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Post by pianohama Mon Apr 28, 2008 2:58 pm

Yup yup! I have seen some nay-sayers about Improvisation on this forum, so today, I have decided to show them the power of being able to improvise.

I have picked out a very known piece(i think) Pachabels Canon in D, I have never played this piece before, only heard it a few times, so everything I play is on the fly, which means I played it directly after hearing it and I've never played it before. I got the chord progression and I'm gonna play my own interpretion of it in C Major Smile Hope you enjoy

I kind of messed up the video angle... And it can sound a bit mushy sometimes, and I'm not holding down the damper pedal to much, it's just that I had high volume on and the camera was too close to the speaker.. Very Happy But I guess it will do, I don't want to do a retake because then I'd have played it twice, and that's not an improvisation in my opinion Smile It's cheating! Razz


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxSSBPGEv9w


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Post by maggiekedves Mon Apr 28, 2008 5:00 pm

pianohama wrote:Yup yup! I have seen some nay-sayers about Improvisation on this forum, so today, I have decided to show them the power of being able to improvise.

I have picked out a very known piece(i think) Pachabels Canon in D, I have never played this piece before, only heard it a few times, so everything I play is on the fly. I got the chord progression and I'm gonna play my own interpretion of it in C Major Smile Video is on it's way! Hope you enjoy

Fun fun, cant wait to see cheers
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Post by maggiekedves Tue Apr 29, 2008 6:02 pm

pianohama wrote:
I kind of messed up the video angle... And it can sound a bit mushy sometimes, and I'm not holding down the damper pedal to much, it's just that I had high volume on and the camera was too close to the speaker.. Very Happy But I guess it will do, I don't want to do a retake because then I'd have played it twice, and that's not an improvisation in my opinion Smile It's cheating! Razz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxSSBPGEv9w

Yeah too bad I cant see what you were doing, but it sounded real fresh Smile
I agree something practiced is not a real improvization but everyone needs to start somewhere
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Post by Admin Andrew Tue Apr 29, 2008 6:04 pm

The old off topic material has been split to another topic.

Pianohama can post his improvisation here once, then in the future I'd like him to create a single topic for all his performances to be located in. ^_^ thanks!
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Post by Admin Andrew Tue Apr 29, 2008 6:06 pm

Now, about your video, it sounds great! very nice Smile I enjoyed listening to it!
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Post by Thomandy Tue Apr 29, 2008 6:27 pm

Yes, its very impressing that you do what you do on the piano without practice, and just after listnening to it Smile Very, very good Very Happy
You got some real tallent with the improv. Smile Keep it up!


pianohama wrote: But I guess it will do, I don't want to do a retake because then I'd have played it twice, and that's not an improvisation in my opinion Smile It's cheating! Razz

If you had played it once more, it would have sounded completly different i think... You cant really remember spoton improv corectly anyways, unless its rewhersed. So you could actually improv again, since it would sound like two different songs Smile
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Post by VictorCS Tue Apr 29, 2008 8:06 pm

I loved those pieces who sounded quite jazzy/bluesy, reminded me more of the LOTR soundtrack at those parts, but I could clearly hear it was Canon.

Great improv, reminds me that I should practise Canon Rock so I can play it 100%,
not to many who have uploaded a video of Canon Rock played on a piano on youtube.
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Post by CripKilla Tue Apr 29, 2008 8:28 pm

Nively played
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Post by pianohama Tue Apr 29, 2008 9:09 pm

Yes Smile This was to prove that with improvisation, you can accomplish anything you'd like in music Smile
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Post by g0tfish Wed Apr 30, 2008 1:19 am

wow amazing.. !! and first time played by hearing? WOW!
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Post by Casyopea Wed Apr 30, 2008 2:30 pm

Waaaaaoh!!! Pachelbel got jazzy at 1:40!!! Cool Great job!
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Post by pianohama Wed Apr 30, 2008 2:50 pm

Casyopea wrote:Waaaaaoh!!! Pachelbel got jazzy at 1:40!!! Cool Great job!

Haha yeah, I played it in the wrong scale with purpose btw Razz i wanted some dissonance
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Post by Thomandy Wed Apr 30, 2008 2:59 pm

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Casyopea wrote:Waaaaaoh!!! Pachelbel got jazzy at 1:40!!! Cool Great job!

Haha yeah, I played it in the wrong scale with purpose btw Razz i wanted some dissonance

It also very populare in C =)
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Post by pianohama Wed Apr 30, 2008 3:10 pm

thomandy wrote:
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Casyopea wrote:Waaaaaoh!!! Pachelbel got jazzy at 1:40!!! Cool Great job!

Haha yeah, I played it in the wrong scale with purpose btw Razz i wanted some dissonance

It also very populare in C =)

Haha, no you missunderstood Smile The jazzy parts of the piece, I played the wrong blues scale so it wasn't in harmony with the chords ^^ but I tried harmonizing as much as I could anyway by timing some of the keys that fits with the chord
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Post by Thomandy Wed Apr 30, 2008 3:42 pm

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Casyopea wrote:Waaaaaoh!!! Pachelbel got jazzy at 1:40!!! Cool Great job!

Haha yeah, I played it in the wrong scale with purpose btw Razz i wanted some dissonance

It also very populare in C =)

Haha, no you missunderstood Smile The jazzy parts of the piece, I played the wrong blues scale so it wasn't in harmony with the chords ^^ but I tried harmonizing as much as I could anyway by timing some of the keys that fits with the chord
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Aaaaah Very Happy Now I see Razz You got much more knowledge conserning theory than me, Im just C- scale, yeah I know that one Wink Haha, and youre going on about dissonance and harmony and all cinds of stuff Smile
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Post by pianohama Wed Apr 30, 2008 3:50 pm

hehe, well you can learn my tutorial, I will eventually explain all that stuff ;D
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Post by Phobik2000 Wed Apr 30, 2008 4:38 pm

It was nice Sleep
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Post by pianohama Wed Apr 30, 2008 4:54 pm

Phobik2000 wrote:It was nice Sleep


w00t Very Happy was it that boring? haha
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Post by Admin Andrew Wed Apr 30, 2008 6:09 pm

pianohama wrote:hehe, well you can learn my tutorial, I will eventually explain all that stuff ;D

I'm excited to watch your tutorial, partly to see you talk, and also to hear how you view what you're doing/get inside your mind Smile
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Post by pianohama Thu May 01, 2008 10:01 am

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pianohama wrote:hehe, well you can learn my tutorial, I will eventually explain all that stuff ;D

I'm excited to watch your tutorial, partly to see you talk, and also to hear how you view what you're doing/get inside your mind Smile

Hehe, you missunderstand andrew =) I won't be doing a vid tutorial, guess im to shy to talk on the camera. I got my tutorial on general piano discussion you know?
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Post by Phobik2000 Mon May 05, 2008 1:22 am

pianohama wrote:
Phobik2000 wrote:It was nice Sleep


w00t Very Happy was it that boring? haha

Hum, actually no, it was I who ws uber tired (like I am now, got a soar throat Mad )
Sorry I wasn't clear Idea
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Post by pianohama Tue May 13, 2008 10:55 pm

thomandy wrote:Yes, its very impressing that you do what you do on the piano without practice, and just after listnening to it Smile Very, very good Very Happy
You got some real tallent with the improv. Smile Keep it up!


pianohama wrote: But I guess it will do, I don't want to do a retake because then I'd have played it twice, and that's not an improvisation in my opinion Smile It's cheating! Razz

If you had played it once more, it would have sounded completly different i think... You cant really remember spoton improv corectly anyways, unless its rewhersed. So you could actually improv again, since it would sound like two different songs Smile

That's what's so magic about improvisation, you barely ever play the same thing twice Wink
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Post by Thomandy Tue May 13, 2008 11:29 pm

YUP =) And you are soon a master of improv if you continue this speed =) I read also that one needs to rewherse improvisation. In older ages they usually battled in improv, fex of a tune that was hummed or wistled from the audience or plaine scales. And it was said that mozart and these componists used alot of time practicing different improvteqnices within the different scales and systems. So when you get really really good, you probable can improvise the same thing intentionally Very Happy And, of course if you dont thnk that is real improvisation, then you got the skills to avoid it =)
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Post by VictorCS Tue May 13, 2008 11:41 pm

What's sad about improvs are that you suddenly can make this beautiful set of keys that you really would've loved to have written down,
but it was just playd on the fly, and you didnt really think of what keys you hit.
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Post by pianohama Wed May 14, 2008 12:00 am

VictorCS wrote:What's sad about improvs are that you suddenly can make this beautiful set of keys that you really would've loved to have written down,
but it was just playd on the fly, and you didnt really think of what keys you hit.

aw man dont get me started on that.. that's why i started recording what i play Razz
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