VANCOUVER BC CANADA KITSILANO to ARBUTUS GREENWAY & LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN's SONATA #20 + a bit more

Описание: Some of those clouds are pretty impressive in this video...

I'm wondering why most people give up on the piano. I suppose playing the piano really isn't much use to society unless you're a piano teacher. It's useful for networking but then you have be pretty good (how many piano players get to the level of joining a group of string players -- not many). So, most people get tired of being alone. And then there's the repertoire. Some of it easy... and then some of it's so impossibly hard that you have to question what's the point of continuing when there's other activities that are more fun like playing video games... playing soccer with your friends. And finally, those strict teachers that make playing miserable are around... what's the point of psychologically punishing young people to make them think that getting through a stupid Brahms rhapsody is the most important thing in the world?

That being said, I just watched a video of Boris Giltburg talking in detail about Beethoven Sonata 3:

   • Behind the Notes – Boris Giltburg introduc...  

By the way, I'm biking in the Kitsilano area at the beginning. Most locals call this area Kits. After that I manage to find the Arbutus Greeway which is a nice way to travel north - south or vice versa in the west side of Vancouver. Not too sure what's up with the construction around the Kerrisdale area... but that's around where this video ends.

I should mentioned I'm playing some music by Beethoven. This was from his rococco period where Clementi sent him emails on how to modulate the B section to C and D. You'll notice that around the 10 minute mark in this recording.

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Keyboard: Yamaha YDP-S35
VIDEO EDITOR: NEC Videopad Video Editor
Bike: Bianchi Via Nirone 7
Camera: GoPro Hero 12
Recording device: ZOOM (H4)
Sheet music: HENLE
Music by MR BEETHOVEN