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Post by Thomas Eversole on Sept 27, 2019 7:49:51 GMT -6
Eh, this is basically a very early Christmas present from my parents, and I love it. It needs tuned, and I got that scheduled for next Friday. (the tuners recommended the piano reside in its new home (my office) for a week before being tuned, so the inside strings can get used to the environment) One of my plans for this.... make a YouTube channel with some piano playing - and I fully intend on playing it to drum tracks. I won't start on this until after this newest Orationem is done though... but it sounds like fun and I'm looking forward to it!!! I'm very rusty though. I haven't played a weighted-keys full-sized piano for YEEEEEEAAAAARRRRSSS..... so, I'm missing keys like crazy right now. Practice practice practice should fix that though. I'll get it figured out.
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Post by Thomas Eversole on Oct 4, 2019 13:12:06 GMT -6
The piano is now tuned. I wasn't going to dive into this until after I finish the new Orationem, but I can still do a test. :B Everything could change - this is only a test. Feedback could also effect changes. When I'm ready to do this for real, there will be a channel, just for this.
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Post by nocturnaliridescence on Oct 5, 2019 19:05:03 GMT -6
I dig it! You could be the next Lidian Forest or something!
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Post by Thomas Eversole on Dec 21, 2019 15:20:22 GMT -6
"Why do I even bother" is something I've been asking myself the past few days. Ok, I've been playing this piano a lot. I really enjoy it. I'd also say.... I notice that I'm improving. The 'why bother' isn't to playing - no way - that statement, is to recording this piano. Don't get me wrong, the Piano&Drums stuff I've been doing, I like.... its fun.... but then as I go to finish writing a my "4th song" on piano, and I record it with my phone, text-to-speech quality, and dare I say.... I like it even better presented this way? (opposed to produced, mixed, etc. like I did with Drums&Piano videos) eversoul.net/Piano4.mp3This sounds antiqued in a way that a "good recording" could never capture. You can hear me sliding on the bench to reach the notes, pedal and other clicks, perhaps breathing out (there's other white noise captured that I don't know what it is) all this (in my opinion) adds to the recording, rather than taking away from it. Why do I even bother the setup, for video, drums, recording, syncing.... ...when I'm perhaps even more satisfied with a low-fidelity recording on a cell phone? I certainly don't do it for the views. What, 30 people may ever watch any of those? The same could be said for this recording linked in this post... but as far as what I want and what I'm satisfied with, I'm feeling a bit like its a jagged line. Like, would you put more work into something you actually like less?
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Post by nocturnaliridescence on Dec 21, 2019 16:33:15 GMT -6
I get an error when I try to play it. I also tried downloading it and playing it in another program - I could download it but couldn't play it. Oddly, it briefly brings up a (mostly white?) icon in the system tray when I try to play it.
In general I can see what you mean though, sometimes a lo-fi sound really is just better!
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Post by Thomas Eversole on Dec 21, 2019 20:05:00 GMT -6
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Post by nocturnaliridescence on Dec 21, 2019 21:21:08 GMT -6
That link works! It does sound a bit more "antiquated". Personally it doesn't really matter to me if you use this simpler recording method or use the more complex one, they both sound good imo. Incidentally, VLC Media Player has a traffic cone icon, and apparently there's an easter egg where during part of December, there's a Santa hat on the cone, lol.
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Post by Borndead on Dec 21, 2019 21:52:26 GMT -6
Wow, so beautiful and haunting. Really like the dreamy sound, I can imagine some chanting going on in the distance or some raw but melodic riffs over it.
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Post by thevociferator on Jan 4, 2020 11:27:02 GMT -6
Wow you're really good on piano! I love the lofi sound I think you can stick with it. I can totally see this as a great way to make intro/interlude/outro tracks for Orationem. Or you can totally just write a demo of just piano and maybe program some atmospheric synth the sounds and send it to some dungeon synth labels. I'd buy a tape of that.
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Post by Thomas Eversole on Jan 4, 2020 14:14:25 GMT -6
Thanks Ben! I got a different recorder to use. What I had before had this m4a/mp3 ambiguity and this one don't. Also, this recorder I can change the kHz. Stereo 44kHz is "CD quality", and I'm really digging the antiquated "Mono 11kHz" quality. I've been recently experiencing with "timings". Piano is a percussion instrument after all. I wish I could properly convey how challenging this is to play. Like if pinky is 5 and thumb is 1, it goes from 5 to 1 and back both hands, in this "pattern". eversoul.net/Piano_3.mp3Here's the same pattern, played an octave lower, as chords. Much easier (quite simple) to play as chords compared to juggling individual fingers. eversoul.net/Piano_3a.mp3I feel like the past 20 years, I've spent way more time playing guitar than I have piano. That being said, the challenges I'm encountering (which I really like) actually make guitar playing feel like a 1 handed instrument in comparison. I would like to "do something" with this. I'm just not sure what. ...but I'm having quite a blast growing my skills and finding new melodies on this beast!
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Post by Thomas Eversole on Jan 22, 2020 10:14:35 GMT -6
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