Its all about holding onto your dream, in this case, music, when times seem toughest. 'Emotional Playing ......'

Do you ever suffer 'musician's block'? Have you ever felt inadequate? Have you been stuck for ideas, or tried to create and nothing seems to come out? Its a 'war' inside one's own mind.  Perfectionism, lack of time, 'I'm not good enough' …. excuses abound …. eventually negative feelings can creep in  and override that 'dream', whatever it may be, [in this case music]. Frustration can creep in and 'musician's block' rears its ugly head.

Such thoughts may be reinforced, as one gets out of practice and the skills one gained eventually weaken ….. one feels like they need to start all over again; just as I did, when poor health intervened in my 'journey' and I felt that no progress had been made; that I had to start all over again; the 'fun' had been lost. …………….. My original goal: to enjoy, to escape, to heal, and to feel with music - my outlet-  had become a source of frustration. Maybe others can relate to such feelings?

Musicians are often described as quite emotionally sensitive people, whom are able to push out such emotions into, and through their music -  and it is these internal feelings that make a difference - it doesn't have to be 'perfect' - it is a journey of story-telling and of transporting ourselves and others away. This was my 'journey' and journeys can be 'rocky roads'.  

Musicians are story tellers with music, and not just with words - and it doesn't need to be 'perfect', creativity can never be 'perfect'.
- we feel and inject  pain, anger, sadness, happiness, and beauty, we reveal the emotions into the world of sound, transporting ourselves and other people into this 'world', often transcending what is 'technically correct' - yes, technique  is important too, but we try to bring it from the heart as well.

Music is my outlet. Yours too?

Whatever one's goal is; whether its for fun or to become famous (ummmm, lol), or to feel lost and escape the world of 'reality' for awhile… it is your dream, as long as it is a passion and it remains fun 

Some dear friends on SoundCloud encouraged me to keep going and I also watched some great videos about 'emotional playing' and learning how to relax into one's music without being overly self-critical. What also inspired me, in knowing that I would never become a 'concert great' :-), ... was that some great composers who achieve such passion and connect through 'emotional playing', are also famous for bad technique and playing wrong notes :-)

So - This is my renewed attempts - its a - Megs 'starting' again piece, a WIP [work in progress] and it brought me great comfort to know that I could once again, sit down at the piano and play at least; to rediscover the energy and satisfaction. To learn to be kinder on myself, to be patient and to know that we don't have to be 'perfect'  in creativity

- and most importantly to have fun in doing so! :-)

NOTE: This piece will also be worked on further and transformed into an orchestrated version with John Styles and Matt Baker, please stay tuned ….

Composer: Megan McCarthy
Solo Piano: Megan McCarthy
Mastered by: John Styles (OneVision CrossWorlds)

Hold Onto The Dream - Megs McCarthy (Producer: John Styles)

Tina Guo: Eclipse And Resurrection

I saw this collaboration thanks to Michel and I could not resist.
I hope you enjoy it.

If you want to listen good blues played by a great guitaist take a look in here: https://soundcloud.com/tytlblues

Slow Minor Blues In "A" By Tom Adams feat. Fivos Valachis

Lovely snowdrops in the garden... Imagine, how it would sound, if the little flowers could create some music... :)
I tried and this piece came up, when I was improvising on my piano. I added some strings and here it is... 
The german title means "Snowdrops whispering in evening snow"

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Schneeglöckchenwispern im Abendschnee - Snowdrops whisper in the evening snow

After a nice three hour choir rehearsal I had to relax a bit, so I felt it in my soul that a little song needed to be born. And out came this one, that I think says everything about me at the moment. I´m really happy with it, especially since it´s mostly improv but I´m pretty sure it will stay with me for awhile this one.

It´s about our fight with the unreachable, which is what most of us are always doing, trying to get somewhere, but when we get there a new goal appears, so in a way many of our goals are always unreachable.

Hope you enjoy it and please leave feedback if you do, and also if you don´t,  I really like reading all your comments my friends.

Unreachable

Into The Nebulae

Ben Woods playing DIO's Rainbow In The Dark on flamenco guitar. Amazing!!

Ben Woods - Flamenco - DIO -Rainbow In The Dark- (acoustic) Ben Woods On Flamenco Guitar

Tocando junto al Flautista Felipe Monque Ballesteros, mi primo músico! Tremendo gustazo compartir con él. Espero les guste.

"Playing Love" - Enio Morricone

Tchaikovsky II

Suite No. 1 For The Orchestra in D Minor Op.43 - Intermezzo

Fairytale

Pyrakantha

Torino, 15 November 2015
about.me/fivos.valachis

More than 3.000.000 plays on SoundCloud and many friends from around the world.
At 20 May 2013, when I made my first piece sharing (Fivosvalachis – Starting-terminus), was not imaginable.

it is obvious that I'm happy and I want to share my happiness with all of you who have participated and helped me in this journey.

all of you who have encouraged me with listening, commenting, with your likes, the repostings and support in other social media:
facebook: www.facebook.com/FivosValachis/
youtube: www.youtube.com/user/fvalachis/
spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/25SRM5wLczZ3uTLcVXRoe7

all of you who bought my albums allowing me to take time to my work and dedicate it to music:
itunes.apple.com/artist/fivos-valachis/id791504632
fivos-music.bandcamp.com/

all the great musicians who have participated in my projects, adding their sensitivity to my compositions and those that have allowed me to work on their wonderful projects.
They are all listed here:
soundcloud.com/fivosvalachis/sets/collaborations
soundcloud.com/fivosvalachis/sets/collabs-in-other-projects-and

all the friends known in this virtual square, musicians and not, that for personal reasons, a composition was born, listed here:
soundcloud.com/fivosvalachis/sets/dedications

all the PianoCloud friends and specially Pamela Chng that has proposed me:
www.facebook.com/groups/ThePianoCloud/
thepianocloud.com/

Pascal Durif for its beautiful photographs that were often a source of inspiration:
www.facebook.com/pascal.durif.9

Nick Thomas to be chosen many times to transmit my music at Redruth Radio:
www.facebook.com/nick.thomas.58
www.mixcloud.com/tag/nick-thomas/
soundcloud.com/fivosvalachis/sets/radio-trasmissions

Giovanni Dissegna for the organization of my concerts:
@giovanni-dissegna

and of course my family:
soundcloud.com/fivosvalachis/sets/my-family-album

About Me: http://about.me/fivos.valachis
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Welcome in my musical diary. Piano Solo.
I hope you enjoy it.
contact: soundcloud@valachis.com
My official page: https://soundcloud.com/fivosvalachis

Slow Minor Blues In "A" By Tom Adams feat. Fivos Valachis

Fivos Collabs and Reposts