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[Hayden]

Love it @LoriNelson - You guys sound awesome!

Live music returns to WA

[scott1]

So nice, Lori! Thanks for sharing.

[paul1523727]

Cool Lori looking good…great experience

[karl1]

Beautiful Adam. I’ve started learning this one and was blown away by how beautiful you made this sound. Fantastic job. Well done

[gregb]

Celebrating my first anniversary at pianogroove with renewal for another year and thought I would share some music. About 6 months in, I also started regular lessons with Tuomo; Manhattan is one of the first tunes he suggested, and I’m still working on it!

I enjoy the community and especially the classroom work as a chance to meet and interact with others (Thanks, Hayden).

Arrangement inspired by Blossom Dearie’s version.

[Hayden]

Beautiful arrangement and improvisation Greg.

I love the chord colours and inner voices in your intro and outro; the final chord you end on is mouth watering

Nicely done

[celia]

Greg,

That was outstanding!!! I love your arrangement. You are a gifted player. Thanks for sharing!

[paul1523727]

Hi Greg.

Great stuff and so many variations and colours in your playing. Love it! Well done. It must have been a tremendous challenge

Cheers - Paul

[adam_powell]

Lovely phrasing and control. Only one year in and producing this type of quality? Great job.

Cheers
Adam

[adam_powell]

Karl,
Thanks brother. I appreciate your kind words.

Adam

[Pierrot]

Sophisticated playing and arrangement Wow … great ! Now we will ask for more ))
Bravissimo

[George_Miller]

I thoroughly enjoyed listening to your version of “Manhattan”, Greg. You have so many styles all rolled into that one song. Well done!

[Tuomo]

@gregb

Happy 1-year anniversary!

This arrangement sounds so beautiful, this could be a take on a record!

totally can hear the Blossom Dearie - influence

She’s definitely one of the greatest, not only as a vocalist but as a pianist as well. To me, her way to accompany herself is just perfection.

Awesome job Greg,
All the best,

-Tuomo

[scott1]

Thanks so much for sharing this, Greg! So very fine. Like Tuomo, I’ve been a fan of Blossom Dearie for some time.

(Maybe you’ve mentioned this somewhere else, but might you share how you’re recording? Not looking for step-by-step details. DAW you use, etc.)

P:lease share more when you’re ready.

[gregb]

Thanks so much, @scott1, @Tuomo, @George_Miller, @celia, @Hayden, @adam_powell, @paul1523727.

One of the reasons it took me a year to share anything is because I didn’t know anything about recording! For the voicing homework, I’ve been recording mp3 directly to a USB stick plugged into my keyboard (Kawai mp7se) using the default piano sound on that instrument. However, I like the Ravenscroft library better than the Kawai onboard sounds, and used this as an opportunity to try and learn Logic Pro. Happy to provide beginner’s advice/experience to anyone who is in a similar situation.

[scott1]

Greg,
Thanks for the reply. Any book(s), etc. you’d recommend for starting out. I’ve been working with a few, but I’m still not clear on how best to begin.

[gregb]

@scott1 Based on reviews/excerpts, I had a hard time identifying a book that I wanted to buy. If you find one, let me know, because I’m the kind of person that likes a reference book instead of endless google searches.

But…what I’ve done over the past few weeks (I’ve still got 70 days left on my Logic free trial) is listen several times to the series of YT videos from Joshua Carney (MusicTechHelpGuy on YT). He’s got >100 videos, the ones that I’ve looked at are part of a 12 part series, Logic Pro 101. You can buy the series for $10 from his website or watch them for free (with annoying ads) on YT.

I’ve listened to and learned from the first 5 videos; for me, his teaching style is perfect with regard to content, speed, and repetition. Caveat: I’m not a huge fan of EDM which he uses for most of his examples.

Hope this helps.

[scott1]

@gregb,

Thanks for the information. In looking for his videos, I came across the wealth of information about Logic on the Ask.Video site and found just what I was looking for.

[gregb]

I’m in Tuomo’s foundations of improvisation class where the homework for the first week is to apply chord tone-based improv over “There will never be another you”. Coincidentally, I had been working on this tune (hasn’t everybody?) for the last 6 months, so thought I would share it here instead of the homework page.

Full disclosure: I borrowed Hayden’s interpretation of Arturo Sandoval’s version in the first A section (thanks, Hayden!).

[celia]

Greg…that was wonderful!!! Great job! If Tuomo gives grades, I would imagine you would get an A+++