Hi Ben, Bill, Glen, thanks for the kind words. You guys are beeing too kind

Glen, nice rendition without pedal, I really think works better without pedal!! I'm not purist or something, afterall I did dynamics in a Bach composition. It is just a matter of taste. I think works nice with the ornament at the end too, but Bach itself didn't write this in the originals.

BTW Bill, I wish I could play and sing these old songs as you do pretty well, I'm looking forward to play and sing Crazy Arms from Jerry Lee Lewis

cheers

For this month's piano bar, I'd like to submit my little kindergartener, who just took piano up this month. She plays a familiar little holiday song on the black keys.

I'm not really sure how this thread works, but here's a simple little song I wrote a couple of weeks ago for some friends who lost a beloved dog who wasn't even two yet.

"Dixie's Song"

That was nice. Did you get to play it for your friends?

That was lovely, cebukid70! Your daughter has a lot of potential!!

Swayingtree, I enjoyed your piece!! And, your piano has a very nice tone!

Take care,

Rick

cebukid70,
That little kindegartner-gem of yours has some real talent! Great technique, by the way.

Swayingtree,
Very nice, thoughtful piece. Thanks for sharing your music you wrote for your friends. Welcome to the Piano Bar!

Glen

Thanks, Bill and all! Nice thing about a lot of these boogie-woogie/blues songs is that they don't have millions of chords, often only the three - I, IV, V, like in this song.. Easy to remember.

The e-cital of a couple weeks ago moved me to play more classical music - at least for now.

Tonight, I found this piece in a stack of music that's been sitting idle for quite some time. The lettering is in Russian and the only numbers on it are 43 No 1. I'd like to know what it is, but have been unable to find it using my favorite search engine, so I'll call it 43 No 1 for now. It's a little rough, to say the least.

43 No 1

Here is a more serious attempt at making sense of the ever-popular first movement of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata.

Moonlight Sonata Mvt 1

Hope you like 'em

Glen

February Piano Bar submissions
Middle of the Week Blues
Bach Prelude BWV 846
That's All
Autumn Leaves
Autumn Leaves 1
Here's That Rainy Day
Moonlight in Vermont
Interlude 1
Interlude 2
Interlude 3
Interlude 4
Interlude 5
Interlude 6
Interlude 7
Interlude 8
Interlude 9
Interlude 10

A few more short pieces I started working on this month:

Enya - Watermark
Lord of the Rings - In Dreams
Lord of the Rings - Rohan Theme

They're all quite simple but still fun to play.

Augustina: nice job there!
Cebukid: cute!
Swaying Tree: That was very pretty. Thanks
Inlanding: Havent heard 43 no 1 before :P So don't know the name of that one hehe but nicely played just the same!
nicely played on Moonlight too

one last submission from me for the month:
This is Lord of the Dance arranged by Ronan Hardiman
mp3: http://www.box.net/shared/fj73qayv2n

vid: http://s821.photobucket.com/albums/zz139...doftheDance.flv

Rickster: wow! You always impress me on how you can compose and sing so easily together
Elssa: Nice boogie woogie. Was fun to listen to!
al-mahed: Very nicely played. Keep up the good work!
Anotherschmoe: Was about to post and saw you just added yours in too. The enya song was very pretty and I'm always a fan of the lord of the rings music Nicely done!

That was very nice!!

Cebukid - that brought back memories, because played the same piece out of what looks like the same book! Thanks for posting.

(I can't wait till she starts on the Joplin).

AnotherSchmoe - I listened to all 3 of your selections and enjoyed them very much. Your performances and your recordings sound quite professional.

Swaying Tree - What a lovely tune and nice tribute. I'm sure your friends a very appreciative of your thoughtfulness. Hope to hear more from you in the Bar.

Thanks for the nice comments. Since it's still February, here are two other original compositions. "Keely's Song" was written just after Christmas for a young woman who worked with my wife and was killed in a car wreck with her brother on their way home for the holiday. I wasn't going to post it since the recording is imperfect with some hesitations, but what the heck...we're all friends here.

"By the Lake" has no sad story behind it. It's just a song that popped into existence during one of my improv sessions, as does most of my music.

"Keely's Song"

"By the Lake"

SwayingTree - I listened to both Keely's Song and By the Lake. While I liked them both I found By the Lake to have a more interesting melody. Your piano has wonderful overtones - Well Done.

Alrighty, back again. First recording played completely by ear to boot! I'm more of a sheet-music person myself. But I had a sudden urge to play something from Dances With Wolves last night, scoured around for sheet music, couldn't find any! Lord of the Rings was easy to dig up online but I was having a hard time finding anything from Dances With Wolves, but I really wanted to play it anyways so this afternoon I sat down at the keyboard for awhile and worked out the melody and then made up a left-hand part to go with it, noodled around with it some and then made this recording. Let me know what you think.

Dances With Wolves - John Dunbar Theme (Piano)

Here's the original orchestral version that I listened to while picking out the melody:
Dances With Wolves - John Dunbar Theme (Original)

LOL, thanks tenleftthumbs. Dad struggles with Joplin too...perhaps I should play from the kindergarten book too. hahaha.

Very well done, AnotherSchmoe. And all the more impressive for being your first by ear effort. Arranged and played nicely, and that's a pretty song.

Thanks. I've tinkered around with picking out melodies once or twice before but this is the first time I've actually completed a piece. Usually lose interest quickly due to lack of progress. It helps that this one is short and repeats a lot.

My last post represents most of my effort from the second half of the month. On to Unit 4 in Humphries Piano Handbook. That book is working well from me, but I have the feeling it will begin outpacing my progress pretty soon.

Byron S, dont worry about it, because the book goes too fast, it is a handbook as the title says, not a compreensive course that deals with all technical dificulties step-by-step.

I have this book and I like it pretty much!

I missed a lot of your submissions this month. But today I finally had some spare time so I watched everything I missed. I hope I didn't forget anyone:

Ed
Song For My Father - Groovy! It sounds really great and professional

Elssa
AIN'T MISBEHAVIN', WAVE, ALWAYS, BOOGIE WOOGIE BUGLE BOY - You're quite good. I've listened to all your videos in this month's piano bar. Very enjoyable.

ladypayne
Amazing Grace, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, Lord of the Dance - Great job on these pieces.

Augustina & ladypayne
pachelbell - I didn't hear this for some time. Thanks for reminding me this beautiful piece.

Augustina
Sadness and Sorrow and Hokage Funeral, Hallelujah - Nice, good work on these pieces

Glen
Middle of the Week Blues - You've managed to create perfect bluesy mood, pleasure to listen.
Moonlight in Vermont - Perfect
43 No 1 and Moonlight Sonata Mvt 1 - Both perfect. I vote for more classical music from you :-)

mcasl
I didn't know this beethoven's piece. Thanks for discovering it for me :-} I'm looking forward for the rest of it.

CebuKid
Für Elise - very nice, I enjoyed your playing.

jazzwee
My Romance - I like it a lot. Thanks for posting it.

Rick
I can read your mind, Not just a love reaction - I wish I could play like that some day. And sing... well that's not gonna happen :-(

Larry B
Nocturne - Just wonderful. Your playing is perfect.

Byron S
Purcell - No need to be embaraced, I find your playing to be very good.

Musictuary
Nice work, I like 'Sunshine' the most.

ten left thumbs
Five stars - Your playing is perfect an your piano sounds really great. I've enjoyed you submission to this month's piano bar very much.

josuff247
Minuet, by Leopold Mozart - Good work, keep up with it.

jotur
Catharsis, Rights of Man/Delahunty's Hornpipe - Very refreshing the hear something different. I like it a lot.

al-mahed
PRELUDE BWV 846 - I've nothing to critisize on your performance. Your playing was very nice.

SwayingTree
Dixie's Song, Keely's Song, By the Lake - Perfect, Very emotional pieces, I really like it.

AnotherSchmoe
Watermark, In Dreams, Rohan Theme, Dances With Wolves - Good work on all of those, but Watermark is my favourite.

Finally got a midi to usb thing. Here's me playing Chopin Nocturne Op. 9 No.2





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Rui, that was beautiful!

Thank you for you kind words!