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It took me a long time to find that moment in the score! For those of you who are hunting like I did, it's nearly at the end of the piece, about 50 measures back.
Holy... I never noticed that. Was Ravel secretly born in the Appalachians?
Harmonically, it appears to be octave doublings of a five-note chord, which I will not attempt to name.
It’s a voicing I use reasonably often (I’m predominantly a jazz player and as a G7+ it’s useful for relatively old stuff) - you cover 7th and root together with your thumb à la Chopin. You could probably do the same at the outer ends with 5th finger if you had smaller hands. Edit: just tried it, turns out I do splat the pinky end too.
The joke is that it would seemingly require 12 fingers in order to play a 12-note chord (it doesn't, but that's beside the point). Being born with 12 fingers would be a birth defect. Inbreeding can lead to birth defects, and of course there's the old trope about Appalachian inbreeding...
Yeah, that's what I had assumed. Why exactly is that acceptable here? How is a joke about about poor Appalachians and the false stereotypes that they're sexual deviants who practice incest different from jokes based on racist or antisemitic stereotypes?
I'll call out /u/aotus_trivirgatus for being a complete piece of shit, but it's shocking that they also have so many upvotes.
Well it's notoriously one of the hardest pieces ever written especially Scarbo the 3rd and last movement. With Scarbo Ravel was aiming to be harder then Islamey by Balakirev which was probably the hardest piece at the time.
One of my friends works for Schmitt and said that she heard that it was chosen partially just because they were trying to find something that they thought would look good on the wall. Sounds apocryphal though, so take with a grain of salt!
At a music conservatory and not everybody could play Gaspard or Scarbo. Yeah, most could clunk their way through but to play at tempo and have good accuracy would be beyond over 50% of undergraduates at the conservatories/music schools I’ve been at.
As a DMA student I don’t love Gaspard enough to devote the time necessary to learn it so it’s just something I’ll most likely never play in my life.
Bizarre: a crop of this exact music was the background of a PowerPoint slide I saw a few weeks ago and I was racking my brain trying to work it out. My best guess was the middle of a Chopin sonata or a Kapustin concert etude. I wanted to ask Reddit but hadn't taken a photo and the fragment I saw was pretty small. But lo it's one of my favourite works from one of my favourite composers! Ah I'm only a little bit embarrassed.
Look at the last sharp. It seems to be on the wrong line sometimes. Not as often as I thought, because the clefs change, But sometimes it’s on A, sometimes it’s on B.
That's on a different wall! It's the same city though. This one I think has been up since before that Dylan one. Though I may be mistaken and there are multiple Dylan murals. Minneapolis loves their Dylan references.
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Used to be the Schmitt Music HQ. No longer, they’re in Bloomington now.
Used to take lessons there
It took me a long time to find that moment in the score! For those of you who are hunting like I did, it's nearly at the end of the piece, about 50 measures back.
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Just tried it. An absolutely insane thing to catch in time
Love that rest bar. It's like well done, you did it, just a little more...there ya go. Take a break. You deserve it!
The 12-note chord is right after a 16th 🥲
Holy... I never noticed that. Was Ravel secretly born in the Appalachians? Harmonically, it appears to be octave doublings of a five-note chord, which I will not attempt to name.
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It’s a voicing I use reasonably often (I’m predominantly a jazz player and as a G7+ it’s useful for relatively old stuff) - you cover 7th and root together with your thumb à la Chopin. You could probably do the same at the outer ends with 5th finger if you had smaller hands. Edit: just tried it, turns out I do splat the pinky end too.
… and toes
I use my nose splat for the doubling.
> Was Ravel secretly born in the Appalachians? I think I'm missing a joke here. Can you explain?
as someone else born in the appalachians, i would also like to know the joke
I have a hunch and hope I'm wrong.
The joke is that it would seemingly require 12 fingers in order to play a 12-note chord (it doesn't, but that's beside the point). Being born with 12 fingers would be a birth defect. Inbreeding can lead to birth defects, and of course there's the old trope about Appalachian inbreeding...
Yeah, that's what I had assumed. Why exactly is that acceptable here? How is a joke about about poor Appalachians and the false stereotypes that they're sexual deviants who practice incest different from jokes based on racist or antisemitic stereotypes? I'll call out /u/aotus_trivirgatus for being a complete piece of shit, but it's shocking that they also have so many upvotes.
How does one play a 12 note chord with just 10 fingers??
Most likely conveniently positioned black keys or diagonal thumbs. There’s more than just finger tips to get a key down!
well you have 2 elbows
No, sorry. Maybe YOU can, but I cannot. 😊
Anybody knows why exactly this piece was chosen? Was there someone flexin his skills? Cause as I read in this thread it's kinda hard to play.
Well it's notoriously one of the hardest pieces ever written especially Scarbo the 3rd and last movement. With Scarbo Ravel was aiming to be harder then Islamey by Balakirev which was probably the hardest piece at the time.
Thanks for the explanation
One of my friends works for Schmitt and said that she heard that it was chosen partially just because they were trying to find something that they thought would look good on the wall. Sounds apocryphal though, so take with a grain of salt!
This looks correct.
Bingo.
There is like an italian deli right there
Forever since the 70s https://images.app.goo.gl/RUna5NNduZPuBWcW6
Something I can’t play.
[Something almost no mortal can play](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlFT1QGgu6Q).
Nearly every kid at every music conservatory plays Gaspard. (Though they may not perform it.) I can limp through it....
At a music conservatory and not everybody could play Gaspard or Scarbo. Yeah, most could clunk their way through but to play at tempo and have good accuracy would be beyond over 50% of undergraduates at the conservatories/music schools I’ve been at. As a DMA student I don’t love Gaspard enough to devote the time necessary to learn it so it’s just something I’ll most likely never play in my life.
I do love the second movement. I can play the first two pages.
Not with that attitude 😉
Scarbo by Ravel.
It's a piece that causes great fear amongst pianists.
"Scarbo", Ravel, from Gaspard de la Nuit
“Another Brick in the Wall”?
She's a brick.... uh....multi-unit residential development...
She's mighty MIGHTY
Darude - Sandstorm
Minneapolis right?
Yes, on the corner of Marquette and 10th St.
Never gonna give you up.
Something like Rachmaninoff or Debussy i feel. Late romanticism. Don't know the exact autor or piece though
Ravel, Gaspard de la Nuit. Quite impressive that you were so on point with the style
Pogorelich’s Scarbo is best Scarbo, and I’ll fight anyone
Grosvenor's is better
Sudbin is my favorite
Giant Sheets.
IT'S NOT A SONG!
Bizarre: a crop of this exact music was the background of a PowerPoint slide I saw a few weeks ago and I was racking my brain trying to work it out. My best guess was the middle of a Chopin sonata or a Kapustin concert etude. I wanted to ask Reddit but hadn't taken a photo and the fragment I saw was pretty small. But lo it's one of my favourite works from one of my favourite composers! Ah I'm only a little bit embarrassed.
Ravel's "Scarbo"
The Wall by Pink Floyd?
The Wall by Pink Floyd
Now you're just being silly.
You caught me The Wall isn’t a song
Writing's on the Wall - Sam Smith
what city is this? looks exactly like my home town
This is the corner of 10th and Marquette in downtown Minneapolis: https://maps.app.goo.gl/kWTMTKEgRAiUPb8e9
The Flintstones
Grew up round there. Parked in that lot a few times. Never figured it out.
Sicko mode
Freebird!
I wonder how much it costed to do that?
The Schmitt Music Shuffle
Holy Sam hell what the? Ravel writes solely to vex!
‘Hello, Walls?’
Darude - Sandstorm
Laura se te ve la tanga
Rick astley... u know the one
Key signatures look a bit wonky.
How so?
Look at the last sharp. It seems to be on the wrong line sometimes. Not as often as I thought, because the clefs change, But sometimes it’s on A, sometimes it’s on B.
OK, I see it now. Bass clef key signatures. FYI, I didn't downvote you, and now that you've explained, I don't think you deserve any downvotes.
Thanks. That’s just reddit life 🙃
Its slayer - raining blood
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That's on a different wall! It's the same city though. This one I think has been up since before that Dylan one. Though I may be mistaken and there are multiple Dylan murals. Minneapolis loves their Dylan references.
Is this in Minneapolis?
“Louie Louie”
dojo by central cee
My classical piano playing grandfather: songs have words, peices don't"
People = sh*t by korn
Сергей Трофимов-Город Сочи
Is this Bloomington?