Magnifique morceau, plein de vie. J'adore.

Très grande Symphonie allégorique.  Une qualité musicale digne des plus grands compositeurs classiques.

Insanely good how the instruments interact here! Exciting and a pleasure!

The  Rainbow

Incredible Journey

Grasslands

Verse 1
As I touch your trembling shoulder
I say love shouldn’t be this hard
You’re afraid to look at me
Scared I'll start
To make you talk, to make you think
Join the dots, find the link
You know that I won’t rest.. until I…

Chorus
Heal You, separate reality from myth
Heal you, be your rock, erase your sins
Heal you, starve the loss, and feed the wins
Heal you, heal you…

Verse 2
It’s not the nail, that’s all you see
So hand that hammer straight to me
You think that you've all the answers
But I know that you are wrong
So I will fight you, I will bite
I will find a way to prove what’s right
You know that I won’t rest…..until I…

Chorus
Heal You, separate reality from myth
Heal you, be your rock, erase your sins
Heal you, starve the loss, and feed the wins
Heal you, heal you...

Verse 3
I know you turn onto yourself
Silence every cry for help
Let darkness kill the pain
It did before, it will again
But I am here to disabuse you
Of that notion, of that cure
And my kindness might feel cruel
Because it’s new to you and I will….

Chorus
Heal You, separate reality from myth
Heal you, be your rock, erase your sins
Heal you, starve the loss, and feed the wins
Heal you, heal you…

Bridge
I know it’s hard to surrender
It’s hard to be helped
But sometimes you have to accept
That you can’t fix yourself

Chorus
Heal You, separate reality from myth
Heal you, be your rock, erase your sins
Heal you, starve the loss, and feed the wins
Heal you, heal you…

Heal You

Alone is a state of mind.  I love being alone at the piano or taking walks.  It is a time for spiritual renewal and a way to connect with our body and mind.  I am happiest when I am with people I love, sharing, laughing, and partaking in meaningful conversations.  The otherside is loneliness...sadness, feeling unloved, grief, isolation, pain, sickness, and depression.  For many, myself included, music is the miracle in our lives that keeps us from giving in to the otherside.

Alone

RPR08_71

Happy PIano Day!  (the 88th day of the year 03/28/2024)

This is a piano instrumental version of Ren and Chinchilla's "How to Be Me".  The original song is here: https://soundcloud.com/renmakesmusic/how-to-be-me-feat-chinchilla

The original has sparse instrumentation (simple strummed guitar chords and minimalist cello), but the added complexity of Ren and Chinchilla's codominant vocals make for a rich harmonic tapestry and a stimulating challenge to arrange a piano instrumental version.  For instance, one aspect of the song that I love is the use of the harmonic minor in a way that spans both a haunting classical (almost Chopinesque) sound as well as a soulful Jazz sound.  The raison d'etre of the harmonic minor is the V - i resolution. In early takes I settled on extending some of the V - i resolutions using a dom7flat9, which seemed to enhance the haunting classical feel and simultaneously felt in line with Ren's love of diminished chords (e.g., the diminished arpeggio in the Intro of "Hi Ren" which is arguably in fact a dom7flat9).  But then when listening back I noticed that in some places this chord extension did not mesh with the vocal harmonies and a dom7sharp9 a.k.a. the "Jimi Hendrix chord" sounded better).  This is just one example of the intricacies of jamming along with Ren's music.

Part of my motivation for posting this piano arrangement was the idea that Ren's music has enough complexity to stand on its own as instrumental music.  I was delighted when, later that day, Ren posted his first piano instrumental on youtube, a beautiful piece of modern classical music https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqq3VcwPGseErHUa0-xLInQ

Here are the youtube channels for Ren:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@RenMakesMusic

...and Chinchilla:
www.youtube.com/@chinchilla_music

How to Be Me (piano arrangement)

It's cool... they do Robot stuff like drink n smoke cigars n shoot tommy guns...

My Robot Joined A Gang

The Fade Out

art work:
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%82%A4%E3%82%A2#/media/%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%82%A4%E3%83%AB:Hermes_Maia_Staatliche_Antikensammlungen_2304.jpg

Maia

Classical composition by Rachel Nusbaumer
To buy the whole album : https://rachelnusbaumer.bandcamp.com/album/baroquissima

Conversazione tra allegorie

Rachel Nusbaumer

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