I receive a music mp3 from one of the Pianologist readers, Alvin Teh. He is a 21 years old musician whom I met at the Be An Idol website. Due to his enthusiasm in music, we would like to share with you about the music he created. The file is name GuXiaNG.. I don’t know what it stands for. Play his 3.16 minutes music: GuXiaNg This piece is in C major. Below is the song structure: 0.00-0.30 – Part I - This is the introduction with full warm sustaining pad, some subtle ...

刚从吉隆玻回来，出席了2007年大马创作人协会颁奖典礼。很荣幸坐在我左边的是《情非得已》作词人张国祥夫妇，坐在右边的是荣获最年轻创作人成就奖，伍家辉。虽然今年如往常一样，我都没份领奖，还好可以帮这些得奖人拍些合照。 《情非得已》获得海外最高版税奖。作词人：张国祥与美貌的太太。 《情非得已》作曲人：汤小康（右），绝对Super Star评判：管启源（中）。本地著名音乐人：罗觥荃 （就是小弟本人，哈！） 下载《情非得已》Qing Fei De Yi Chord chart 下载《情非得已》简谱 下载《情非得已》吉他乐谱

The idea came to me when I was in the toilet doing... something. I use to perform this song alone with only a piano in bossa nova style, which turned out to be not so satisfying even for myself. That's why instead of trying to make it sound good following the original bossa nova style of this song, I decided to change the whole arrangement of the song. This is what I came up with.. [audio:http://pianologist.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/one-note-samba.mp3] Morale of the story, when performing piano solos, there will be a lot of songs that ...

You suck man...... Discouragement from people around you is an inevitable phase in music learning. The great alto saxophonist, Charlie Parker, used to practise 16 hours a day at home, until his neighbours beg him to stop. The great pianist, Keith Jarret, had a solo recital in Alice Tull Hall at Lincoln Center, gave a wonderful performance but was poorly commented by the media, causing him a nervous breakdown. For about two weeks he sat on his front porch and stared into space and didn’t want to talk to anyone. Jazz ...

I have heard about professional music arrangers who are capable of completing his arrangement task within 2-5 hours. Most beginners are amazed by the speed and quality of those final products --beautiful music arrangements of simple pop songs. Don’t be surprised, every musician with enough practice can do it too. Here, I will give you some guidelines how I can do it within 60 minutes. Preparation and skill requirement In order to be able to complete a full pop song music arrangement in 60 minutes, you must have these abilities and pre-arranged ...

Erroll Garner, one of the greatest jazz pianist that ever lived, who never learnt to read sheet music. Its hard to find a pianist who can swing as hard as Garner. Check out the pure joy of jazz piano playing [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g32oijfkhH4] In his version of lullaby of birdland, you can see how he create some really nice melodies by developing the two bar motif starting from the start of his solo. Check out the transcription of his solo in this file.. erroll-garner-solo-on-lullaby-of-birdland.pdf have fun, and enjoy......

We Pianologists have been doing countless recording projects over the years. Here we would like to let you have a glimpse of what we do, and how we do an arrangement of a song, step by step. Most of our clients actually don't have any background in any music instruments, but still share our passion for music. Sometimes they will come up with a melody in their head, and hope to turn it into a song with full arrangement. What we will ask them to do is to make a very ...

Most sites and blogs are silent! I mean no music. However, there is a minority that plays music automatically, which is really annoying. At least I feel disturbed if a site plays a long non-stop music. Finding the stop button is my instant respond. If I can't find it within 5 seconds, most probably I will close the site from my browser. Realizing these circumstances, I still made one for my blog. Why???!! Before I tell you the reason I made music for my blog, let’s consider the reason why most ...

I previously wrote a review of an open sourced piano game: Piano Hero. Meanwhile, Piano Wizard is another piano game that claims that it is a fun and useful program that can actually teach you how to play the piano. I will review both of the software here and show you the result of my comparison. Both softwares combine the fun of a video/PC game with the fundamental of piano playing. Piano Wizard: Allegro Rainbow introduced 2 Piano Wizard software packages: 1. The Piano Wizard Easy Mode – This is ...

我时常在民歌餐厅驻唱，所以有收集了一些歌词。而多数的歌词里都有chord chart. 这是方便民歌乐手伴奏时参考。 庾澄庆-戒不掉这一首歌最特别的chord就在副歌的这一句：   Dm DmM7 G 每个表情都能治疗 相思的煎熬 DmM7 = D minor with Major 7th chord 下载 戒不掉-庾澄庆-歌谱