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Vjcvette said:
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I so love this song.

Did you ever wonder where the long piano prelude came from? It's so beautiful, and it was inspired by Alexander Scriabin's Prelude in D-flat, Op. 11 No. 15. He was 23 when he composed it. David Hoffner, the pianist on "Wildfire", is an Emmy-nominated composer and arranger. He took the Scriabin piece and came up with this gorgeous piano intro.

(Lots of other popular music has by inspired by classical.)

 
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VolNExile said:
I so love this song.

Did you ever wonder where the long piano prelude came from? It's so beautiful, and it was inspired by Alexander Scriabin's Prelude in D-flat, Op. 11 No. 15. He was 23 when he composed it. David Hoffner, the pianist on "Wildfire", is an Emmy-nominated composer and arranger. He took the Scriabin piece and came up with this gorgeous piano intro.

(Lots of other popular music has by inspired by classical.)

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I Love that and I Love the piano even though I always just played by ear. My Mother and Father played the piano and I would go buy say a Carol King book
of music, and my Mother would go through and fix if for me so I could play it, by writing the actual letter by the note, but one time when I was probably]
about 18 I asked my Dad to figure out the chords for me on a Joe Cocker song called "Guilty" and my Dad had to listen to the song a few times to figure
out the notes and by the time he got done he was very irritated because the words in that song were not words that you would really want your 18 year
old to be listening too....

My Mother taught me how to play the beginning of Prelude in C Sharp minor

 
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I Love that and I Love the piano even though I always just played by ear. My Mother and Father played the piano and I would go buy say a Carol King book
of music, and my Mother would go through and fix if for me so I could play it, by writing the actual letter by the note, but one time when I was probably]
about 18 I asked my Dad to figure out the chords for me on a Joe Cocker song called "Guilty" and my Dad had to listen to the song a few times to figure
out the notes and by the time he got done he was very irritated because the words in that song were not words that you would really want your 18 year
old to be listening too....

My Mother taught me how to play the beginning of Prelude in C Sharp minor

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I love Rachmaninoff! I have some music books that include his music, and I'll be plugging along, doing my damndest, and then I'll turn the page, and I'm looking at something like this, and saying, Welp, ok, let's see what's ELSE in this book:

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VolNExile said:
I love Rachmaninoff! I have some music books that include his music, and I'll be plugging along, doing my damndest, and then I'll turn the page, and I'm looking at something like this, and saying, Welp, ok, let's see what's ELSE in this book:

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Before I went into the medical record program in college I took a course there in music, and you know how you learn to type in about a week, well I thought
that I could just learn how to read music pretty quick and then I would not have to have my Mother fix it for me, but......it was not that easy and I think that
I almost gave the instructor a heart attack because we had a song to learn I think it was every week and the song was "In the Garden" and so I went home
and learned it and came back to class and we all had our individual keyboards with headphones and when the instructor got to me I started playing and
she was like "Oh no no no" because I was playing it and my fingers were not on the right keys and so on, but one thing was for sure, I could bring in my
Carol King music book and get the instructor to play a song out of there on the baby grand that was in there and even though she looked like a librarian,
she played that music just like Carol King was sitting there and that is what I wanted to do.....in one quarter......Oh well it was fun anyway lol.
 
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I am so impressed that you were able to play different forms of music from just being shown how to play specific songs! It would take me forever to figure how to do that.

I have perfect pitch, but I generally have to read the music before I sing or play it. (I can call out the chords for music someone is playing, based on the melody line, even if I’ve never heard it before, but that’s different.)

My husband is similar to you: he doesn’t read music, but he’s been playing professionally for almost 60 years, and he can transpose music into different keys to accommodate different voices, and he knows the Circle of Fifths, and if you play something or sing something at him, he can work it out. And I can’t do any of that.

I’m amazed at him, and he’s amazed at me, but I think I’m more amazed…
 
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VolNExile said:
I am so impressed that you were able to play different forms of music from just being shown how to play specific songs! It would take me forever to figure how to do that.

I have perfect pitch, but I generally have to read the music before I sing or play it. (I can call out the chords for music someone is playing, based on the melody line, even if I’ve never heard it before, but that’s different.)

My husband is similar to you: he doesn’t read music, but he’s been playing professionally for almost 60 years, and he can transpose music into different keys to accommodate different voices, and he knows the Circle of Fifths, and if you play something or sing something at him, he can work it out. And I can’t do any of that.

I’m amazed at him, and he’s amazed at me, but I think I’m more amazed…
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I wished that I had learned to read music when I was young, but I was like a wild Indian then.......lol....well I always thought that I was part Indian anyway so
that way I am allowed to say that......:D...ok I better hit the hay so I can hit the ground running tomorrow....I get up at 7 lol.
 
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VolNExile said:
We went to the Bridge School concerts every year that I was in Cali. They were magical, including Joan Baez and Kris Kristofferson singing "Okie from Muskogee" once. 🤣 Those kids are precious indeed.

Loving Dave Matthews + Santana
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Yes and then when Orleans played at the school for the blind and one of the students sang the lead.....Oh my Goodness, he is singing about a shooting star and he
has never seen one.....<3
 
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Yes and then when Orleans played at the school for the blind and one of the students sang the lead.....Oh my Goodness, he is singing about a shooting star and he
has never seen one.....<3
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One of our sopranos in Asheville Symphony Chorus is blind. While we're all cursing our music scores, trying to read the notes and lyrics and scribbling all over them, she sings on. I assume someone next to her taps the conductor's beat on her thigh or something.

Stevie Wonder. Ray Charles. Jose Feliciano.

Andrea Bocelli, "popera" singer, born with congenital glaucoma, blind in the left eye, 10% vision in the right, totally blinded in a soccer accident at age 12.

Singing "Nessun Dorma" at Central Park - shifts into Full Tenor Beast Mode at 2:45 and again with the chorus at 3:20
 
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VolNExile said:
One of our sopranos in Asheville Symphony Chorus is blind. While we're all cursing our music scores, trying to read the notes and lyrics and scribbling all over them, she sings on. I assume someone next to her taps the conductor's beat on her thigh or something.

Stevie Wonder. Ray Charles. Jose Feliciano.

Andrea Bocelli, "popera" singer, born with congenital glaucoma, blind in the left eye, 10% vision in the right, totally blinded in a soccer accident at age 12.

Singing "Nessun Dorma" at Central Park - shifts into Full Tenor Beast Mode at 2:45 and again with the chorus at 3:20
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They are all tremendous singers.....but I am very partial to Jose Feliciano....and he appeared on one of my all time favorite shows....because I Loved Freddie Prinze

 
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Vjcvette said:
They are all tremendous singers.....but I am very partial to Jose Feliciano....and he appeared on one of my all time favorite shows....because I Loved Freddie Prince

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I realize that I'm a terrible person, but I always liked his cover of "Light My Fire" more than the Doors' original. His is WAY more sexy, which is sort of the whole point of lighting someone's fire, and all.
 
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