Name: Five Four by Simon Reich
Duration: 4 min 19 s
Description: The piano cloud, a worldwide piano group I am a member of, is currently running an "Odd Time Signature" challenge. Admittedly, I don't use odd time signatures at all, so this was quite a challenge, as it threw me to have an extra beat in each bar!! I chose 5/4 & hence the name Five Four. I love jazz stylings, so I went with that genre on this piece. Enjoy!!

Tickling the ivories and my fancy all at once--beautiful work!

Love the exploration of exotic time signatures--it really unearths beautiful surprises.

wow Simon...your VST Bass lines, or however you've created them  in this are Amazing!  Play on man... ain't it Beautiful. :D

Very groovy. Really nice piece! Love it <3

This is my new piece, "The Breeze". Enjoy :)

The Breeze

The Piano Cloud Winter Landscape Challenge, needed more than musical talent, it required me to ignore my Southern Hemisphere hot surroundings & dig extremely deep to find snow! We have some high mountains in Australia that get snow on their peaks a few months a year, but nothing like you get overseas, so the first time I really saw snow heaped up & falling from the sky in an urban area, was on a visit to my Oma in Germany. For that reason, this sparse piano tune is called "Schnee Gefallen", which just means the snow has fallen. It tries to capture that really quiet sound made by the flakes falling & unlike other weather patterns, it has a very still atmospheric ambience.

Schnee Gefallen

The piano cloud, a worldwide piano group I am a member of, is currently running an "Odd Time Signature" challenge. Admittedly, I don't use odd time signatures at all, so this was quite a challenge, as it threw me to have an extra beat in each bar!! I chose 5/4 & hence the name Five Four. I love jazz stylings, so I went with that genre on this piece. Enjoy!!

Five Four

As I grow older, I start to realise that I've had great life, achieved so many things I thought I would never reach & am really excited about what's still to come. It feels like today is the start of "Forever and a day".

Forever & a Day

Forever And A Day

The worldwide group Piano Soundboard, has issued a challenge for members to compose a tune using the chord progression Dm Am Gm C. Any genre is acceptable as long as these chords are looped over during the complete piece. I chose a Jazz styling & improvised the main piano track, then went back & recorded the upright bass & understate drums. I had a fun time doing this track, so I hope that emotion comes through the music.

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Ben Street(Bass)
Bill Stewart(Drums)


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Since Covid 19 has been around, our state in Australia has been through various lockdowns. Some have lifted, to then be applied again, as numbers unfortunately rose. Since being at home in isolation, the only thing that denotes a difference in my life is Night & Day, otherwise, each day rolls into the next. This piece of music was born of these feelings.

Night & Day

I started off learning piano at around 6 years old, but only realised my ear for music when I could pick out melodies I heard on the radio & from then on I started writing my own music & playing long into the night, to the point where my parents told me to stop so they could go to sleep!
In my teenage years I joined bands & learnt basically on the fly how to work as a group. Once I realised that keyboards were not as portable & able to be played on beaches / around campfires, I taught myself guitar. By adding drums, harmonica & bass to my arsenal, the stage was set for a fully working band to record in my garage. Since setting up my home studio, I love recording a tune each week & especially love collaborating with all the extremely talented musicians on soundcloud. I'm a full time musician, with many different hats in the music community. Including songwriter, composer, live musician & blog writer.

If you are interested in my electronic page, then visit https://soundcloud.com/electro-pup

Check out my blog at http://simon353.wordpress.com/

Five Four

Simon Reich

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