Note 6: Pipe Standings

Well well well...

Long have I not posted in this chronicle..

At least I have today to take a little break and stay a little late to refresh this blog, not as if I want to find excuse not to do it as usual.

Well, so far my compositions are quite stagnant.
Compositions are hard to do. Even harder than the General Paper essays that you have to churn out during exams. Trust me. Even during the actual examinations, I have difficulties coming up with inspiration.

Song generation are quite easy, I hum it..
Being along have its advantages, I hum to myself. A lot of times, I made catchy songs, but the irony is that after 2 hours. My memory is like a selective steel trap.
I forgot about the melody I was supposed to remember..

So...
Now I was relegated to practising piano to not turn my skills rusty. Planning on what to do after 'A' Levels is to regain my lost direction of music.

Junior College has the power to suck out the souls of people literally, with all the litany of characters you encounter, its a small wonder that you still have your sanity.

Okay..
I gotta go now.
Ciao.

Note 5: Practise Makes Perfect?

Sigh...
Lucky that I haven't mellow quite as much as I thought...
So far, during the holidays...
I have practice only a grand total of... 1 times...

Thats a lot?????

Sigh...

That is it...

Signing off

Note 4: Composition

Here are the pieces that I have been trying to compose. And frankly..
All have not been completed.

These are the two of the planned pieces that I am going to integrate into my Symphonic Poem 'Friendship'.

1st Movement: The Walk of the Endless Path
Completion Rate: 15%
Status: Searching for Inspiration
Comments: Sounds awfully like Pirates of the Caribbean...

2nd Movement: Waltz of the Rain
Completion Rate: 10%
Status: Tinkering on the piano.
Comments: Still wondering how to create a flowing music with left hand not banging and not sounding chordal, motif is defined already. Trying to do some repetition and the canon style integration.

3rd- 5th Movement: .....
Completion Rate: 0%
Comments: Aieeee!!!! Still not enough inspiration!!!

Due to the slow rate I am completing the pieces, I have a hard time to even playing the piano.
So..
I expect the pieces That I have listed to be done by the end of next year.

Now, let me see the etudes that Tay Yi said..
Should be able to play them..

Signing off

Note 3: Suspension

Yesterday was the final day of my piano lesson.
Hopefully until the day when my 'A' Levels ended.

However my pieces plan will still go on, albeit in an easier pace than ever before...

So now...
What I am learning now?

Well. To perfect my Eternal Harvest and start on One Winged Angel piano version and Rufus' Welcoming Ceremony.

Yes.
Now gaming music is not confined to bleeps and bloops.
They are the modern works of art.
Unlike classical music where there is more technical and modern where it is Even more technical and more feeling infused.

A hard genre indeed.
It is akin to the modified Romantic period music.


Okie..

What I wish for..
My own house and a Steinway and Sons Grand Piano.

Signing off

Note 3: Dreams

Having dreams are good, especially impossible dreams.

But no my friend, dreams are not unachievable.
I am determined to get to my goals.

So far.
Completed The Eternal Harvest, much to my chagrin of my parents.
Who viewed my piano pieces like lesser melodies.
They wanted it to sound peaceful...

Ok.
Maybe I can fulfil their wishes.
Put in more time to practise piano.

Ok.
Gotta go.
Signing off

Note 2: Hours

Increasingly hard to find time to practice on the piano nowadays.
I can't believe how am I going to survive...(Hold on... Not that dramatic)

My mom pleaded with me NOT to listen to the iPod when I study.
After about 45 minutes I think I have cold turkey syndrome, you know the ones that drug offenders have?
Yes.
I was so cranky and upset. I also don't know where did that came from.
It also happens during the General Paper class today.

The silence is killing me!
Yet I abhor random noises.
Something must be wrong with me....

Anyways.
Just now, got scolded by my father for playing piano late in the night.
Yet he later turned against his word by asking me to play louder as it is his favorite song!
What a hypocrite!

Returning to the basics seems good for me.
Bach Two-part Invention seems like a good choice for me.

The two-part invention is actually a single hand each plays a different melody. Yet it blends together.
Although in actuality is not like that.....

If anyone of you want to know, I will gladly explain it to you.
Richard Claydermann!
You the man!! He is not even the top tiered artiste. Yet he still manage to win the hearts of other audience.

I hope I can captivate audiences unlike any others.

Ok.
Signing off

Note 1: Feelings

Basically, I have decided like other blogs, to number each and every post starting from now.

I have chosen "note" because it represents the basic thing on a piano score need to be played.

And also it serves the other meaning of telling me to take notice of my past and learn from it.

Feelings,
Ah.
It was lost for me.
I could not find it yet, not now...

I am too committed to other things.
Like want to find a suitable blogskin for this ugly blog.
Need to beautify it more right?

Feelings after the exams were slowly trickling back to me, I have realized no matter how hard you play or how fast you play.
If you can enjoy the song, and can able to show it to all.
You already won the audience over.

Now this generation is coming to a close.
Classical Music is taking the back seat now.
New forms of music are coming into play.

This is a fresh start and I am going to make my dreams come true in one way or another.

Signing off.

The Eternal Harvest

Today,

It is just the normal day for me.

But I have just completed the Golden Saucer.

When I said completed, I do not mean mastering it.

To me mastering a piece is like perfecting an art, need constant care, throwing away "sketches".

I still have to perfect my 'unique feeling' to each individual pieces, give it the zing that not even a recording can capture.

Meanwhile,
I am starting on the Eternal Harvest,
with a plethora of running and fast notes, it proves a challenge to me to step up to higher levels of playing.

But bit by bit.
Getting closer to the dream that I want to be.
A video-game music composer.

Signing off

Returning Winds

My piano style is evident.

Talent although is inbred in everybody is different in levels.
I cannot say that my talent level is extremely high, nor can I say it is low.
But I know..
I have lack of time...

I need to practise 9 pieces for the annual presentation every end of the year.

I admit, but I have learnt how to play pieces in the shortest time possible without sacrificing my performance...

Hmm, what else to learn in piano!!! I want to learn more things...
Maybe it is a signal for me to go overseas.
I could not learn anything more here...

Competing with other performers, although is very prestige, it is of no importance to me.
This trivial competition will result in although positive challenge and the drive to be better.
There are some things left better unsaid.

Now, the songs I am learning are all game music.
I think people feel that is very unprofessional and who does game music anyways.
But game music is gaining importance.

I feel that game music is full of emotions and feelings.
I can 'see' the heart and soul poured inside.

Although I have never played certain games before.
The music tells the story.

That is why I refuse to play classical music or romantic period music for that matter.
Cause I see no point blurring your fingers to cause pain in your ears.

Unless you can enlighten me on how classical music is nice like most modern compositions do.

keep up with the times yo!

Pieces completed
1. Besaid Island

Pieces doing now
1. The Eternal Harvest
2. Golden Saucer
3. Fighting (Yes! I have progressed after long hiatu of other songs)
4. Hungarian Rhapsody (My ex-student requested it so i guess I shouldn't dash his dreams)

Pieces to be played;
1. You are not alone
2. Ami
3. The Great War

Ok..
That is about it...
I gotta go!

Time

Finding time to play the piano is such a hard time...

I better seriously consider to play in school if I really want to improve drastically...

I know my piano teacher is gonna kill me if I kept delaying the exam pieces because I really do not feel it is up to my standard...
Meaning that I could not play as well as before without the time commitment I have put in before...

Homework has taken its foothold here....

At least I can find time to do piano theory homework...

Speaking of piano theory homeworks...
I have just gotten my own piano exam results...

I got a 72. Meaning a low pass in my standards and my teacher's standard...

JC really has killed my piano skills...

OK..
I gotta go..
Signing off