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I've decided to start releasing my piano music as albums on a variety of streaming sites, including Spotify, Amazon Music, and iHeart radio.
As a result, I will no longer adding new songs to the podcast.
I will be releasing songs under the name "If Pianos Could".
Below you can find links to my first album, "Opening Moves".
Thanks for listening to Piano Journeys!
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This song is an attempt to have a unique, quirky feel to it, unlike most of my other pieces.
After the performance was done (which was on a single take), I realized I might have been influenced by a new Tori Amos song I heard yesterday. Nothing specific, but perhaps her quirky creativity inspired me somehow, hence the title.
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This piece features a driving beat on a single note accompanied by chords every few beats, and is more about rhythm than anything else.
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In this song rather than focus on atmosphere, I tried to develop a melody.
Because I forgot to turn off Wifi on my phone when recording, I got static during one part and had to cut around 20 seconds from 0:50, but I tried to keep the transition smooth.
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In this song I didn't hesitate to use many of my traditional phrases and chords, but instead focused on playing with them emotion, and telling a story.
Sometimes the song title hits me midway through playing, but this time I had to listen to the recording all the way through before it struck me.
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An amelodic piece build off cascading 9th chords (with other chords thrown in). I think of this more of background music for a movie.
Listening to it moment-to-moment isn't necessarily engaging, but my hope is that by the end you feel like you experienced something different, some sort of cryptic story.
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I was listening to a good interview of the musician Sting (on Rick Beato's YouTube channel) and he said he loved 3/4 time, so I decided to make today's composition in mostly 3/4.
It ended up with a nice melodic piece that (to me) invokes rolling country fields.
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A song where I tried to really put some thought and feeling into the chord structure. There's a simple melody that things are built off, but the chords are the focus.
For this song I did a little pre-practice and recording (roughly 20 minutes), so perhaps the overall quality or at least compositional complexity is a bit higher than average.
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My attempt at a jazzy, offbeat piece.
Partway through I realized I was being influenced by the classic "Take Five" song, so I decided to name this 変取五, which is formed from the Japanese characters for "strange" "take" and "five".
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Hakuchuumu (白昼夢) means something like a dream except we experience it while still awake, something like a reverie.
And yes, this was likely partially inspired by Debussy's Reverie (:
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A song's whose primary goal was stay quiet and peaceful (and not wake someone sleeping in a nearby room). The soft pedal (left mode pedal) was pressed down the entire time.
I was likely inspired by those songs you hear when watching videos of beautiful scenery.
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In this song I ended up developing a simple chord progression in a style that is somewhat rare for me, that I can only call "soulful" or perhaps blues-influenced.
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A complex, amelodic, epic piece that was intended as the opposite of my last piece (which tried hard to fit a certain mold).
Maybe there's a bit of Debussy influence in it?
This piece came in in just around 6 minutes, which is one of the longest pieces I've recorded in some time.
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