This music was first uploaded 2 months ago. Sophie has been working on it since then have better fluidity and expression. Yesterday, 11-19-23, we recorded it again. I decided to exchange the files. If you heard it before there is  remarkable difference. I am proud of her.

Song for Johanna was written by Franz Gordan. Sophie is a student of mine, age 14, who I have been teaching for 4.5 years. There is a playlist with her name that has various pieces she has played or worked on with me since she was 9.

Learning to play the piano is more than learning to play the right note at the right time. A beginner doesn't have enough control over their hands to be able to affect how the note is played - how the keys are touched, and the sound blended. Can the emotion be felt? The player has to know the language of music so well that they don't have to think about the notes being played, and can separate themselves to  listen to the music they are playing. 

Unfortunately, most piano teachers can't teach this because they can't get beyond teaching songs in piano method books - They can only teach what they were taught. I have heard many parents tell me they took lessons when they were young, and when I ask if they are still playing, the answer is almost always, "No". They forgot whatever they had memorized so long ago and they never learned how to create music, so it is all moot. It is like learning another language. You can memorize a phrase but you don't understand how the words in the phrase work together. You can't have a conversation in that language let alone show emotion. Music is a conversation.

I have been teaching for more than 50 years and have had hundreds of students. Most don't last long enough to get to the point I am with Sophie - and hopefully I will have a few more years with her before she goes out in the world. But what she is learning she won't forget. Memorizing music is a small portion of what we do. There is so much more to learning how to play music on any instrument than learning how to play what someone else wrote. 

Listen to her playlist and hear her growth. Song for Johanna is the beginning of her next phase of learning. Her lessons are 2-3 hours. She couldn't learn enough in one hour to play with this much maturity. She is such a joy to teach.

Song forJohanna Played by Sophie (revision)

A dystopian scenario! There has been drought for many decades. A generation or more has only experienced rain in old movies on the TV. Enter the Rain Dreamers, mystics with the power to induce mass hallucinations of heavy life-giving rain. Do they bring hope, or is it just a dream? One way, perhaps rather fancifully, I've imagined climate change may play out.

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
― Paul Valery (French poet and essayist)

Climate change is the greatest threat to humanity, perhaps ever. Global temperatures are rising at an unprecedented rate, causing drought and forest fires and impacting human health.
― Cary Kennedy (Democratic politician)

Rain down, you heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness.
― Isaiah 45:8 New King James Version

Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.
― John Updike (Author)

Lyrics
The blinds are closed, the A/C’s on
It’s burning up outside
The streets are empty, no one’s there
We’ve all been told to hide
It hasn’t rained in many years, the land’s a dusty haze
Nothing there to tell you it’s
Where cattle used to graze

You love the sound of heavy rain
Pouring down to flood the street
But you’ve only seen it on TV
When divided lovers finally get to meet … Love, sweet love!

But I can help you … cos I’m a rain dreamer
Yes, I can help you … cos I’m a rain dreamer
I’ll dream up some rain for you
Out of a sky of cloudless blue (sky of cloudless blue)

I’m going north, they'd like some rain
They want me there they say
They wanna feel it trickle down their backs
Like a streamlet on its way
To feed a river heading down
To join a sea they’ve never seen
And they’ll pay me well for my mystic spell
Even if it’s just a dream!

They love … They love the sound of heavy rain
Tipping down to flood the ground
But they’ve only seen it on TV
When the hero saves his girl from being drowned … Go, man, go!

But I can help you … cos I’m a rain dreamer
Yes, I can help you … cos I’m a rain dreamer
I’ll dream up some rain for you
Out of a sky of cloudless blue (sky of cloudless blue)
I’m a rain dreamer, I’m a rain dreamer, I’m a rain dreamer
I’m a rain dreamer, I’m a rain dreamer, dream, dream, dream . . .
. . . Rain! Rain! Rain!

Track credits
Music: Michael Sellers & Sergio Aguilar
Lyrics: Michael Sellers
Vocals: Michael Sellers & Chris Curtis
Guitars & bass, keyboards: Sergio Aguilar
Drums: Juan Herrea
Production, musical arrangement, mixing & mastering: Sergio Aguilar
Cover design: Michael Sellers
Cover photo: Image from Pixabay

Urban Tales

Rain Dreamers

Buy at Bandcamp

Rain Dreamers ft Chris Curtis

Remix for no profits / No monetization

https://youtu.be/8GplTWA2Un4?si=_Z5b9UiGcAm6fyEU

Frank Ocean-Lost (Dramantic Remix) Prod By Black Eagle Beats

The first draft here: https://soundcloud.com/michele-ansani/riverberi
Final recording on 2 August 2024 in Milan, with Lorenzo Di Biasi (www.sartoria57studio.it/)

Picture is from Pietro Corrao

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Composed by Michele Ansani (2023).
Posted on SoundCloud: 2024, August 3.

Riverberi (final draft) *

insky

winning key - 23:8:2024, 7.59 am

This is my latest track "MONOPOLY" and it's based on FREEDOM being monopolized by Politicians, Corporations & Elites Worldwide.

Vocals, Lyrics & Production by RadBabyJoe.

LYRICS:

It's a Monopoly... (repeat)

Roll the Dice, Lose or Win,
It's all a Game.
But they hold the keys and we're
Chained to their name.

It's a Monopoly... (repeat)

They say we're Free to walk,
Free to chose our own path,
Free to chose our road.

But every step I take,
Feels like it’s like it’s full of wrath,
Feels like a debt that's owed.

So here's to the DREAMERS,
Who refuse to Play.

To the one's who break FREE,
Find their own way.

Maybe One Day,
We'll crack this Code.

And FREEDOM won't be something,
We're SOLD!

It's a Monopoly... (repeat)

Monopoly

Written By Nick Drake
Performed By DMc.Music / Ian Granton
Recorded By DMc.Music / David Tolley
Mixed By DMc.Music
Taken From The Nick Drake EP - Listen/Stream On Bandcamp - https://3844dmc.bandcamp.com/album/nick-drake-ep

At The Chime Of A City Clock (Lyrics)

A city freeze get on your knees
Pray for warmth and green paper
A city drought, you’re down and out
See your trousers don’t taper
Saddle up kick your feet
Ride the range of a London street
Travel to a local plane
Turn around and come back again

And at the chime of a city clock
Put up your road block
Hang on to your crown
For a stone in a tin can
Is wealth to the city man
Who leaves his armour down

Stay indoors beneath the floors
Talk with neighbours only
The games you play make people say
You’re either weird or lonely
A city star won’t shine too far
On account of the way you are
And the beads around your face
Make you sure to fit back in place

And at the beat of a city drum
See how your friends come in twos,
Or threes or more
For the sound of a busy place
Is fine for a pretty face
Who knows what a face is for

The city clown will soon fall down
Without a face to hide in
And he will lose if he won’t choose
The one he may confide in
Sonny boy with smokes for sale
Went to ground with a face so pale
And never heard about the change
Showed his hand and fell out of range

In the light of a city square
Find out that face that’s fair
Keep it by your side
When the light of the city falls
You fly to the city walls
Take off with your bride

But at the chime of a city clock
Put up your road block
Hang on to your crown
For a stone in a tin can
Is wealth to the city man
Who leaves his armour Down

Lyrics By Nick Drake
Copyright @IslandRecords

From Nick Drake EP
Written By Nick Drake
Performed By DMc.Music / Ian Granton
Recorded By DMc.Music / David Tolley
Mixed By DMc.Music
Copyright @IslandRecords

At The Chime Of A City Clock

Just Jammin

5:15 the Angels Have Gone (Bowie cover) [alternative version]

Whatever about my song... As promised in the poem track here is a person who can potentially help you change your life 🫶🏽

Meet Gabor Maté

https://youtu.be/66cYcSak6nE?si=1hnPhfgdqEhheE34


Also 🌈

Listen to Rainbows & Dreams by No killie fish on #SoundCloud
https://on.soundcloud.com/6zxTUha3vdmkgVmdaZ

Please feast your ears on my fellow country man Johnny. What a ball of positive love Johnny is. We just connected last week but this will be a permanent ear rabbit hole. Well worth connecting to this Irish man.
I got distracted half way through these lyrics and got poked with that song and that's where the rainbow in us reference came from so thanks my friend 🫡🫶🏽🔆


Song Pic
This was my breaky this morning. We call it eggs and soldiers. We luckily regularly had it as kids. So boil an egg for 4 mins so it's soft boiled and then cut strips of buttered toast and dip them in the egg. it's so amazing. I had forgotten about it for about 30 years and a couple of years ago it roared back when I gave it to my kids which they now love. A yummy breakfast indeed 🫡😊🌍 Thanks Chickens and Bread and Cows and well you get the jist... for keeping me ALIVE 👌🏾

Then the most important part of the song was delivered by a very close friend that needed help so the BE lyrics were born from me wanting to send them all the healing power I could as they needed it. So thanks for that and I hope you're all good 🫶🏽♾️

For the record I ain't no healer but I believe good intention is the way forward for us all so 🤷🏾‍♂️ Just keeping it pure and real where possible 

I do have a hunch though that pure intention holds way more power then science currently knows or considers and accepts. Just a hunch I don't get too hung up on it and I think that's part of keeping intention clear.

Think it, feel it, send it and forget it... The forget it is important because you don't allow your ego attach worry to it then which may warp the projection of your good intentions

Now, the next day, Beating Edge just sent me a version as a thank you for thinking about them yesterday and I popped some vocal on it. Guys, thats amazing and pure instinctual musicianship right there. Well done

https://soundcloud.com/beatingedge
Connect with Beating Edge here

Lyrics

Miracle me
Miracle you
Born to Earth of Sun lightened new
We talk to spirit
Eight billion versions
We speak to all
Talk soul emersions

Heaters
Lights
Love all life's
Rainbow vessels
Intent finds bright
Shine these hues on all our colours
Intelligence tuned
Floodlights of fullest

You're alive
You're the prize
Prune proof with your eyes
BE strong
BE wise
Source love
BE hive
You're alive
You're the prize
Prove proof with your eyes

Radiant potential to soothe your nerve
Guide with word, paint, musical verve
Verse for you written by any
Matter is made for reference of many

Worth to live on past it's creator
Love evolutionary thought from a maker
Manifest zest to seed good behaviour
Survival of fittest makes you gene saviour

You're alive
You're the prize
Prune proof with your eyes
BE strong
BE wise
Source love
BE hive
You're alive
You're the prize
Prove proof with your eyes

Savour this life
We suffer
We live
Savour the strife
Good reference to give
Transmute the evil
Dark poisoned with light
Here, have a moment with eternal might

We know it's hard
But we are alive
Those difficult feelings challenge our hive
You're worth the pain
We are all g.o.a.t
Keep steady your ship
Life is your boat

You're alive
You're the prize
Prune proof with your eyes
BE strong
BE wise
Source love
BE hive
You're alive
You're the prize
Prune proof with your eyes

You're Alive
The proof is in your eyes
You're Alive

Alive

Another previously unheard track from 4 years ago. Still in the doldrums here. Sorry for not listening to all your fine music folks.

Two sides of the same coin. A song of two halves,night and day.

I love the end of the day
When the blue sky darkens
And the light fades away
The sky recedes 
And the colour grows thin
The world opens up
To let the universe in

Sharp edges soften
Become almost blurred
Darkness is birthing
A whole different world

Night and Day

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John Lennon 80th Birthday Tribute - Jealous Guy (DMc Cover Out Now)

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Brand New - Soul Shaker EP - Out Now. Listen/Buy Here
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Brand New Single - Soul Shaker Blues - Out Now
Watch The Official Lyric Video Here 
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Brand New Single - Keeping It Together - Out Now.
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Brand New Single - Summer Love - Out Now
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New Single/EP - Enlightened - Out Now.
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Enlightened (Official Lyric Video) Here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne13b2Wwwgc&feature=youtu.be

Bravado - Neil Peart/Rush Tribute - Out Now.
Watch The Tribute Lyric Video Here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OC7ZT7Em3oU

Brand New Single - Keeps On Getting Better - Out Now.
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Brand New Single - The Morning Sun - Out Now 
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New Single - 100% Rock And Roll / Rebel Rebel - Out Now
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New Single - Voodoo Man - Out Now
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New Track - Breathe - Out Now
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New Single - Moving On Again - Out Now.
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Tomorrow Today EP - Out Now -
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New Single - Both The Same - Out Now 
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Watch The Official Video For Single - Nothing In Your Way - Here -
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Debut LP - Rock And Roll Feeling - Out Now - 
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