I thought it would be nice to start the weekend with some virtuoso piano covers of two popular movie themes. Jarrod Radnich plays the themes from Pirates of the Caribbean and Harry Potter like no other…
Enjoy!
Time for another round of Amateur Creativity! Today, I play the beautiful theme song from the French film, Amelie.
The song is called “Comptine d’un autre été”, which translates to something like “Song from another summer”.
I hope you enjoy!
We’ve made it to another Friday!
Today’s Amateur Creativity is a cover of a fun little song from Joshua Radin. It never reached enormous popularity, but for some reason, the tune just stuck in my head after I randomly heard it somewhere.
I also experimented a bit with a different camera perspective. Last time my poor phone was stuck to the ceiling. This time it was fixed to the guitar itself 🙂
Anyway, I hope you enjoy!
Have a fun weekend!
I tried to go a little more pro with this week’s Amateur Creativity. After moaning about the sound quality in my first piano recording two weeks ago, I took a trip to the music store to see if there are any convenient solutions.
Sadly, there were not. But I persevered and dug some old wires out of the cupboard to connect to my little home recording studio that has seen very little action in recent years.
Recording video and sound separately and then putting them together afterwards obviously takes more time. But the resulting quality is worth it!
I also decided to tape my phone to the ceiling to record from a different perspective. Looks pretty cool, I think 🙂
Anyway, I hope you enjoy!
Have a fun weekend!
Today’s little bit of Amateur Creativity is my cover of Yiruma’s “River Flows in You”. It’s one of those great pieces of music that is truly beautiful, but not particularly hard to learn.
That being said, playing it perfectly is very difficult. Professional performing artists are not paid to play 99% of the notes correctly (this is actually pretty easy). They’re paid for that last 1% (the really hard part). I realized this very clearly when recording this video.
But even when played imperfectly, River Flows in You remains a beautiful song 🙂 I hope you enjoy!
Another thing I recognized is the need for some wires to record directly from my piano to my phone. The sound over the headphones is just so much better than the sound over the speakers that was actually recorded.
I’ll commit to taking a trip to the music store to check this out before my next piano recording.
We’ve reached another weekend! That means it’s time for another bit of amateur creativity 🙂
This week you are treated to my rendition of the Oasis classic, Wonderwall. It’s one of the first songs I learned on the guitar and I enjoyed digging it out of the archives 🙂
While practicing this song, I found myself wondering what “wonderwall” actually means. The word means a crush or infatuation. But apparently the writer said that the song is about “an imaginary friend who’s gonna come and save you from yourself“. Some degree of mystique is important for a hit song, I suppose.
The video was shot on a lovely scenic spot close to my flat. It was a beautiful sunny day with no wind, but I forgot that such quiet days mean many flies buzzing around your head. Quite the test in concentration!
Anyway, I hope you enjoy it and I’ll see you tomorrow morning!
