| LearnJazzPiano.com archives: Concert tomorrow | |
| Scot -- 12/15/2006, 20:45:48 -- #31740 | |
| How many of you live in Bellingham? Anyway, wish me luck. I'm putting on an hour and a half solo piano improvisational Christmas concert. The really nice bit is that it's on the best piano in town, in the best room to play in. If you live near and want to see it, it starts at 2pm at the museum (Whatcom Museum of History on Bay street). | |
| YourMove -- 12/15/2006, 23:53:07 -- #31740 | |
| Internet broadcast please !!!! Good luck and have fun and best greetings to Santa Claus :) | |
| 7 -- 12/16/2006, 10:54:22 -- #31740 | |
| Break a leg! | |
| Styles -- 12/17/2006, 18:54:11 -- #31740 | |
| Have fun Scott | |
| YourMove -- 12/18/2006, 09:22:43 -- #31740 | |
| Scot, do you mind to give us a little report ? Or is christmas now rotten to you ;-) ? | |
| SolArt -- 12/19/2006, 03:53:15 -- #31740 | |
| Neato. What exact brand of piano is it? Do you ever sing a couple of songs in your gigs? | |
| SolArt -- 12/20/2006, 08:04:08 -- #31740 | |
| :( | |
| Scot -- 12/21/2006, 15:47:28 -- #31740 | |
| Hi folks, Sorry I haven't responded. I've been incredibly busy these days gigging. Every single night since the 8th of this month. Some of those days twice, and almost all of them down in Seattle, 100 miles south of where I live. Lots of driving, sleeping on couches, plus I'm involved in getting a house ready for vacation rentals near Mt Baker Ski area, so life has been very full. The concert went great. I was amazed at the response, actually. Hey, here's a newspaper article. They did a little interview, but got everything wrong :) http://www.bellinghamherald.com/135/story/44046.html So for the concert I played Christmas tunes with a lot of improvisation. Different styles, moods, tempos, etc... Some tunes I really stretches out on and broke the form, such as Little Drummer Boy which is a nice vehicle for improv. Other tunes I played twice through and ended, like The Christmas Song. After each tune the audience went nuts and wouldn't stop clapping until I started the next tune. The place was packed, no more seats, probably around 300 people. I was told afterwards that even more people gave up because they couldn't find parking. If I had a CD available, I probably would have sold fifty of them. It's the first solo piano concert I've done. I'll need to do more! That's the beauty of solo piano, there's no other musicians to hold you back. Only yourself, and if you're ready to have some fun out there and show them what you like to do at home in your livingroom, then the show can't possibly be anything else but a success. No recordings, sorry, my Mini-disc recorder broke a couple months ago and the one I want is not cheap :) | |
| Scot -- 12/21/2006, 15:48:08 -- #31740 | |
| By the way, if you go to my "myspace" page you can hear a little bit of how I played Greensleeves (What Child Is This) http://www.myspace.com/scotranney | |
| JHMurray -- 12/22/2006, 18:22:25 -- #31740 | |
| Way to go, Scot. | |
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