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  • 03-08-2005 12:47pm
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    goz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12 ✭


    Hey guys, just wandering if anybody could tell me what the piece is that Rachmaninov wrote tht apparently drove people crackers trying to learn the finger combinations to it. I think it was featured in a film but i don't know which one


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    banquo
    Registered Users Posts: 9,487 ✭✭✭banquo


    You mean the "Rach 3" - Rachmaninov's 3 piano concerto.

    Yeah, eh, good luck with that...


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    JackKelly
    Registered Users Posts: 3,225 ✭✭✭JackKelly


    lol. Ye, i hope your not planning on learning it. Great piece though. It's in the film "Shine". The piece drives him insane. Set a few years of your life aside to master that one.


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    goz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12 ✭goz


    Thanks guys. just wanna transcribe it to different instruments to see if the difficulty is still there


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    banquo
    Registered Users Posts: 9,487 ✭✭✭banquo


    I know a guy who's been trying to play it since he was 15, and he was a child piano prodigy! He's pretty close, but it's still impossibly diffucult. You need huge hands, an amazing short term memory, and you need to know the piece inside out before you could play. And as with nearly all Rach's stuff, most of the tension is in the added notes so you really can't simplify it down the way you could a Mozart or Haydn piece.

    edit: link to an mp3 : Rach 3, 1st mov.

    it's a free mp3; ok to link to.


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