Three - Piano, Live
 ThreeMK1
ThreeMK2, 2:54
Right-Click CD to Download. Let me know which is better. | Three was the first piece composed after switching from my Baldwin Accrosonic spinnet style piano to my Roland HP-237 digital piano. It sounds like it is 6/4 or 3/4 timing, but it isn't. Its 4/4, but with a bass line made up entirely of eighth notes cycling through three-note cords. Short, normally only about three minutes long, although if I'm feeling a groove I'll extend the second half (during which the eighth note progressions make way for block chords) until I think I'm done--which is a few minutes after everyone else thinks I'm done! This tune is actually very simple to play, although the last half includes some improvisation on the right-hand, so it sounds different each time. This is my first time using the laptop to record, and I've made two separate MP3 files of the same performance, just slightly different audio settings.. Please let me know which one sounds better, and why. |
posted by SafeTinspector at 12:55 AM
6 Comments:
Three MK2 is the better of these two. reminds me vaguely of my favorite piano piece: 'canadian sunset' . . . it was a big hit in the late 50's early 60's and my mother had a 45-recording that I can still recall to this day.
Keep this blog going! I think it is unique and wonderful.
Thanks!
I'm unfamiliar with "Canadian Sunset," and I think I'll try to look it up.
I'll probably post an 8-bit FM synth arrangement during the week, but there won't be another live piano peice until next Saturday.
Was this the song you were speaking of?
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?playlistId=66790013&selectedItemId=66789451
Yes and no. This version is too fast and Hugo Winterhalter's version is sooo much better (maybe because of the violins?) Try this link for a snippit of the real deal.
Yes, I like that version much more. I can almost see a similarity, but Hugo's piano is far more intricately arranged and better performed, not to mention far more up-beat, than mine.
Very interesting.
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