Recently, I’ve been learning some new piano music both by myself and in duets with my friends. A few pieces include “It Takes Three To Tango” with my sister and our family friend, and “For The First Time In Forever” in a duet with my sister. One of the pieces I am now learning (a duet with another family friend) is called The Sleeping Beauty Waltz (Valse no. 6) by Tchaikovsky, arr. Rachmaninoff. I’m really excited about learning this, because it’s really beautiful! It features the classic Sleeping Beauty theme that everyone knows, with really nice trills, harmonies, and articulation. Here’s a video of it on YouTube (this is not me playing.)
At first, I thought this piece was so pretty, but so long! It’s about 16 pages long, but playing it all the way through took a long time for me, especially while I was still learning the notes. As I continued learning it, though, it didn’t seem as challenging as before. Now, I can play the whole thing through and I’m working on playing it together with my friend. Obviously, I have only just started learning, so there’s still much more technique and expression that I can do with this piece, but I’m much farther along than I was just a week ago. My part is the upper part (part one) and it is completely in the treble clef. I’m having a lot of fun learning and playing this, and hopefully I can post a video of me playing it one day.
Love, Emily 