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#5 Lifetimes
Song and a Chat
English - April 20, 2020 05:55 - 26 minutes - 18.3 MBMusic Commentary Music Music Interviews Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Episode number 5! This week I'm presenting an instrumental solo piano song, Lifetimes, written in 1987.
There's 2 versions here : The original demo and also the track released on my first piano album Eridanus / River Music.
On the demo, this is my first effort at arranging strings - an orchestral type of arrangement using my keyboard, which I added after recording the initial piano on my upright acoustic piano.
Lifetimes started out as chords and melodies scrawled onto different bits of paper - very basic notation written at the various times I composed each part.
One winter's evening after playing a gig with a covers band, I sat down at my old upright piano back home around midnight and brought all the sections together. I also composed joining phrases, new movements, etc. Fortunately everyone was out for the night and I could play the piano without disturbing anyone.
Some day I'll hire an orchestra and record it again. Nonetheless, for now, here's how it sounds.
As a creative person, it pays to enjoy your art in the form it is in presently, while keeping it in mind to perhaps rework in the future.
Have a listen and I'll talk you through how it all came together, then I segue into the songwriting angle. Enjoy.
Episode number 5! This week I’m presenting an instrumental solo piano song, Lifetimes, written in 1987.
There’s 2 versions here : The original demo and also the track released on my first piano album Eridanus / River Music.
On the demo, this is my first effort at arranging strings – an orchestral type of arrangement using my keyboard, which I added after recording the initial piano on my upright acoustic piano.
Lifetimes started out as chords and melodies scrawled onto different bits of paper – very basic notation written at the various times I composed each part.
One winter’s evening after playing a gig with a covers band, I sat down at my old upright piano back home around midnight and brought all the sections together. I also composed joining phrases, new movements, etc. Fortunately everyone was out for the night and I could play the piano without disturbing anyone.
Some day I’ll hire an orchestra and record it again. Nonetheless, for now, here’s how it sounds.
As a creative person, it pays to enjoy your art in the form it is in presently, while keeping it in mind to perhaps rework in the future.
Have a listen and I’ll talk you through how it all came together, then I segue into the songwriting angle. Enjoy.