Just stumbled across this recording, not sure if it has been shared here before but anyway, I enjoyed it a lot. Is this the best version of this song? (possibly just after the one on the Kate Bush tv show from 1970s).
Hi all, just a general question to the talented and experienced folks here. I understand that pianist fingering can be very individual ( some of us have small hands, some large, and the musical context is also very important) but I wondered if anyone has ideas/proposals about the following:
I am practising some phrases/patterns which include repeated ascending ninths (something I found at the end of lots of Bill Evans transcriptions and sounds fab as a way to end piano solo pieces) - an example would be (C#) D F# A C# E, (C# D F# A C# E.... higher octave, etc etc) *
[*sounds especially nice over an Em chord, for example]
Essentially, I am trying to solidify the best fingering for my hands. So far I have good fingerings for most shapes, but I get stuck on the following ones, mostly because of how many black notes are involved: Bmaj9 and F#maj9
In all the others I find good places to put my RH thumb underneath to repeat the phrase, sometimes in one place ( using all five fingers) and sometimes in two places (it just flows easier on some arpeggios that way) - but I cannot work out where or how to put my thumb under when I am playing almost exclusively black notes. It feels too much of a stretch to go thumb under from Db to F, for example.
TL;DR : how do you guys finger long ninth arpeggios that are 90% on black notes, and what do you do about the thumb crossing under? Any preferential places on the keyboard for example?
Thanks in advance!
Hi all, if anyone has a proposal how to respond I would be grateful. My situation: lived and worked in Berlin since 2015, kids in school here, wife also worked here. Application for my Citizenship (all documents present) went in in Feb 2025. My eldest daughter who was over 16, was able to submit a separate application already in Nov 2024 and received her Einburgerung in Dec 2025. She now has Deutsche Passport. My own application included my younger daughter as a child (under 16), and this is the one that has now dragged on for a long time. Unfortunately in August 2025 I was made redundant by my firm after 20 years and have been struggling to find work in Berlin since then. I have taken a full time B2 Sprachkurs and passed the exam, but it doesnt seem to change my job chances that much.
However today I received the following message from the LEA "vielen Dank für Ihre Mitteilung vom 13.03.2026. Da Sie aktuell in der Bewerbungsphase befinden, möchte ich Ihnen eine Rückstellung Ihrer Anträge bis zum 01.11.2026 anbieten. Bitte teilen Sie mir mit, ob Sie mit dieser Verfahrensweise einverstanden sind. Falls Sie oder Ihre Ehefrau vorher Arbeitsverträge abschließen, können Sie mich auch vorher darüber informieren."
This looks like they want to put my application on the shelf until November 2026. Can they do this? Do I have to agree to it? ( they ask me if I am 'einverstanden'). After 10 years paying taxes in Germany and bringing my kids up here I really wanted to apply for citizenship for the kids more than myself, but this seems like it isnt going forward unless I (and my wife) can get well paid jobs in an increasingly difficult job market (we are both in our 50s and worked in international education in Berlin (therefore mostly in English language)).
The hardest part is, that when I applied I was in a full-time job and had been working here for ten years. The Einburgerung process took so long that it still wasnt complete when I was made redundant 8 months later. And that apparently changed everything about my eligibility?
Frustrated and disappointed, any advice or commiserations welcome :-)
Video here : https://youtu.be/PjdYCd9d2eo
Amateur audio tinkerer here, I recently was introduced in this forum to this great clip from French tv (original is here : https://youtu.be/uwe\_qsngFE0) and thought to myself "Hey, I wonder if I can use Logic Pro stem splitter to separate the parts and use all the audio tools in Logic to maybe enhance the audio quality?".... Well I'm no audio engineer (just a hobbyist) but I was still happy with the results, which I am posting here in case someone wants to watch/listen. Music starts at about 1:00.
Mostly I wanted to increase stereo width, define instruments more clearly, improve lower end sounds and reduce noise and hiss. There's only so far you can go with an old recording. But man, PG's voice still gives me chills on these songs 👍👍
Comments welcome, no copyright infringement intended :-)