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Here is a bonus from me, since I've already submitted one this month.

I had forgot about doing this and just discovered I had it on Soundclick.

It is a multi track production of [color=darkred][b]Blue Velvet[/b][/color] played with tine piano, strings, bass, and drums.

AntonyB - what a lovely playing! (I also started to learn Einaudi's version of Le Onde yesterday, I love the melody)

Studio Joe - that was a very professional recording, I enjoyed listening to it so much, thank you for sharing!

Say Joe, I played that more than once! Where I dance we'd turn on the disco ball for that one I loved it .

Cathy

Thanks.

I'll be impatiently awaiting your version of Einaudi's Le Onde.

Martin, this was a nice and very thoughtful performance. I am not familiar with this piece - is it supposed to be played slowly? I like your tempo, it really brings up the melody. The middle part sounds really exceptional.

Cathy and Joe, thank you so much for listening to Toccatina and commenting on it, I really appreciate this. This is not the type of music I'd usually play, but I thought I'd give it a good try

Here is my second contribution, this time from my usual classical/romantic repertoire - Arietta by Grieg, recorded yesterday.

ok, I'll give it a priority

Hi Tatiana,


Welcome back, and thanks so much for your kind comments. I'm enjoying listening to your new pieces too! You're absolutely right about Two Guitars.. It's a lively piece and should be played that way all the way through, not just at the end. I redid it and tried to put more pep into the whole thing this time. I couldn't play it too much faster, though, as my fingers would get all tangled up.

TWO GUITARS (#2)

BTW, I do have a score I could send you if interested, but this is mostly my own arrangement.

thanks for your kind comments, the score has a direction of 'thoughtful' which leaves a lot of room for interpretation!

Studio Joe - Very well played and professionally produced - I was kind of hoping that you would start singing at some point since your picture shows you with a microphone. Oh well, maybe next time.

Thanks Bill, I'll sing for you on the next one. Already got one in the works.

Hi All,

I’ve enjoyed the November piano bar so far! All the submissions were excellent.

And, welcome back, Tatiana! I enjoyed listening to your latest submissions. I’m actually not a “two-timer” in regards to being in love with your lovely hands. Elssa has lovely hands too. Fact is, both of you have lovely hands and your music is just as lovely!!

I see your lovely hands and I hear your lovely music…. Sounds like a beautiful love song in the making!!

Best regards,

Rick

Elssa,

Your second take is outstanding! I can picture gypsies dancing while you are playing...

Yes, I would love to get your arrangement of the Two Guitars (not that I will be able to master it any time soon, but I will make an effort! ) Thank you so much for your kind offer.

Tatiana

Hey look, two entries in one month!

Of course, this is a video of an early recital piece I did here on the ABF. I had a video of this on youtube but with extremely low quality audio so I took the time today to make a new video.

It was also a chance to play a bit more with pianoteq 3.5 as I'm using the demo and this is one of the few pieces that I know that does not hit any of the 6 disabled notes.

Thanks for listening/watching...



Now, I know it might be a bit late for those who just did the recital but another reason I made this video was that I was going to work on a tutorial of sorts for working with audio/video. How I use a few tools to line up the audio from different sources. I can give instructions for linux based systems fairly easily but I'll have to do some work in windows to find a program and get instructions for that. I know all the commands from my shell prompt but adding a gui in windows will make things much harder.

Sounded awfully good, Anthony, and superbly played as well; now, I guess You'll have to buy the full version or find more songs that don't use the 6 notes in question.

I just started work on a new one that avoids the disabled notes. I went through all the sheet music I have and got down to about 12 pieces out of over 70 or so that avoid the disabled notes (three of the sharps/flats in the bass section are the problem.)

Out of those 12 I can already play two but they aren't really difficult pieces. A few of the 10 left I might have a chance at playing. Monica's latest recital piece is one of the 10 left but somehow I don't see that one in my near future.

Beautiful ... love it!

Thank you

Tatiana,

No problem. I sent it along to you.. Hope it went through O.K. Thanks again for your comments and helpful suggestion!

Elssa,

Thank you for score - it went through. Now I have it!!!

Btw, the original Russian name for this piece is 'Tsyganochka' (='Gypsy Girl')