30 days of piano – #7
I’m using a felt over the strings of the piano to give it a softer sound. Also, this is my debut playing cello. 4 tracks of G and C drone, about all…
30 days of piano – #6
Ok, time to start using numbers instead of days, because I’ve skipped so many now. I’m still going to try for 30 pieces in 30 days, it’s just that I won’t necessarily…
Swimming
Here’s something Mark and I have started working on. He had a whole backstory behind it which I can’t remember, something to do with swimming through an oil spill. Mark is playing a…
30 days of piano – day 5
Well, actually, day 8 maybe? I skipped a few days, but we’ll just keep that to ourselves, shall we? This song has lyrics, haven’t recorded the vocal yet, I just wanted to…
Piano recording setup
This is the current setup I have for recording my piano. No special preamps or anything, just using a simple 2-channel focusrite saffire interface and 2 mics: an AKG 414 and a…
Fender Rhodes refurbishing
My Fender Rhodes has been in storage for 2 years now, but since I have space again, I decided to bring it out of retirement. I replaced the tolex with a brown…
30 days of piano – day 4
This one has some more instrumentation to it: electric piano and french horns. Both of those are sample libraries. Since I’m recording with the piano which is situated in the back room…
30 days of piano – day 1
So I decided to give myself an assignment: write a new piece every day for 30 days. For this month, I’m going to limit myself to pieces featuring piano (some solo, some…
