Sample performance

[✪alec in france]

Hi Alec

Wow... If that's a quick take, well it all sounded very professional.

Thanks for the kind words Barrie.

This was actually the first time we'd tried the song - after a couple of runs through somehow it all came together. 

It's not often that happens (sadly!).

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@alec (& Alex)

You master the piano like a pianist - I'm not so lucky, but I think like a pianist when I play.
Your friend's voice fits very well with this type of music, and very few manage to "hit the tone a little skewed" as she does.

Professionally done by both.  :cool: :heart:

Many thanks Chello, glad you enjoyed it.

I started on piano when I was 7 (no, Queen Victoria wasn't quite still alive then ;) ) but it's only in the last 8 or 10 years that I've been improvising from fakebook chords on keys. I often wonder where the infill "twiddly bits" come from. Alex sometimes gets annoyed because they're never the same twice. Maybe that should be my motto?

You're right - the playing technique on keyboards (and the way we have to think when playing) changes a lot between instruments. I find the 'feel' of playing (say) tenor sax is completely different from piano - and organ is different again, although for all of them it's the same keys we are pressing. 

I would love to develop a better 'impression' of jazz violin but it's not easy. A violinist has a greater range of notes in easy reach by changing strings. It's very hard to do a big jump on the keyboard smoothly.