SG's Musings

While playing around on my keyboard last night decided that this piece (which I hadn’t previously liked very much) worked really well at a slow slow tempo in the blow tenor voice. Conjures up images of a smoky dark jazz bar late at night … The piece still needs a bit of practice but you get the idea

I recently took possession of my new pride and joy - a Roland E-09 arranger keyboard.  So now working on gaining some competency playing the thing !  Was very lucky to find a web site that has the best piano lessons I’ve ever come across.   http://www.learnpianoonline.com .  Now working my way through those.  Videos and/or recordings will be posted on this blog as I progress.

Starting out:

Irish Jig. Lisa, who runs learnpianoonline recently ran a little competition on her blog, getting people to play this tune.  I was too late for the comp but liked the tune.  Especially when played with the banjo voice on my keyboard.

Mary had a little Lamb.  From lesson 4.  First the nice piano version …

then, the not so nice version. This was a lot of fun. But if you’re a purist about these things, skip this one. Distorted guitar version ….

finally, a simple but very pretty version of Ode to Joy. played with loud glockenspiel voice