So I am somewhere in my second year of formal piano lessons now. I wish that I could find more time to practice, but usually professional and community work take higher precedence, so most of the time I don’t get to do my daily one-hour practice as I would like to. However, at least there is a two-hour time frame every Tuesday evening where my cell phone is turned off, where I have no access to internet and just enjoy exploring music with my piano teacher, and I guess that this is what counter-balances my involvement in Vietnamese community and keeps me sane.
In the past several months, part of my weekly homework is to compose short melodies in different keys. I call those my piano experiments and here are a few of them:
Piano Experiments #6A-6C
Piano Experiments #6 is a series of short 8-bar melodies in the key of F Major. I first composed only Piano Experiment 6A, but my teacher then asked me to come up with a few other variations of the same melody, so I came up with version B and C. You’ll hear that it’s same root melody though.
Piano Experiment 6A
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Piano Experiment 6B
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Piano Experiment 6C
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Memory Lane (aka Piano Experiment #9)
The task for Piano Experiment #9 was devised after I just learned how to play Joe Hisaishi’s “Going Out” from his “Kikujiro no Natsu” album. My piano teacher asked me to come up with a new melody while using the same harmonic chord progression, so you’ll hear the same left hand as “Going Out” but a new right-hand melody (in D Major). My teacher liked this piece a lot and insisted that I need to give it another real name instead of “Piano Experiment #9”, so after consulting some friends, I named it "Memory Lane".
Memory Lane
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