should work now. The imbedding doesn't show on my screen but i'm using a mac and i think my browser is just having an ego trip. But the link should work. And that is just a loose sweater because it was in calgary and it was ing cold, I was on the rave pills at this time so trust me , that is camera pudge. Maybe that is why i look confused. I would prefer to think it was the not playing in years but its funny when i'm looking at the lead sheet like a dear in headlights. The jazz stuff is in the middle - end.
Richard Butler
Looney, really decent playing there, something I'd love to be able to do, but I have to say in a bar / hotel I hate that sort of tunage and wish someone would do something different. I realise your'e giving a good starting template here, but I'd urge anyone considering this job to try and be different from the mutitude that play this style in hotel lounges. I don't know anyone who likes it because it's been omnipresent and unchanging for decades.
Nearly as dire a style as in those Bloomberg / Fox TV for example showing which hotels support them, or during the weather of share price summary.
As I say, fantastic skill on your part, it's just this hotel style I decry.
Looney4Clooney
i think it is more the purpose of the music. You are there as background. You should not really be noticed but noticed if not there. Jazz is good for this , especially the more bill evans type stuff because it is less tonal, you don't have those resolutions that are poignant and sort of demand your attention. IT in't about the music. They want ambience. So you are a furniture in a way.
Granted what i would play would change if it was later in he night and the focus could be more on entertainment. But generally, you don't want to stand out. You are basically elevator music. That second example is something i wouldn't do in a hotel setting as it is too familiar.
kadomony
you might want to take a look at Chilly Gonzales' style.
improvisational, with a coherent theme. modern, sometimes poppy melodies.
i was once able to play all 12 Chopin etudes rather well op 10 and 25. That Paganini Caprice originally for violin, i learned the first 4. They are ridiculously hard. And you don't get laid at that age.
that is the one thing i hated about classical performances. Honestly, look at that ing bitch sitting down. That is why classical music is dying. IF i was a concert pianist, i would tell her to get the out. only hot bitches in this house. Hey where the did everyone go.
chris marsh
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Originally posted by Looney4Clooney
didn't know they had a system like that for jazz. Is that with the royal conservatory.
Its a ABRSM grading, only goes up to 5 presently. http://www.abrsm.org/en/exams/jazz/
I decided to do the jazz grading instead of classical as i really like jazz and on the whole much prefer it so seemed like a sensible choice
Its structured in a similar way, ie scales/pieces/sight reading. One difference is you make up your own solos for pieces right from grade 1
Started 2 years ago, wish i'd started 20 years ago but hey that's life :)
Certainly got chops Richie. Well payed, but I had not idea you play so american. I kind of feel the same way as RB does about the music choice though;
that particular brand of american lounge music is just so horrendous. It's like I've just walked in to a 3 star hotel in 1994. Badly tailored suits worn by middle aged guys chatting up woman with big hair, while they sip knock-off champagne.
Cannot stand it. Good playing skills none the less though.
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Originally posted by Richard Butler
Looney, really decent playing there, something I'd love to be able to do, but I have to say in a bar / hotel I hate that sort of tunage and wish someone would do something different. I realise your'e giving a good starting template here, but I'd urge anyone considering this job to try and be different from the mutitude that play this style in hotel lounges. I don't know anyone who likes it because it's been omnipresent and unchanging for decades.
Nearly as dire a style as in those Bloomberg / Fox TV for example showing which hotels support them, or during the weather of share price summary.
As I say, fantastic skill on your part, it's just this hotel style I decry.
Juan Paulino
How does one go from that lovely piano sound into straight up hardstyle, no offense.
Looney4Clooney
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Originally posted by DJ RANN
Certainly got chops Richie. Well payed, but I had not idea you play so american. I kind of feel the same way as RB does about the music choice though;
that particular brand of american lounge music is just so horrendous. It's like I've just walked in to a 3 star hotel in 1994. Badly tailored suits worn by middle aged guys chatting up woman with big hair, while they sip knock-off champagne.
Cannot stand it. Good playing skills none the less though.
I play everything. Obviously classical is my expertise. I can improvise classical better than jazz. Like i could improvise a sonata using the expected motives , submotives, exposition, development and recapitulation.
jazz is probably my weakest side. In a way i don't really like most of it that much. Like that one that sounds like elevator music. That is just playing a style. Not really feeling it. The comp on the other classic jazz tune is alright.
and my peak was probably 2005. So i would say i'm not really as good as i used to be. Better at perhaps improvising as i compose more and that translates but there was a time when i could play all of chopin's etudes at tempo or just about.
granted not as good as that but ya. I was pretty good.
meriter
this is kinda nice though maybe a bit sappy for a hotel lounge
