Heeeeeeeey Robert, the waterfall is fresh, sparkling and beautiful and did I hear you play the highest note on the keyboard there too?? Those trickles of notes wonderfully executed 🎹🎵🎹🎵🎹🎵🎹🎵🎹🎵🎹🙂🙂🙂🤗🤗
i love your base and voicing ❤ you can always improve your technique with more practise, but this already is amazing and really musical:) i hope to hear more of your playing
Suddenly everything went black n white and I am walking about at doublespeed.... My waistband is migrating up towards my nips and I am talking very fast - send help !!!!
Cheers! Essentially there's a single MIDI piano performance and certain notes/phrases have been extracted into 8 different track lanes routed into 8 virtual speakers.
Heeeeeeeey Robert, a delicate dreamy composition, impressionistic and atmospheric, with those magic runs of notes that sparkle and dazzle!! 🎹🎵🎹🎵🎹🎵🎹🎵🎹🎵🎹🎵🎹🙂🙂🙂🤗🤗
Amazing!! I’ve been at this piece for two years now and I watch you play this piece to try and understand how to play it. You’re amazing, Trebor Newo. (Haha).
I'm an American and I don't speak a word of Welsh. However, I discovered Calon Lan maybe 5 years ago and it has quickly become a favorite of mine. I'm also 65 years old and am taking voice / singing lessons for the first time. My instructor wanted me to try to sing something in Italian, but I don't speak Italian either and my suggestion was to work on learning to sing Calon Lan in Welsh. It has been a bit of a project, listening to different artists on RU-vid and trying to get the pronunciation right, but I feel I'm getting there. There are quite a few different interpretations and I find that I favor a slower paced tempo. When I sing it at a tempo of around 60 beats per minute, it becomes very powerful, almost like a "musical bulldozer". My sheet music calls for 72 BPM, but to me that's like trying to rush through it. Slower also helps my pronunciation a little! I also discovered from a DNA test about 2 years ago that my DNA is 3% Welsh, for whatever that's worth! It's a shame that this isn't included in American hymnals.
Interesting tune! Not a rag certainly but a very nice foxtrot! I like how it's got a tinge of humor to it while still remaining laid back and almost classical!
@@arobertowen I highly recommend checking out Tsfasman's "Into A Distant Journey" and Slonov's "Starlight", they are the pinnacle of Russian jazz music and by far some of the most beautifully written tunes I've heard :D
Hey! My school performed your song at our spring concert (With no admission fee) last Thursday! They did a piano and saxophone arrangement and it was so beautiful I just had to see the original. Safe to say, I wasn’t disappointed in the least. Keep going man! You have the skill to make it, don’t ever forget that.
Thanks so much for your comment, it's great to hear that they've arranged it into something new! Is there an audio recording of it? I would really like to hear it!
I suppose you could email it over (the email address is in my channel description), but make sure to get their permission and the schools permission beforehand - if any party does not want to share it, do not send it.
Hey I was wondering when you use the sustain pedal in maple leaf rag? I never learned how to read notes and learned how to play maple leaf rag from videos.
Whenever! I change it up all the time depending on the piano and location, I sometimes don't even use the pedal. The best place is in the first section with the G# minor arpeggio - this is commonly played with pedal - you can hold it through the 2 bars. You could apply the pedal to every left hand octave to give those notes more emphasis (this works better at a slower tempo - don't play as fast as I did in this video, I look back at it and cringe). If you repeat the sections, you could play it first without and then with (just on the octave notes) for a bit of contrast. Record youself and see how it sounds!
I haven't played it since! After this performance I realised spending so long on one piece wasn't worth the time. I mostly play ragtime pieces and piano parts in a band (my sight reading and aural skills have improved tenfold!). Are you a pianist?
Wonderful! I listened to your Performance with great interests as I am actually trying to learn this piece myself. How long did it take you to learn it?
Your 'short' of this came up on my recommended lists... had to look for the full version. Absolute class Robert. Love the time sig and cracking chords. Really good work.
@@arobertowen btw dude. Ive been trying to figure out what Piano this youtuber called “willskeyboardsink” uses. I can see the Piano’s brand name, but idk EXACTLY what piano he is using. Could you help me?
@@epicgam3rxd564 Looks like a great pianist! I think the piano is a Shigeru Kawai (either the sk-2 or sk-3 given the size of the room). If you are in the market for a piano, consider traveling to your nearest piano dealer to get a feel for the keys. In general, Yamaha and Kawai are the most accessible due to their lighter key action (Yamaha pianos tend to feel more 'organic' and Kawai pianos tend to feel more 'manufactured'). Brands like Steinway make amazing pianos but their key action can often feel heavy. The other consideration you may want to make is between an upright and grand piano. Depending on your situation, a grand piano could be too loud and cause issues with neighbours, whereas most uprights have a practise pedal which reduces the loudness (this has been an absolute life saver for me). I wish you all the best in your piano search.
@@arobertowen Thank you very much for your reply!!! I asked for a small thing, and you did not only answer my question, but also game me wonderful adivce. Mean a lot for me!! Thanks.
Wonderful!! You are amazing.Thank you so much for playing this. My Great uncle who was born in 1894 used to play the piano in theaters for the silent movies, eventually he became a music teacher . He was a great man, who served in world War 1, and we used to go visit him in Utah, we lived in Southern California. He would always play for us when visiting, he had an old upright grand that he said he bought in 1924. Last time we visited he was 98 years old and played this very piece almost as good as this fellow! He'd always say afterwards, sorry, I used to play it much better! And of course he played everything by memory! He still had a vast collection of music he could play by memory. He was still sharp as a tack. He passed away in June of 1994, 4 months after his 100th birthday. He told his family he was tired and going to take a nap. He never woke up. Lucky guy. We asked the executor of his estate if we could have his piano, and we were given it. RIP UNCLE CON.
Heeeeeeey my friend, that opening bass is mesmerising and then, as the guitar joins in, we are hooked!!! You have a real gift of developing layers of a song/piece, as a very talented multi instrumentalist, and take us on a great musical journey!!!! Hope you have a great week 🎹🎵🎹🎵🎹🎵🙂🎹🙂🙂🙂🙂🤗🤗
