Eight tracks put together, set aside 20 minutes for you and relax. I hope enjoy these solo piano pieces.

Music for Memories, Future and Hope

Whatever the weather we regularly walk the coastal promenade between Folkestone and Hythe. Winter summer and all times in-between. It never disappoints, every time we go along the coast, the beach, the sea and sky are always offering a different experience. It’s always a time to reflect, contemplate or generally catch up with life.

When We Are Beside The Sea

When I was young, I lived in the country and in the summer, I loved to be outside as the dawn broke at four in the morning. It’s so peaceful, quiet and unspoilt by the noise of human activity.  This piece reminds me of those times.

Four In the Morning

This is a contemplative piece with mood swings. Sometimes however hard you try the outcome seems pre-determined and out of your control. Each section seems to reflect on a situation and then the realisation dawns, that it just “Came To Be”

And It Came To Be

And in the End, She Loves You So

An improvised composition created whilst experimenting with the Native Instruments Giant VST piano. It seemed to compliment the ideas that were being generated at the time.
Why the title?  I hear the words in the melody, sometimes what seems so important in life and must be achieved suddenly becomes far less important a feeling of liberation.

What Does It Matter Anyway

In my early years I spent a lot of time in the country - hours spent cycling with friends through deserted country lanes, helping and riding mother's horses and later earning my pocket money shifting bales of hay and straw in the summer. Plenty of time to contemplate the future. These are some of the thoughts that this melody evokes for me.

When I Was A Little Boy

Calm Before The Storm

Just For You

Always Together

This composition started as an experiment in using virtual instruments and an early attempt (in fact first attempt) at orchestration. It is very rough around the edges and highlights the need for me to improve my mixing skills, but I think it has something raw about it. I hope you find it interesting to listen to.

Uprising Twenty - Two

This piece like so many started as an accident, it sat in my "Songs to develop" folder for a while. At the time of finalising we were talking about insomnia and so the title was born. It even brings tears to my eyes!

Lonely In The Night

This track has had many titles and I’m not really sure that this is the right one. The development of the song from very melancholy building to hopeful then the feeling of arrival and returning to melancholy reminded me of the feelings I have in winter looking forward to the new spring and summertime.

Winter Blues To Summer Fun

This song is dedicated to my two nieces who sadly lost their mother back in 1999. In Cherry’s last few weeks, we regularly visited her and on one occasion I sat at the piano and came up with a few chords that have always remained with me and reminded me of that sad time. It has taken more than twenty years to get it to a point that I am happy with the song and so, at last here it is. 

It has been named “Cherry Blossom” but it could have been named “Why Did You Have to Leave Us Way too Soon” words that I hear in the melody, but I felt that was too long for a title, so compromised and made it a sub-title. I hope you enjoy the final recording.

Cherry Blossom

Solo piano composition with rolling arpeggios on Noire Felt piano with plenty of atmospheric reverb and delay. It's origins date back to the 1980s but has been dusted off and bought up to date for YouTube and SoundCloud and to be shared and hopefully enjoyed. Whilst finalising the track I was trying to decide on the cover art and looking though my various images I found this one by my 10-year-old grand-daughter and it just seemed to fit the composition, so the title "Dawn" was born and an experimental video has been created.

Dawn

An interesting challenge to write a short piece of music that constantly changes and never repeats a bar though out. The end result needing to at least seem pleasant to listen to. It certainly pushed me out of my comfort zone
 
I hope you enjoy this little bit of fun - any constructive criticism welcome to help the learning journey.
Thanks for listening

Endless Change (Short)

A track with Piano and Synths in an melancholy style, it is an idea that I am hoping to expand into a full piano piece sometime in the future
I hope you enjoy this piece - any constructive criticism welcome to help the learning journey.
Thanks for listening

Perpetual Dawning (Short)

When You Wake In The Morning

Just For Fun

Everyone knows that the British love their dogs, this little dog was no exception. Bloomer was born in Athens and lived there with my daughter for many happy years. She was quite a little character, so it was a great shame when we lost her a few years ago.

When I wrote this song, I could hear the two syllables of her name resonating in my head, so this became a song to remember her by, I hope you enjoy it.

For A Little Shaggy Dog

This is an experimental track for a recent challenge which was to create a short piece of music using only two monophonic lines in the form of a cannon. The result is a little weird, but it does have an interesting rhythm to it. Just a bit of fun, I hope you enjoy it.

Crab Cannon - Forward Back and Together

Back In Time

An Experimental Track exploring Lofi composition.

LoFi - Again & Again

In The Clouds

A short experimental track using Piano and Synth

A Trip to Pluto

Top of the Class

An ambient piano track that I hope will create some emotion for you, probably best heard on headphones, I hope you enjoy it.

Originally this idea came by listening to a YouTube video on composition then I used it as the basis for a short challenge piece on Max Konyi’s Sonic Sorcery channel under the title “Where I Must Return“

I turned it into this ambient track, I will possibly use the idea to create a choral piece in the future (maybe!).

Under the Moon

Imagine you are on a peaceful train journey travelling through the countryside, fields, woods and forests, wistfully thinking about your loved ones, listening to the melody, you are dreaming and reflective. Or maybe the song will summon up different emotions for you, let me know, I hope you enjoy listening.

Dreaming of You

Having skied down the Austrian mountains in the winter we decided to visit the same area for a break in the summer. We took the chair lift to the top and meandered our way back down paths not visible before. There were mountain cabins whose roofs we must have skied over, goats precariously balancing on ledges, cool fresh air and few people en-route through the secluded pine woodlands. A wonderful holiday - this song is a great reminder of that time.

Walking in the Mountains

In my early years I took piano lessons, regretfully I stopped them in my teens. I've always had a piano in the house and over the years have composed a number of songs (without words). What’s important to me is the melodic nature of the pieces and I wanted to share them with others. The origins of the music are probably influenced by my early classical lessons, Chopin and Schubert to name a couple. I love Liszt’s Hungarian and Rachmaninoff’s Russian styles but sadly my technical ability hampers the inclusion of their techniques.
Today’s home recording software allows many opportunities to develop compositions using other instruments to compliment the piano however, using the software has been a challenge, trying to get the “right” sound for the piano has been the most difficult part of the process. I’m slowly learning and will probably remix some of my current tracks as my experience grows.
Once I have recorded my heritage pieces, I plan to write a new selection of music predominantly piano but also experimenting with more or different instruments, watch this space!
Thank you for listening and commenting on my compositions and for the reposts, please don’t hesitate to offer constructive criticism, it could speed up the learning process.
Best Wishes,
Chris Cummins

Chris Cummins Music

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