixing could take a whole week.) The videos are just a matter of following what the home-bound crowd is all doing now, and they are done with minimal effort. Next videos will look better again...I am learning! I care most about the audio as I am making CDs of my attempts to play my own arrangements.

 

[losthobos]

Absolutely lovely Paul.... I'm sure that was beautiful enough to alter the mind of anyone who thought they hated the sound of an accordion.... Never mind 5...thank you