10.31.2011- Fourth Variation

You know, when you think about it, my Google project hasn't changed all that much.
I went from "pianifying" random songs to putting them together in an arrangement to arranging Jingle Bells. So, technically, I'm still "pianifying" a song and compiling an arrangement. Just saying.

So since I had no real inspiration to compose, only half of the fourth variation was completed today. Considering the severe shortage of pianos and keyboards available to everyone in need of one and that I did manage to rehearse the composed majority of the piece, I think this is a commendable accomplishment.

On another subject, there really are a lot of ways you can twist Jingle Bells.


Happy Halloween!

10.30.2011- Rethinking... again...

So I was sitting at my piano playing random notes because I had gotten bored of rehearsing Chopin's Etude in A Flat (no surprise there). A few notes later, maybe because the weather was typically dismal and I was wearing my red shirt with a Christmas tree design, I realized that what I was playing sounded faintly like Jingle Bells.

So this is how this second rethinking came about: Variations on Jingle Bells.
In sort of an obsessive fervor (and ignoring the many pages of APUSH notes still to do), I spent about seven hours composing various versions of Jingle Bells, to be compiled in a single piece. The result: three variations on Jingle Bells, and an opening and end to the compilation.

This time, I'm fairly sure I'm sticking to this idea.

10.19.2011- Rethinking...

Transcribed the piano intro of another song. The actual length of the section is about ten seconds, but it took me half an hour to get it written down =_= The left hand chords are a lot harder to discern than I expected..

Perhaps it'd be a better idea for me to collect little sections of songs into a longer general piece..? So far, I could include bits and pieces of "On the Street," "Hello," "After Love," "100 Years," "A Whole New World," "It's You," (possibly) "Falling Slowly"... and probably more.

Most will need to be transposed to the same key or so that all the pieces fit... and if I credit the original owner, I think I should be able to use piano songs not written by me...?

Aah lots of planning to do >_<

10.05.2011- On The Street

Se7en has officially been placed on an infinitely long hiatus. For now.

On the other hand, most of "On the Street" has been transcribed into piano-score. Up to the first half of the chorus is finished - and obviously, I lack the motivation to complete the entire song.

Change of plans. Sections of songs will be transposed to piano, and put together has a collage (maybe?). Variety, not quantity. That makes sense.

New, updated list of songs:
•"Nothing"- The Script
•"For the First Time"- The Script
•"September"- Daughtry
•"Crash and Burn"- Lifehouse
•"Breathless"- Shayne Ward
•"Love Ya"- SS501
•"Stay"- MBLAQ