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Thanks, Antonio! Yes, the zooming and panning is all done in post. I’d love to someday acquire a motorized slider and/or motorized jib, but at about $5,000 a pop it’s not exactly a priority for my channels haha. I do miss the changes in perspective you get when an actual lens moves through space, but I’ll settle for a similar outcome in post… for now at least :-) About the piano… the “new” hammers are now over a year old and have a fair amount of play-in. I’m also playing more forte and fortissimo throughout this piece than I have in the recent past. It’s been long enough that I could, potentially, ask my technician to voice down the hammers, but if I’m honest, they are both too bright and also not bright enough for my taste. Under soft playing, I like the current tone quite a bit. I wish it had just a bit more “zing,” but it’s pretty good. Under louder playing, the tone just kind of breaks down a bit… and I’m also holding back even here in this recording. The louder tone is too bright in that it loses some depth and warmth, but also not bright enough in that there truly aren’t the brighter overtones that I’d really like to hear. Almost like… the first overtone above the fundamental is over-emphasized, but the rest of the overtones above that don’t have enough emphasis. I didn’t love forte on the new hammers during the first few months when they were really fresh, because, there wasn’t any change in overtones from piano to forte… it was just one color that got louder. Now there’s a change, but it’s a little one dimensional. Because of all of that, I’m hesitant to ask my tech to soften them at all because I don’t want to go back to the single color tone. Maybe he’ll have some idea of something else to do, so I’ll ask when he’s back around again. And about score reading… composed and well-practiced and fully memorized are 3 very different things. So yes, I composed this piece; because of that I have a deeper understanding of my own use of harmony, compositional tools, melodic shape, and intention than someone else would. I also tend to compose in ideas and textures that come *more* naturally to my hands, so in turn I usually don’t need to practice my own stuff as much as other music. But only good and extended practice will ever lead to memorization. You could say that I, as the composer, have2 of the 4 pillars of memory well built from the inception of the composition… analytical memory and aural memory. But without extended practice, there is no building of muscle memory or visual memory. Because I typically only have a handful of hours to devote to practicing any of my pieces before I need to record them, it’s never anywhere near close to the amount of time truly needed to memorize every single note and all of the subtle differences from one phrase to another… for example… does the left hand go to the 5th or the octave, or step… and which one am I in the middle of? And is the right hand in thirds here or single notes… when does the 3rd get added to the octave? Etc. Memorizing all of those details simply takes time, and much more time than just a few hours of learning it and running it in preparation to record. So when you see a video of mine where I’m not using the score, you can assume I’ve had *at least* 20 or 30 hours of practice on that particular (usually 5-minute long) piece. If the score is in front of me, it’s probably closer to 5 or fewer hours of practice. Sometimes the difficulty of my piece or arrangement will necessitate memorization because the hardest phrases *need* so much time to get accurate. But when it’s not THAT hard, I usually can’t afford to spend my time doing all of that extra practice when… who knows when I’ll be needing to perform the piece again for the 2nd time. It could be in 6 months or it could literally be never. That’s my personal perspective on performing my own compositions… I’d bet that other composers would have similar reasoning. :-)

@@CharlesSzczepanek I can't help wondering how many hours it'd take Eleanor to memorize the piece dedicated to her. Then again, what is time to a dog?

They are truly a treat! Thanks for listening!

Perfect! Thanks, John!

Yes that would be great!

Love it, thanks for listening!

No joke! This will be the third piece I’ve written to characterize a pet of mine. You could say, instead of doing a painting of them, I’ve written music :-)

Love it, and great! Thanks Dave!

Happy-go-lucky is a great characterization! This time, not a middle “sleep” sequence, but… she does this thing where she will sit up, next to me on the couch, and put one paw on my arm and gaze, unblinking, at me. If I ignore her, the paw goes to my shoulder… then it’s two paws… and then the head comes down to rest on my shoulder… and she still won’t have blinked lol. So that middle bit is a musical representation of those moments where she goes from fun and playful to very calm, loving, and (usually) politely asking for pets lol.

@@CharlesSzczepanek lol that’s so cute. And polite. My dog just whacks me if the staring doesn’t work 😂 Also - how are you turning pages digitally? Edit: never mind I just saw your link in the description haha.

The intro does sound similar to the intro of Tennessee from the Pearl Harbor soundtrack.

@@rjp3579 THAT'S IT! THAT'S IT thank you rjp!!!!!!!

Chris, thanks so much for coming back and for enjoying this!! You might be interested... I arranged and recorded an entire "Star Trek Suite" ... I never did any videos for them, but you can find the album version here on YT: ua-cam.com/video/fc94d12s0jw/v-deo.html If the link doesn't take you to the first track of the Suite in this playlist, just scroll down to track 13. It starts with this one ;-)

Thanks so much for listening to more of my music! David is a wonderful singer, that special sounds like a magical experience!

Thank you!

Thanks for checking out this original too :-)

Thanks so much, Dave!

Thank you, Andre!

Yeah, I couldn’t help it, but I watched it like 10 more times! Absolutely amazing!

Thank you!

Thanks for listening! You can get the sheet music here www.musicnotes.com/sheetmusic/mtd.asp?ppn=MN0208286 :-)

Thanks, bud!

Awesome, thanks so much and enjoy playing it!

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Thanks, Dan!

Thank you, John!

Thank you!

Thank you, Luis!

Absolutely!

Thank you, and thanks for listening!

My pleasure, thanks for listening!

You know it!

100% yes! Writing original material around the tunes is usually my favorite part of arranging... and a lot of the time the 8 or 16 bars of my own end up being my favorite measures to play as well.

Thanks so much!