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foxyw - What a cheerfully-played piece! Brought a smile to my face as I take a lunch break - perfect

Cathy

Morodiene - that was great. I liked the changing moods throughout the piece.

Larry B - I thought you captured the different flavors of the recording sections perfectly.

Inlanding - I liked this very much - very calming.

Cathy

Peyton - you set a really nice family scene with your fine song-story of the holiday season - excellent accompaniment as usual! Liked this a lot.

JF

Greetings!

I was inspired to conjure three tunes last night for this December Piano Bar, improvising around a chord structure, attempting to not lose my place. One, a familiar standard and the others...some broken versions of blues.

I've developed such a bad habit over time of not counting to change at the right time. These examples are my first public attempt at illustrating what I want to fix.

Misty Noodling

Major Blooze

Minor Blooze

Thanks - have a great day!

Glen

"sister linda" http://www.box.net/shared/ezuag1fra9

I was sitting at the piano one morning as usual, noodling around. For some strange reason I started thinking about this portrait photograph of my dad dressed up in his WW2 army uniform. As I thought about the sadness in his eyes, I remembered that around that time (1942) my parents' first baby was stillborn. It's not something that was ever talked about very much in my family, but as I started thinking about my sister, who they named Linda, I wrote this song for her.

Larry - that is a fantastic piece! What a great brother you are!

Very thoughtful, very well played.

You are a fine player

Glen

PianoU1 - good effort on the delightful Hummel piece.

JF

PianoU1~~

Very excellent! Very much enjoyed watching your hands move as you played. Thanks for sharing

Glen

My extemporaneous version of Autumn Leaves as another addition to this, the 2009 December Piano Bar.

Autumn Leaves

Taking the inspiration from the Christmas songs thread, I wrote this song. In this one, I envisioned people gathering on the holidays, catching up on each others' news, the kids running around having fun. So I called it:

Reunion

TB

ladypayne - what a nice duet on Edelweiss. I remember sitting down with a friend and just playing thru a duet book - great fun.

PianoU1 - what a fun video - your fingers look like spiders on that piece from that angle Cute piece.

Larry Larson - very nice. I like having the melody in the bass.

Cathy

Bill, loved your Georgia. Sounds like you wrote it.

foxyw- Very sweet. I love it. Welcome to the bar... give us more!

Inlanding- Glen... that was really beautiful. Great improvising. Really nice recording quality too. What piano are you on? It has a beautiful tone.

True Beginner, Pretty Piece, I enjoyed listening to it very much
Larry Larson, good job, it was very nice
Sam, Great job:) I liked the recorder in it also. me and my sister try that sometimes:)
Riddler, Nice Blues song:P
Bill, I like that piece as well, wish I could sing like that:)
Foxyw, Great job, I love Tchaikovsky, we played a lot of his pieces when I was in band during highschool
Morodiene, Awesome:) great piece
Inlanding-very pretty also:)
Ladypayne. well.. what can I say.. we did pretty good;)
Peyton- another singer! nice song:)
I'll catch up with the rest tonight:)
Here is My piece,another song from Lord of the Dance
I was experimenting with changing the sounds on the keyboard. here it is;P
http://www.box.net/shared/r5i7mninek

Very medieval, Augustina. Lovely harmonies.

OK, this is the way I wanted my recital piece to turn out. Pretty close to a month after the recital.

Chopin Prelude No 4

Rich

Rich, that was super. Really well phrased and felt.

Only a month after the recital. Mine can be as long as 2 years and still not really be up to par

Cathy

Hi All,

Here is my contribution to the December piano-bar. I recorded this today. I've always liked the song. I've been flirting around with reading music and this piece is a lot like it is written, but I did add lib a bit. (It's hard to break the "by-ear" habit )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HreQIuq8xaE

Rick

Rick - that was a little different from your usual fare, but I liked it very much.

Cathy

Bill, very professional job (as usual) on Georgia. Fun to play with different voices, isn't it?

Foxyw, very well done. Lots of zest and exuberance in your playing, I'd say.

Morodiene, that really grabbed me - quite beautiful, passionate, professional. WRT the recording, I had to turn the volume up a bit, but it sounded fine. Great job.

Glen, boy those deep bass notes sound good, don't they. A very enjoyable, nostalgic improv; the kind of music that brings back memories, for me.

Ladypayne and Augustina, nice work on your Edelweiss duet. Keep 'em coming!

Ed

Enjoyed it Rick. You have a good voice and you use it very well.