I've finished grading! To express my happiness, here is a favorite piece of mine by Chopin. I think Chopin is my favorite composer for solo piano. He's so diverse and expressive and he makes such a great use of the instrument. All of his pieces have a lot of different colors and voices to them. This one is one of his etudes, which is basically supposed to be a boring finger exercise but in this case it's an exercise in awesome. This particular etude is in Gb Major and is known as the "Black Keys" etude. I like the way it builds around 0:20. Listen for the pentatonic scale around the 1:00 mark. Fun stuff and expresses my current mood.
2 comments:
Hooray! I love the feeling of this piece--almost like one of those old school carnivals.
I love that line "an exercise in awesome" :) What a great clip. I've had a sad lack of piano in my life lately. And a sad lack of singing and giggling through "Murder" from Jekyll and Hyde. I think it's time for you to come home.
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