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Elssa - that's a nice take on a great song. I've tried it on and off but never happy with the chords. Do you have a chord sheet for your version?

Elssa - an outstanding rendition of one of my favorite tunes! This song fits your style perfectly.

Elssa, that was great...

Thanks, everyone, for your kind remarks! :-)

Thanks, Newman: Well, I usually just take a plain E-Z leadsheet like this one and then reharmonize a few of the chords*, add in some of my runs/fills & stuff:

Over the Rainbow: http://www.wikifonia.org/node/13044

*For example, play a G7b9 rather than G7, A7b9 in place of A7, etc.

Ben piano - Nice nice! Traumerai is an old standard. Clair de Lune next?

Elssa - that`ll never go out of fashion, relaxed easy listening. What a beast you`re playing! I notice your fingers tend to remain near the edge of the keyboard. Wish I could do that wi mine . . .

BenPiano - Traumerei - I like this one. I'd like it even if you submitted it every month.

Elssa, Somewhere Over the Rainbow - nice styling of this classic

Ive been trying out my new ipad just a little fun video, messing around.

Its very cool this ipad though and so easy to upload to youtube just wish I could get a better angle. Anyone managed to get something above the keyboard with their ipad? and if so how did you do it?

Trying out my new ipad - simple jam session


Lee

Popping in to say hi to Seaside! It's great to hear from you. Don't be such a stranger! Hope all is going well for you.

Seaside Lee, there are many third party accessories available to serve to mount your iPad. Check Google.

Allard: Brilliant thanks I have ordered a stand, I'll do something better soon as I get it


Monica!!!

Hi, life's just been so busy but I will try to post again more often

Lovely to hear from you


Lee

I was gonna make a suitable mounting facility and nail it to the cupboard above my head. That`ll please `er indoors . . . but if I can buy something to match the furniture . . well, could be in business!

Hi Peter

I've just ordered this from amazon in the UK

Ipad Mount

I'm hoping it will be just what I need


Lee

Hey, Seaside, I`m much obliged! That could save me a lot o` time. I`ll look into it now Cheers man

Seaside - I enjoyed the foot stomping passages!

Thanks Newman

I was just fooling around really. Just testing my new toy but that angle is not good enough. Hope the new mount works really well because uploading to YouTube is a piece of cake

Here is a new arrangement.
Miss Miller of Glenlee's Strathspey from William Shepherd's 1st collection.
The playing is still a bit rough (especially the 4 on 3 bits)

https://www.box.com/s/q0a0niyzfw6uahhs08jp

I had a couple other arrangements in the queue, but this one wouldn't let so. It even made me play hooky from my regular assigned pieces.

It is influenced by Grieg's Nocturne Op 54 no 4, but I don't know if anyone else will hear it.

Stumbler - Are all srathspey's named after women? And is that in 6/8?

Newman, I don't think all strathspey's are named after women, but all of the ones in the William Shepherd collections are. I've been using his collections as source material for learning arrangement. I obtained the fiddle scores from the Highland Music Trust. They don't have a lot of information on Mr. Shepherd. I wonder if he was obtaining funding by offering to name his compositions after people. "Hey Mr. Miller, I bet your wife would love it if you paid to have a strathspey composed for her"

Strathspeys are normally in 4/4, though this one was 2/2 in the original. I scored it as 4/4, but the left hand is all triplets.