18 thoughts on “Best FZ Covers: G-Spot Piano by Vika”

  4. Wow.

    I’m waiting for Wing Tipped Shoes to come and praise her, because she is amazing and he should.

  5. I’m not Wing Tipped Shoes but i’m praising her anyway. I’m not an active musician myself but it must be damn hard to play a classic peace were the composer left the master vanilla version that your interpretation has to stand up against. (And with us geeks around who have listened to that original version over and over for decades…)

    She does incredibly well, only a few tiny mistakes here and there in the left hand and she misses some of the tiny pauses that the JFH version has in the upper hand. But anyway, this is a tough task accomplished excellently. Kudos!

    BTW: She sells sheet music of this piece. Doesn’t this conflict with ZFT business? GZ lawyer hordes: Charge! :-))

  6. Nice effort on Vika’s part. I do have a criticism though (sorry to be a killjoy): way too much pedal. Anybody can sound good if they use a lot of pedal. Damper pedal is a crutch. The musical problem is that it blurs everything. If you listen to any official version of this piece, you hear that it’s vital that everything be distinct, i.e. not blurred.

    Kudos to Vika for the effort though.

  11. It doesn’t look sped up to me. And even if it was recorded at half speed, it’s still a pretty difficult piece to play.

  12. [quote post=”3605″]The video is speed up… How can nobody notice that?
    And the playing is… *awful*[/quote]

    Sped up? I don’t think so either. ‘Awfull’? C’mon, it’s not awful. It’s a little sloppy technically (too much pedal, for one thing), and stylistically I think it’s very misguided – she plays it as if it were *romantic*, like from the 19th century, with a lot of rubato, tenutos, etc.; if there’s anything Frank and his music *weren’t* it’s ROMANTIC, in any sense of that word. But it is a difficult piece and she makes a good effort.

  14. [quote post=”3605″]I could not do that if I lived to be 500 years old.[/quote]

    It’s not THAT hard a piece – if you were a pianist with decent technique, you wouldn’t have to live 500 years.

    I’d also note that – let’s face it folks – part of the appeal here is that this is a nice looking, stylish, non-doughy, non-American young woman playing. If it was an old ugly fat Anglo-American In Dacron playing this piece, with the same somewhat sloppy technique, and stylistically as if it were a piece by Chopin, there would be a lot more negative comments, I bet.

  15. [quote comment=”11262″]let’s face it folks – part of the appeal here is that this is a nice looking, stylish, non-doughy, non-American young woman playing. If it was an old ugly fat Anglo-American In Dacron playing this piece, with the same somewhat sloppy technique, and stylistically as if it were a piece by Chopin, there would be a lot more negative comments, I bet.[/quote]
    Thanks for making me spew coffee on my monitor, jonnybutter 😀

  16. Yes! It’s obvious that a cute young woman named ‘Vika’ is going to be a better musician than an old knish named ‘Larry’.

    Hope you’re monitor isn’t sticky!

  17. [quote comment=”11262″][quote post=”3605″]I could not do that if I lived to be 500 years old.[/quote]

    It’s not THAT hard a piece – if you were a pianist with decent technique, you wouldn’t have to live 500 years.

    I’d also note that – let’s face it folks – part of the appeal here is that this is a nice looking, stylish, non-doughy, non-American young woman playing. If it was an old ugly fat Anglo-American In Dacron playing this piece, with the same somewhat sloppy technique, and stylistically as if it were a piece by Chopin, there would be a lot more negative comments, I bet.[/quote]

    Apparently, VIKA figures out the pieces and writes them down and plays them. She practiced this for two days before she recorded the video. I wouldn’t care if it was Jabba the Hut playing this, I thought it was above and beyond.

    Tired ol’ internet sniping and carping and talk of “sloppy technique” does not distract me from what an accomplishment this is. Sure she misses some notes in this video, but check out the mp3 version from her website. I have heard Project/Object leave out entire difficult sections of Zappa pieces.

  18. [quote post=”3605″]She practiced this for two days before she recorded the video. [/quote]

    Pretty good for two days practice.

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