July 7, 2010

Saw Ringo in concert last night with my son, and I'll never forget it!
Today, practiced mostly the C minor and D minor scales.

July 5, 2010

Working on my scales, mostly. Tomorrow, I'll be seeing Ringo Starr!

July 3, 2010

Worked on first chord inversions for all major chords. Interesting. A lot of work ahead...

July 2, 2010

Worked on 1st inversion of: C, F, G, Bb, Eb, and Ab chords.

July 1, 2010

Back again.... could not stay away.....

New direction that's not so new:
Trying to use some ideas from The Pop Piano Book by Mark Harrison. Worked on second inversion chords for C, F, G.

May 16, 2010

A hard working day at the piano. Working on "Just the Way You Are," with some good results. But the old frustrations kick in while I'm struggling over some past learned stuff...

May 14, 2010

Time to move on to "Just the Way You Are" by Billy Joel. Here is "The Way You Look Tonight." Needs practice, but I'm ready to move on.
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May 10, 2010

Well what do you know.....three practice days in a row.....
Worked on my two tunes.

May 9, 2010

Just taking my time....no rush! Working on my two tunes, and refreshing my D closed voicing.

May 8, 2010

Closed voicings for the three C's, and D major worked on.
Worked on "All the Things You Are" and "The Way You Look Tonight." Adding some closed voicing stuff in there. A great piano day.

May 5, 2010

It was a drag practicing tonight. Spent very little time, very little accomplished, and was too tired to make it work.

May 2, 2002

Working hard on "The Way You Look Tonight" and "All the Things You Are." Reading Kenny Werner's "Effortless Mastery." Finding that my brain can handle only so much while I'm at the piano, so breaks are needed!

May 1, 2010

After a little break from the piano due to the realities of life, I got back today and with a vengence. Worked on "All the Things You Are" and I'm pleasantly surprised at how relatively quickly it got back together. Working on "The Way You Look Tonight," and its sounds nice. Looking forward to the song after that, which will be a little change of pace: Billy Joel's "Just the Way You Are." Have been playing around with the intro to it, and it has the potential to sound really nice. Have been toying around with maybe looking into New Age doodling, but nothing will take the place of me building a repertoire of songs using the Sudnow material. I'll probably be playing on and off throughout the day....

April 21, 2010

Working hard on "The Way You Look Tonight." Getting "in the zone" while playing...
Fm7 = new closed voicing using a bit in the song.

April 19, 2010

Started working on "The Way You Look Tonight," and ordered some sheet-music. Its really quite interesting about how quickly voicing has become, and how the clusters Suds talks about are getting in my hands. At one point Suds says that the problem won't be finding enough time to practice, but the problem will be finding time to do anything else. He's right. Having a good time.