I always prefer my own playing to anyone else's.-Lucy Honeychurch, A Room with a View
(I almost never cite my subject quotes, but I don't want people to think I'm that high on myself. Just a little. And besides, I agree with the sentiment, I do prefer my own playing, especially when I'm alone. I don't like performing for people that much, just myself.)
My brain's somewhat fuzzy. I just spent about an hour messing around on the piano. Pulled out some books I hadn't touched in, literally, years. I've got a cheery little version of "The Rainbow Connection" and I even opened some of the Disney books. iheartschnickle and I spent a lot of our high school time in front of the Baldwin Acrosonic upright at my parents', going through books and singing. Her sense of key was always much stronger than my own. I developed a nice enough voice in high school, but smoking and inattention killed what little potential I might have had.
The Phantom of the Opera book has some spectacular arrangements. I can play through "Music of the Night," "All I Ask of You," "Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again" pretty easily-they've been in my fingers for over a decade, after all. I kind of want to work up "Point of No Return." The starting page is just after the last on "Wishing" and I always played through the first few bars. I love the discordance. Unfortunately, I'm not familiar enough with the chords to play it remotely up to speed, and there's a lot of crazy double flats (who the hell uses C-flat minor?) that really slow me down. Hence, the desire to work it up a bit.
How much would Schumacher's version of Phantom have sucked if Katie Holmes had won that part? She's got a sweet enough voice but she'd have had to train the hell out of herself to tackle Christine Daae. Emmy Rossum embodied that role. Wasn't she totally sexy in the "Point of No Return" scene?
I might have to watch that today. I love that movie-except for Minnie Driver. She really bothers me.
It's also totally weird to type after playing for so long.
My brain's somewhat fuzzy. I just spent about an hour messing around on the piano. Pulled out some books I hadn't touched in, literally, years. I've got a cheery little version of "The Rainbow Connection" and I even opened some of the Disney books. iheartschnickle and I spent a lot of our high school time in front of the Baldwin Acrosonic upright at my parents', going through books and singing. Her sense of key was always much stronger than my own. I developed a nice enough voice in high school, but smoking and inattention killed what little potential I might have had.
The Phantom of the Opera book has some spectacular arrangements. I can play through "Music of the Night," "All I Ask of You," "Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again" pretty easily-they've been in my fingers for over a decade, after all. I kind of want to work up "Point of No Return." The starting page is just after the last on "Wishing" and I always played through the first few bars. I love the discordance. Unfortunately, I'm not familiar enough with the chords to play it remotely up to speed, and there's a lot of crazy double flats (who the hell uses C-flat minor?) that really slow me down. Hence, the desire to work it up a bit.
How much would Schumacher's version of Phantom have sucked if Katie Holmes had won that part? She's got a sweet enough voice but she'd have had to train the hell out of herself to tackle Christine Daae. Emmy Rossum embodied that role. Wasn't she totally sexy in the "Point of No Return" scene?
I might have to watch that today. I love that movie-except for Minnie Driver. She really bothers me.
It's also totally weird to type after playing for so long.