The clowns

• Jul 13, 2015 - 21:26

Hey, I decided to show off this piece I made. I wrote this out of sheer madness.
This piece, I wrote after hearing some epic insanely hard pieces on Musescore. I decided to top those pieces by writing this. This is the first of a collection I will call the impossibles.
One thing to think about is why I would call this piece the clowns.
Don't expect me to be able to play this. I wonder though, if there is a pianist out there who could play this perfectly.

Here's the link:

https://musescore.com/user/2679191/scores/1048181


Comments

In reply to by normanhart

You liked that, you'll love this (download and play in MuseScore 2 for the better piano sound):

https://musescore.com/user/110286/scores/185645

This is the ultimate example of those "epic insanely hard pieces" Elwin mentioned, and was featured for a time in the Start Center, where now ericfontainejazz's "Moonlight Sonata (Jazz Lead Sheet)" is. (By the way, I've asked several times before and nobody has ever answered: How is the featured score chosen, who does the choosing, and how often are they supposed to choose a new one?)

I found Measure 39 somewhat challenging. I think my right distal radio-ulnar joint now has a bit more free play in it than before. Thing is, it's actually musically pretty good.

In reply to by Elwin

Please do not feel bad. The only limb that was being manipulated was one of the lower ones of Zack and even that was only having some gentle traction applied to it. Your piece is, of course, unplayable with less than four hands - even if I do have 6 fingers on one of them but the more usual 7 on the other two.

In reply to by Elwin

Consider carefully underquark's comment: "The only limb that was being manipulated was one of the lower ones of Zack and even that was only having some gentle traction applied to it." Try rephrasing it, saying the same thing in a simpler way—perhaps something along the line of "a leg was being pulled"—and you may find an alternative idiomatic meaning which may shed some light on the situation.

In reply to by Isaac Weiss

From what you told me, it's either, he doesn't really know how to play this piece, he was only joking around. Or, he actually did dislocate his wrist doing something else. I'm pretty bad at idioms like this, so it would be easier if you just explained this straightforward.

In reply to by Elwin

Okay, okay. He never actually attempted to play the piece, his wrist is fine (though incidentally I hyperextended my own right wrist this morning and it's seriously paining me; any advice?), and all the rest of the discussion had been tongue-in-cheek (if that's also an unfamiliar idiom, the point is we've all been joking). As to the traction applied to the lower appendage, see http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/pull+leg.

In reply to by Isaac Weiss

Yeah. I get it. Although, it would be epic if someone actually could play the piece. I attempted one section on the piano. (The one in the key of B-flat) it was insane. I called this piece the clowns, because I looked forward to laughing at people attempting to play this, but it seems like the clowns bombarded me with idioms.

I created a new piece called "showdown" in attempt to top this one. View it and let me know which one's more, epic, insane, impossible, etc.

In reply to by Elwin

Awesome! Maybe you should write one with the name "tendonitis"...makes "one piano, four hands" take on a whole new meaning.

The remarks sort of remind me of John Stump's comments.

Something occurred to me: Showdown, at least, and probably the Clowns too, could be arranged for a string or sax quartet and piano (strings playing right hand, piano playing left hand). They'd still be insanely hard, but maybe playable.

And now for some weirdness from Grieg: here's his piano arrangement of the Peer Gynt Suite . Turn to page 9, Anitra's Dance. Looks simple enough...then check out the section that starts in the third bar of the last system of the second page and ends in the fifth bar of the second system of the third page. It's playable, but only just.

(If those directions are confusing, I'll post a picture...)

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