Duet of the fastest jazz pianist: Chick Corea & Hiromi Uehara – Spain

[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZaOd-fvWU0] I believe there is no need to tell you more about Chick Corea, the fastest jazz pianist known to me. I wonder how his mind think of the notes — 100 notes per second??? I really have no idea! It is simply too fast! Let’s hear something about Hiromi Uehara Hiromi Uehara first mesmerized…

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How I arrange “Speak” ??????

Many hours were spent to do the arrangement of this song. The video shows all the tracks involved. Virtuální kancelá? . Every track consumes about 1-2 hours to programme. My PC is under power so some of track had to bounced before proceeding. [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZB71sebKV8] I previously recorded a live video singing this song. To listen…

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Learning blue scales

[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBtGyGe2jbA] It amazed me when I realized the fact that most musician in the US learn blue scale first before major scale. I learn classical piano for 10 years and I never touched or played blue scale ever in my classical lesson. Most guitarist also learn blue scale as the basic. According to www.learnjazzpiano.com, The…

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The secrets of pop music arrangement

Click the link below will download a power point file.I prepared the file to share about music arrangement during a song writing camp year 2006. It is in Chinese languange. Secret of Pop Music Arrangement

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Peace Piece (Bill Evans) – solo jazz piano

[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0iZ1j00wSU] I found this great instruction video at youtube. There are commentary on the video screen. website load testing . However, it is very hard to read the commentary while listening and watching Doug McKenzie play the piece. You might want to pause the video from time to time.

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MV – Hyacinth ???

[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UEGhFVapZQ] This MV is included in the CD of my 2nd album – Simple Melody. But the song itself is only available in my 1st album – Kite Shepherd. I love the music arrangement. There are many live instrument recorded – clarinet, violin, guitar. dedicated server . Look out for the augmented chord I used…

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Original song: Speak ??

It has been years since I first determined to write a song which can be sold to major label artist. I asked for advices from Wei Guan, my senior who is also a song writer who wrote the song ?????????. He said his song writing process is simple. He will take about an hour time…

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