So guess we should start the next month's bar and since nobody else has done it yet I'll do the honors again! =) I'm submitting the Titanic song lol. U guys hear they are making it in 3D? Anyone actually going to see it? I'll pass myself. Not a big fan of the movie but I love the music! I of course was playing around with my new music software also when I did this. Hope you enjoy the audio editing too! Love my new software =) I think the sound in piano is better as well!

My Heart Will Go On
http://www.box.com/s/ag1t989ey43eivtbqf9l

Good start Ladypayne! That is a beautiful song.

ladyPayne ~ Good job on that it sounds great. I will definitely NOT be going to see Titanic in 3D. Some of my family members are big fans of the movie so I've watched that ship sink more times than I care to remember.

Excellent job ladypayne! I am so happy for your excitement with your DAW.
Allthough I do love seeing leonardo de craprio drown, I cannot watch it again.

factoid: Robin Glibb of the bee gees will be cashing in on the Anniversary of 1,496 lost souls this aprill, when it is exactly a hundred years since the demise of the titanic.

He is releasing an albumn he has been working on with ( I believe) The london symphony orchestra, or philharmonic, cant quite remember.

This Aprill, being the 100th year "anniversary" of that tragic event, will no doubt see "all things Titanic" being sold left right and centre, cue the return of the "Pink and pleasent plastic Icon company of Del Rio texas"

who will no doubt be selling Pink and pleasent plastic replica Titanics for just two dollars+ PP.
All items come complete with fully removable lost souls.

Very beautifully played, ladypayne. It's one of those strange coincidences for me personally, that the piano bar starts with this song. I was watching an interview with a man here in Iceland, who survived after his ship sunk south-east of Norway. He witnessed his shipmates being taken by the ocean and one of them died in his arms.

The interview can be watched with english subtitles (might be unaccessible because of overload.)

http://www.ruv.is/frett/kastljos/interview-eirikur-ingi-rikki

Anyway, great start of the piano bar.

Very, very excellent, ladypayne! Good sound from your new set-up and you played the music so beautifully.

Pianotehead: My grandfather, (skipper of the Stella Carina) lost his life taking supplies to Iceland in the 2ndWW...

He was taking passage on board the SS Bellona11, 8pm, 8th oct 1940... ten souls lost.

Three months earlier he had rescued 10 men from the north sea when the SS Albano drifted into a minefield and sank in less than two mins.

He picked up men out of the freezing water at night, in the dark, some of them clinging on to live mines, screaming.
They wrote letters to the newspapers describing how they owed their lives to his remarkable seamanship.

No medal, no hollywood movie.

That was great, Ladypayne! Very soothing and pleasant to listen to...

I'll try to get something new recorded soon. I've been really busy at work and haven't taken the time to work on something new...

Hey, that sounds like a good idea for a new song... "something new".

Great start to the Feb. piano bar!

Rick

ladypayne - like you I'm not a huge fan of the movie but I love this song and your performance captures the wistful, romantic mood of the original. I'm very impressed with your new found engineering and editing talents in addition to your acknowledged skills at the keyboard.

I'd like to follow up Ladypayne's somewhat nautical song with another somewhat nautical tune. This song was thought to be written in 1913 and was used as a farewell song for Māori soldiers leaving for the 1st World War.

Rostosky, I'm very sorry to hear that. I'm sure many people of the UK have grandparents and even parents who died in the war, because Britain was in the forefront of the battle, along with the United States of course. My father's brother was in a boat attacked by a German submarine (survived), but apart from sailors, our people were not put in danger at the time. At least one Icelander was in the RAF.

But sorry, it was not my intention to mislead the piano bar, just had to get this off my chest.

Pianotehead, these were merchant men, there was an Icelander on board who also lost his life. :SIGURDSSON, Bergsteinn.

Bill,
This is calming, poignant, and very pretty. Such a sweet piece of music. I really enjoyed how sensitively you played it.

Thanks Rostosky, didn't know this. Bill, I have this song on a Bing Crosby disk, very beautiful. You sing and play it excellently, as always in your covers.

LadyPayne: Beautiful song. I watched that movie a gazillion times simply to hear that song. I think your version is very beautiful.

Bill: Nice. I know this song from somewhere? It's a very soothing song.

BillM, I enjoyed that. I like that your playing is smooth, with no hesitations.

It reminds me of Aloha Oe, a farewell song from Hawaii.

excellent job BillM , and for those that are too young to know, The great and wonderfull gracie fields brought this song to prominence, and Vera lynn also sang it.. to our troups.
The origin of the song is under arguament!!

You sang it well Bill.

Good choice Bill, and great job as always.

Wow, I love a natical romantic theme almost as much as a dark gypsy romantic theme.

Rossy, I always knew you had heroic blood flowing through your veins.

LP, the variety and level of performance of your frequent offerings make me click whenever I see your name, and I'm almost never disappointed. Very nice.

Bill, um, I remember singing songs like this when I took some private singing lessons years ago, but I know this song from early cinema. I hope you are enjoying your lessons, because if this is the result, I sure am. Like LP, I love your versatility. Is there any style you can't play?

I may be totally wrong so please correct me if I am being presumptuous, but I am sticking my neck out here, I dont think Bill does "grunge" or "death metal" Not that he couldnt if he wanted to, I think he just chooses not to.

The only presumption might be that everyone would agree on the same performance style actually constituting music. I should have been more specific and said "any style of music...." I think anything that Bill heard as music he could play as music. But then again, he might be able to take something that someone else didn't hear that way and play it in a way that made it make musical sense even to them. [lol]

Hola

Haven't posted any recording in a while. I found this recording on my digital piano of the first few pages of Rach's famous prelude. I was quite surprised at how good it sounded, at least in humble opinion, and had to share it with you even though it's just the alla marcia part and start of the meno mosso.

This link should work:
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Haven't work on it for quite some time but I'm picking it up again and was surprised at how well I still remembered the notes. I also found a recording of the moonlight sonata that I apparently played better back when I first stared practicing that piece.

edit, working link

ladypayne, that was beautifully played. SO you played the piano part on a digital piano and added the other sounds later on or was it all created with this program? Nevertheless I enjoyed listening to it.

Bill - very nicely done - serene - calming - arresting. Thanks

It says I have to log in to gain access. Is there a way you can make it public?

LP - can't seem to get the box link to work - just me?

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does this work?

Yes, thanks. Good job on the Rach! enjoyed it.

Bill, what a lovely song, very serene and captivating. Well done as always

GrouchoMarX, lovely rach.!! May I ask how you got it out of your digital piano, did you for instance record it playing back with a mic?

OR, did you send the midi into a music program, and if so which program?

Just for info as it sounds very good.....