What Song Are You Listening To Right Now (3)

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[gennypearl]

Oh, Me by Nirvana

 

[Ada Lovelace]

Yeah I kinda/sorta thought you'd think that dude was cute (hahaha No need to explain crushing on him ;-)

Not to sound cheeky myself, but I love it when girls dig a guy who plays the piano too, obviously lol I actually taught myself, I play mostly by ear. I learned in high school. I was already interested in learning, and would sometimes sneak into the piano rooms which belonged to the band, and I would sit at the pianos until someone kicked me out (I wasn't in band lol). I played football, and even though I was intelligent (I aced BC Calculus for example), no one would look at me and think, "piano". Well, this girl and I fell in love with each other ... storybook type of stuff. I mean, the stuff of legend type of falling in love. And when she saw me play the piano for the first time, the way she watched me and came and sat next to me, etc (I'll spare the details), let's just say I connected the piano in those moments to almost falling in love with it. And I became obsessed with it. And that girl I fell in love with, wrote a poem to me with Beethoven as the key figure in the poem, and I became obsessed with Beethoven as well. I would find any and every piano I could around the city: churches, hotels, wherever, and sit at them and play, teaching myself songs, teaching myself techniques, making up my own music. And I befriended a girl who was deaf, but who was a prodigy at the piano ... which only further caused me to be obsessed with the piano, Beethoven, and finding my own voice with it.

When we broke up, in the same way our relationship was the stuff of legend lol ... so was our break up. Like ripping two worlds in half. And that caused me to even more become obsessed with the piano, because it became my outlet and would help heal me. In fact, from high school, I would go on to the US Naval Academy ... and when we first got there, we weren't allowed to have but only a few personal items (like photographs of family, gf/bf, etc). Most of the guys would have a photo of a girlfriend, or their family. Well, I had a horror of a home life, and the girl I had been in love with, we had broken up shortly before I went to the Academy. So what did I have a picture of ? A picture of the piano I learned to play on from my high school. So while these other guys would sit and stare at pics of their gf ... I had a pic of a piano It was a link to love, life, passion, and pain. And in my off time, as I could, there was this piano there at the Academy in this main Hall that I would sit at and play, and the tourists would come and listen to me play. And when we had leave, the other guys in my Company would bring their gf's to sit and listen to me play haha, which was a bad idea for them And I was still very much brooding and caught up in my own Renaissance thing going on ... all very poetic, dynamic, and I loved it lol

It's one reason I don't publish vids, because it's still very personal to me. Every now and then I'll still sit down at a piano in public and play, but not as much as I used to. And the few times I'll make a vid for someone, is on request, and typically for someone I'm in a relationship with I appreciate peeps who can perform in public, or show their passion in such a way that they don't mind who is watching them ... but I also appreciate the person who saves their genius, inspiration, or fire ... and shares them very specifically, so that when they do share it with someone, it's like a gift that is only for them and no one else. Also, my hands don't move as fast as they once did either, I've had surgery on my wrists. You can't tell from looking at them I've had surgery (unless I show the scars), but if I get moving too intensely, it's painful. I also prefer the guitar most days to piano. I need that spark in my world for the piano to come alive, and the last year that spark has become a fire, and not the romantic kind. So it's more guitar for me these days.

[/waxing nostalgic] lol

And yeah, Maksim Mrvica has some hawt sitting there playing

Hey and thank you too, I like the way you actually shared a bit of backstory to your own links. Makes them more personal, which is why I shared in kind ^ _ ^

It was so lovely of you to share about how meaningful the piano is to you. My family has moved from Germany to London, NYC, DC, and now LA, and we've brought the piano my great-grandparents gave to my parents when they married to each location. It's so important to us.

I understand about being selective with sharing music you've created. It's very personal.

This is one of my favorite songs on the piano:

It's so beautiful and serene to me.

 

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It was so lovely of you to share about how meaningful the piano is to you. My family has moved from Germany to London, NYC, DC, and now LA, and we've brought the piano my great-grandparents gave to my parents when they married to each location. It's so important to us.

Awesome That's very cool, the type of thing you want to keep around and pass on from generation to generation.

This is one of my favorite songs on the piano:

It's so beautiful and serene to me.

Yessssssssssssssssss. Beautiful song. Is that you playing it on the piano you're talking about ? Regardless ... I used to play this song as a warm up song haha One of my favs too

 

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Eighties Magic:

 

[DaisyMae]

 

[DaisyMae]

 

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One of my favs !!!!!

 

[Ada Lovelace]

Yessssssssssssssssss. Beautiful song. Is that you playing it on the piano you're talking about ? Regardless ... I used to play this song as a warm up song haha One of my favs too

Awesome That's very cool, the type of thing you want to keep around and pass on from generation to generation.

Yessssssssssssssssss. Beautiful song. Is that you playing it on the piano you're talking about ? Regardless ... I used to play this song as a warm up song haha One of my favs too

No, that's not me. I wish I could play as beautifully as the girl in the video! She's fantastic. I did actually recently record myself playing that song, but I haven't uploaded it yet.

This is me playing another song I think is lovely. It's like a poignant lullaby to me; very pretty but in more of a contemplative way rather than a cheery one -

 

[Ada Lovelace]

Sharing videos led to me listening to this song. It's When You Say My Name by Mario Spinetti. His wife choreographed this dance!

The video is another one that looks archaic due to lousy camera settings, but is actually not that old, haha.

 

[Maka]

 

[Thunder Peel]

 

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No, that's not me. I wish I could play as beautifully as the girl in the video! She's fantastic. I did actually recently record myself playing that song, but I haven't uploaded it yet.

This is me playing another song I think is lovely. It's like a poignant lullaby to me; very pretty but in more of a contemplative way rather than a cheery one -

That's lovely ... Nursery Rhyme of Another Summer You play it well ! And I'm assuming that's the piano you mentioned, that's cool for sharing it

Okay one more piano piece then ... it's relatively easy and fun to play. You like Daft Punk, so I'm guessing you already know who Chilly Gonzales is then. Evolving Doors is awesomeness imo. I'll link to two vids of it ... for some reason, I can never find him playing the full piece. Whenever I find him playing it, he's only playing parts of it. And those who cover it, for some reason they don't seem to play it all that well, they stumble a lot, etc. So anyways, here's him playing a quick version of it:

And then here's the full version of the song (he's playing it). I'm not a fan of the video that goes along with it, however ... it doesn't seem to match the music at all imo lol. So I prefer to close my eyes, ignore the vid, and listen to the music

 

[chaoticfirefly]

The Devil in I by Slipknot

 

[gennypearl]

I will survive

 

[Sketcher]

 

[Thunder Peel]

 

[markb77]

Tears for Fears - Shout

Thanks, Pandora.

 

[seashale76]

 

[markb77]

77s - Do It For Love