We are putting this on the list of piano music that is too damn hard right now, but stuff I will eventually be able to play. Watch his hands after the first repeated section – what is going on is that he is alternating quickly between two sets of notes
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Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Vienna Symphony Orchestra Project
Oh 1986, what a year you were. It brought us the VSOP and the melding of classical and pop music. Yes friends, lets go back and kick it down with some Rock Me Amadeus. Listening to the tune again made me laugh at a couple of spots, the sampling is…
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Frightday Musical Interlude – The Monster Mash
Yet another DWR interlude that reveals how old yours truly actually is. 🙂 I have this on vinyl direct from K-tel records and distinctly remembering twisting-out to this groovy tune as a child. Happy Pre-Halloween all. Filed under: Music Tagged: Dating the Author, The DWR Friday Musical Interlude, The Monster
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Another Bonus Musical Interlude with Vi Hart
Vi Hart is truly amazing. Awe inspiring yet accessible, sublime yet exciting, her videos are strange, wonderful, fun, educational, and so many other great things combined. Now it’s time to expand your mind with a delightful explanation and demonstration of Shepard Tones Filed under: Music Tagged: Illusions, Math, Music,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Another Bonus Musical Interlude with Vi Hart
Vi Hart is truly amazing. Awe inspiring yet accessible, sublime yet exciting, her videos are strange, wonderful, fun, educational, and so many other great things combined. Now it’s time to expand your mind with a delightful explanation and demonstration of Shepard Tones Filed under: Music Tagged: Illusions, Math, Music,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Music for Housecleaning – Disturbed.
When you need to throw-down against those villainous dust-bunnies, sometimes you need the large caliber tunage. Disturbed, along with System of Down and of course Rage against the Machine fit this requirement quiet nicely. Filed under: Music Tagged: Industrial Metal, The DWR Friday Musical Interlude, The War on Dust
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Music for Housecleaning – Disturbed.
When you need to throw-down against those villainous dust-bunnies, sometimes you need the large caliber tunage. Disturbed, along with System of Down and of course Rage against the Machine fit this requirement quiet nicely. Filed under: Music Tagged: Industrial Metal, The DWR Friday Musical Interlude, The War on Dust
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Friday Musical Interlude: Dramatic Soprano Style!
The singing year has started for me as well as the Arbourist. My teacher and I have set two goals for this year: That I will develop good practicing habits That I will finally let my big voice out at its full size In furtherance of these goals, she’s assigned
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Blaze of Glory – Bon Jovi
I really like this song. Here’s the problem though, try singing it in the same key that JBJ does. Here is the lead sheet and let’s observe the melodic patterns that are going on in this song. Those black dots keep going up higher on the staff. Damn you JBJ
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Bonus Musical Interlude with ViHart
I saw this today and I had to put it up. Enjoy some history, some math, some copywrite commentary, and some wonderful music, all delightfully wrapped together by the fantastic ViHart. Enjoy! Filed under: Music Tagged: Happy Birthday, Math, Music, The DWR Friday Musical Interlude, Vi Hart
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Classical Interlude – Rachmaninoff’s Prelude in C# Minor Op. 3, No. 2
I love this piece and in my deepest and darkest piano dreams I’d be able to play it. 🙂 The prelude is organized into three main parts and a coda: The piece opens with a three note motif at fortissimo which introduces the grim C-sharp minor tonality that dominates the
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Bach, Minuet in G, Anna Magdalena Notebook (Petzold)
I can play the first part. 🙂 If I can find the second part, I’ll work on that too. 🙂 The Minuet in G major is a keyboard piece included in the 1725 Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach. Until 1970 it was attributed to Johann Sebastian Bach (BWV Anh 114),
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Sibelius Symphony No.2
The symphony is in four movements, with the third movement and the finale played attacca: Allegretto – Poco allegro – Tranquillo, ma poco a poco ravvivando il tempo all’allegro – Poco largamente – Tempo I – Poco allegro Tempo andante, ma rubato – Poco allegro – Molto largamente – Andante
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Musical Interlude – Paul Simon – The Obvious Child
Catchy Melody – Check. Fantastic Rhythm – Check. Meaningful Lyrics – Check. Paul Simon and company lay down another great track for you and me to listen too. Mission Accomplished. 🙂 And of course some history: Following the success of 1986’s Graceland, on which he worked principally with South African
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Beethoven’s 7th 2nd Movement.
Leave it to Beethoven to capture the keen spirit of melancholic grief. ” The famous A-minor Allegretto is framed by the same unstable chord to open and close the movement. The form is ABABA with the opening section using a theme that is once again more distinctive for its rhythmic
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude: Iceland Edition
As you read this right now, our choir is on tour in Iceland. One of the songs we are singing is Heyr himna smiður, an Icelandic hymn, with the text of an 800-year-old poem, that was set to music in the 20th century. The harmonies are achingly, spine-tinglingly beautiful. This performance of Heyr himna
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Romantic Interlude: Verdi’s Requiem
Speaking of music most likely to get you killed while driving… Here’s what I must never listen to in the car. Not while driving because it could get me killed, and not as a passenger because it could get me committed. I air-conduct. I air-bass-drum. And I sing along. The
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Elgar, March No.1 in D Major
Instrumentation The instrumentation is: two piccolos (2nd ad lib.), two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets in A, bass clarinet in A, two bassoons, contrabassoon, four horns in F, two trumpets in F, two cornets in A, three trombones, tuba, three timpani, percussion (bass drum, cymbals, triangle, side drum, jingles, and
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude And Special Disservice Friday Mass – Metallica
Sometimes, after a long, frustrating week, a soothing sonata to ease the built up tension just won’t do the trick. Sometimes a sublime symphony is wasted on a battered soul that just doesn’t have the fortitude to fully appreciate it. Sometimes you need something that will defibrillate your arrested senses, something
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Piano/Vocal Milestones and May Day!
You know what is hard? Playing a song from memory. What’s harder? Singing along with your playing. This is the first song that I can do both on. Full disclosure, the Vocal part still needs work as my fingers want to sing along with the melody instead of accompanying me
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