This is one of my favorite pieces in the Simply Music piano method.
It is a jazz piece composed by Neil Moore from the Level 4 repertoire and is quite different from the other songs I’ve learnt. It sounds more atmospheric and uses the damper pedal quite a lot to mix all the notes together.
I’ve been learning piano for about 2 years.
This is my third self-taught song. I learnt this song from the visual novel game and anime Clannad by using the song as practice for sightreading the right hand which went well. I figured I should try learn the left hand part as well and after a weekend and a few days after work of practice I managed to play it both hands!
This is recorded using my new Zoom Q3HD camera that I received in the mail yesterday.
The video looks bad compared to my digital camera but the sound quality is great! Next time I’ll try recording during the day time when there is more light and see if it’s any better.
I really like this song from the visual novel game called “ef – the latter tale”, so with another friend who plays violin at my drawing club, we attempted to play it with limited success.
I figured out the chords from the music sheet and arranged my own basic accompaniment with my friend sightreading the melody on violin.
I totally messed up the chords in some parts! lol! In my opinion it sounded like a disaster as I messed it up, but it’s all for fun! 
We did re-record a few more times, but we got worse the more we retook. orz.
This is my 2nd time trying to play piano with other people. I have to say it’s rather challenging. Need to build up my experience.
After making some progress by learning to play Tsubasa wo Kudasai, I decided to focus back on the “You” song that I could only play the intro part from.
I’ve been working on this song for a while and now can play most of it apart from one part which I have a lot of trouble with that involves a lot of fast high notes that are written on ledger lines.
Anyways, I’m liking how it sounds now, it’s definitely is a step forward from my initial “You” intro videos and sounds more complete.
Again, I have been learning piano for almost 1.5 years.
So far with my music studies, apart from the Simply music songs, I’ve only really managed to learn the intro to the Higurashi – You song that I self taught myself. Another self-taught song that I worked on recently is Tsubasa wo kudasai.
It seems to be a popular song in Japan and is used in the anime K-on and is the ending song of the Evangelion 2.0 movie. I wanted to play it on piano because of the catchy melody.
At the time, I still couldn’t read music sheets so I worked on memorizing the right hand melody, figured out the chords to put into the left hand and improvised playing them as arpeggios (I’ve since learnt that this is called making an arrangement of a song). I had to work with my piano teacher to fix up my selection of chords but thanks her I am now able to play it both hands!
When I managed to learn this song, I’d been playing for almost 1 and a half years with Simply Music piano lessons.
I based this arrangement from the music sheet available below under “K-ON! - Tsubasa o Kudasai” at: http://josh.agarrado.net/music/anime/
When in Japan last year, on 28th December, I bought a KORG microPiano after trying one out at Yodobashi Camera in Akihabara. I gave it a go for few times and giving it some thought for a few days, I decided to buy it.
I was after a portable digital piano that I could take with me when I wanted to practice away from home or to do an informal jam session with friends.
It cost me 27500 yen, (about $300AU) so it was quite decently priced for it’s specs. I actually like the piano sound of this over my other two digital piano sounds.
Since there was a lack of reviews on the microPiano anywhere at the time, I recorded some videos of me playing various songs on it. It seems these videos have increased my youtube views quite a bit.
Alma mater blues by Neil Moore on KORG microPiano
I was testing the electric piano sound in the MicroPiano.
Canon chord progression on KORG microPiano
My Japanese friend taught me this chord progression while I was in Japan. He transposed the chord progression to C for me when he was teaching it to me.
Deep River on KORG microPiano
The song is Deep River by Neil Moore that I learnt from the Simply Music piano method.
I went to Tokyo at the end of last year around 2010 and one of my doujin friends took me out to do a jam session.
As one of my other friends from Australia who also plays piano went to Japan at the same time, i also invited him to join the Jam session.
It sounded okay, but i felt I really need more experience with doing jam sessions.
– Posted from an iPad
After visiting Tiananmen square, we entered a nearby subway station at the opposite side of the square and headed to our next destination some shopping complex that my dad’s work friend told him about called Z Plaza.
On our second day in Beijing, we decided to visit Tiananmen square. The hotel website stated that it was a 15 minute walk to Tiananmen square from the hotel, so I quickly located it on my iPad’s map and we headed off.
After a 2 hour flight from Shanghai that I slept through, we arrived at Beijing. This is the plane that we arrived on.
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