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| toby91 |
 Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2010 3:37 am |
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I have been absolutely in awe of Imogen since December 2009 and have been amazed by the quality of her songs and creativity. I've never heard anything like her music! I really love the way she plays the piano and I aspire to be able to improvise in the way that she does, one day 
I decided to do a cover of 'The Fire' from Ellipse, because, although fairly short, it conveys so many emotions. It took quite a while to get the phrasing and parts right and I must have stopped and restarted the camera about 100 times before I got it right!!
Here it is though Hope you all like it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyQQhf6YNMI
..The fire sound in the background is from Immi's 'instrumental' version of The Fire, which just contains the sound of the fire |
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| kev23 |
| Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2010 4:45 am |
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| Great job Toby! Say, is that actually just an electric keyboard? Sounds fantastic, at least on the recording. |
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| yummytea |
| Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2010 10:42 am |
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toby91 wrote: I must have stopped and restarted the camera about 100 times before I got it right!!
Practice makes perfect! 
Well done! You play beautifully! I wish I could play the piano like you... |
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| toby91 |
| Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2010 3:48 pm |
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@yummytea Thanks!! It's quite tricky to get all the little phrases right. Once learned though, it all seems to flow quite easily. As soon as there is a camera recording though, everything seems to get 10x more complicated!!  hehe |
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| toby91 |
| Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2010 3:52 pm |
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| @kev23 Thanks! Its a yamaha dgx-620 that I have on loan. It's fully weighted and has some alright piano sounds, but for this, I was using it as a MIDI controller. The piano sound was actually coming from 'Reason' sequencing software - I used an edited patch in the Reason Pianos library (Yamaha grand i think ) Sounds great, although the dynamic range isnt that easy to work with - as in, it's very hard to get the soft, pianissimo samples to trigger, even when trying to play very lightly!. |
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| Ambrosia |
| Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2010 7:38 am |
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Very nice job, Toby.
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| toby91 |
| Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2010 9:45 am |
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| Thanks!! @Ambrosia |
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| Senescence |
| Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2010 7:56 am |
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Very very nice !
Bravo ! |
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