Have Some Chopin

I managed to record myself playing Chopin's prelude in B minor.

I am amazed at how crappy my digital recorder is. If I knew of a better brand, I'd buy it tomorrow. There's tons of hiss, the notes of ordinary loudness sound like cannon shots, and the quiet notes sound like a banjo.

Listening to this, I realize that I took my teacher way too seriously when he told me to play it "incredibly" slowly. I'll try to redo it at a more realistic tempo.

I tried jazzing up the timing, but my teacher put the kibosh on that, so it sort of plods along like I have a metronome up my rear end.

It's way more complicated than it sounds. You have to pedal over and over, and you have to shift the melody from one hand to the other, and there's a place where you play chords while emphasizing one note and barely playing the others.

I'm just thrilled that my memory is good enough to get me through it with no catastrophic screwups.

I Cheated

Just like a damn lawyer. I just substituted the faster version.