Piano Music and Other Minor Creativity

[Choneis]

You will find all of my uploaded piano music at this link.

https://soundcloud.com/edward-chris-evjen

12 Songs now.

Before there was only 7, Enjoy.

Thought about creating a new Topic for other things I create, Decided to expand this one.

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[Ticonderoga]

That was actually quite enjoyable.
How long have you been playing?

[Choneis]

Since 5 some years old.  Don't have a precise memory when I started. But as for playing and enjoying it, I would say one year. I'm in grade 8 piano, Royal Conservatory. My joy in piano though is improv which I've been doing for one year, sometimes up to five hours a day, mostly around one though.

[Kevin]

Keep recording em :o

Any plans for continuing this or is it just for fun?

[Choneis]

Just for fun, a hobby.

[Flamecannon]

That sounded really nice. The piece was elegant yet eloquent. You should try to write it down, it'd be great. The last bit of a song sounds very similar to a certain piece though. What piano do you use?

I can't read notes but I do improv too, I learned from my sister a bit. However they don't have much movement, especially with the left hand. In fact they aren't nice at all :CCCC

[Choneis]

I have two pianos, one is a acoustic, but since I don't have a decent way of recording that I use a weighted electric connected to a midi recorder on my computer. So I have a midi file of piece, then I just play that though a patch file for sound. Export as wav, and I'm happy. I don't like playing the weighted electric. But it has began to annoy me that hours of improv which, in my opinion sound nice, will never be heard again. And only by me and my immediate family at the time.

As for musical quality, the strong G Minor chord is similar to the style of Beethoven, (Sonatina in G Major, its a song I play.) And the falling triads, (immediately after) are similar to those in Invention #13 in A minor by J.S. Bach. Some of the chording is inspired by a Russian Dance by Korobiniki, I believe, you would know it as 'the Tetris theme'. Besides the songs I play I listen to lots of classical music. Even with that said, I don't directly copy,  and lots of the ideas, ostinatos, phrases, sequences, and chord changes are unique and original to me.

Here, one 3 minute song is pathetic, I have ten more minutes of recorded improv, I just need to export it.

[Katadeus]

You have quite a bit of talent.

This is an electric keyboard, though, isn't it.
I'd love to hear you play on a real one.

[I-have-not]

Nice job. I used to play piano, but now I'm learning guitar.

[SWAT One]

Try to get ahold of some Joe Hisaishi.  That's good stuff.

[Choneis]

https://soundcloud.com/edward-chris-evjen/piano-improv-four something new.

and as a side point, I want to start naming some of these, piano improv is practical but boring. Chances are I will ignore your suggestion but you are stimulating creativity in your mind. I suppose that is good.

This new song is only 1:30 long however it is one of my favorites I recorded over 40 minutes in the computer and after all was cut and chopped only this 1:30 clip stood out. Oh well, besides if I let everything I recorded go on soundcloud I would fill up 2 hours of space in seconds.

Enough talk, listen to it, its nice. Its in E Major.

[Anti-Block]

Try to get ahold of some Joe Hisaishi.  That's good stuff.

HEELLL YES

listen to this man

[Anti-Block]

i like it, it has nice flow, and the chords are very enjoyable- very few octave chords(even though i forgetin love those)

reminds me of my improv, though a little better ;I

nice

[Choneis]

Joe Hisaishi is good.
I also listen to Dino (Can't remember his last name, by his name is Dino (Di'no)
And Douglas Trowbridge.

Olafur Arnalds and Yanni are also extremely inspiring.

[AvailsMew]

How do you do that? Like sit down and play chords and know they sound good together..