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Thank you. The piano is 110 years old and I tune every six months and don't want to pay for more than that. I post tunes anyway even if it's starting to drift. Maybe I just hit a wrong note too? I'm no pro.

@@rickrocketts183 , 100 y.o. piano sounds very special. I’ve never had such an experience. I play the piano a bit, after graduating from musical school🎹 . Probably it was the wrong note, right. What are your dogs’ favourite pieces? What do they say?🐕

@@EnglishInLifeWithKatewell, tough to say for sure but the white one definitely got fired up in At Last and Oh Happy Day. Probably a couple others too but I can’t recall exactly. Maybe Blueberry Hill she messed with my left hand in the beginning. Sometimes she wants a bunch of pets when I’m playing.

Thank you!

Haha, if only!

Glad you liked it. And yes, it falls out of tune. The piano was built in 1915 and I pay for a tuning every 6 months. Since I play it continuously, some notes start to stick out near the next tuning.

Thank you! I got the arrangement from Katherine Cordova. The full arrangement is a suite with 4 pieces, and she plays them all in one take, no obvious errors. Pretty impressive, you may want to see it.

@@rickrocketts183 thank you, sir! :)

And so funny how your white dog barks at then end 🙂

I know! She gets all fired up sometimes.

Hey thanks, that’s a great compliment. The white dog acts up in a bunch of my videos. The other dog sleeps. Check out Oh Happy Day as an example.

@@rickrocketts183 You're welcome. And thanks, I'll check it out!

Thank you! Are you working on this same arrangement by Katherine Cordova or another one?

Thanks! I listened to a few recordings but didn’t realize that the arrangement i have is pretty faithful to the one you just pointed out. I just figured the arranger wrote a solo inspired by Evans. So i see what you mean, he def played it more laid back. I was just interpreting notes on the page and trying to make the whole thing flow from straight to swing back to straight and played it a lot of ways until i generally settled on that way. I’d say I would have approached it differently if I’d heard that recording first though.

Congratulations!

Thanks!

Hey thanks, that’s super nice of you to say.

I appreciate your kind words.

Thanks! See you next week.

Thanks! It’s a great tune.

Thanks!

Hey thanks!

About 40 years ago i took classical lessons for 10 years, then played only sporadically then next 10, then almost zero until early 2022 when i noticed how many great blues and jazz teachers are on youtube. So since then i probably play an average of 2 hours day focused mainly on learning how to improvise while always keeping a few tunes i’m learning in rotation. How about you? Do you play?

Thanks!

Si, pero ella es una perro muy buena.

It definitely took a lot of practice. The toughest part for me was the large leaps with the left hand. Usually I don’t look at my hands reading music, but i found i that part to be difficult enough i actually had to memorize it so i could look at my hands to accurately make those leaps. You’ll get there!

Thanks! I’ve got a few other tunes where the dogs act up. I’ll have to look up where the other Beethoven themes show up.

@@rickrocketts183 Great playing- I am learning this one! How do Beethoven's themes factor in? Curious to know!

@@saumyabhargava2854 Thank you! Are you doing the same Katherine Cordova arrangement? For the Beethoven reference, listen to about the last 90 seconds (depending on the speed of the performer) of the first movement of Beethoven's Pathetique Sonata and you'll hear it in there. Nearly identical. I actually recommend listening to the whole sonata. I learned it as kid and have probably played it a few hundred times. One of my favorites.

@@rickrocketts183 Oh I see! Very cool. I am not sure if I am playing that arrangement specifically, where did you find the music sheet?

Thank you! It is weird he didn’t get more grief for stealing like 1/3 of the tune

@@rickrocketts183 Yep true. But he did make a new piece which is maybe less complex but enjoyable as well and he made me discover the Beethoven piece. He also made me enjoy your version. So All in all we arent loosing here 😄

​@@willyp249 What is the Beethoven song called?

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I know! Pretty laid back existence.

Thank you! Having dogs helps.

Thanks!

Thank you!

I was waiting for the other dog to join in on the second take...

It’s always more like how many times did I play it than how long, but usually takes 2-4 weeks to get a piece I’d say. Are you thinking of working on that one?

Christian Fuchs. He has an excellent CZcams channel of this kind of stuff. I try to remember to always credit the arranger in the description and hopefully don’t forget

Thank you!

Thanks! Yeah nothing subtle about that one

Thank you!

Wow that’s a cool way to put it

Thank you! If you look at the bottom of the screen, one of the dogs has their tail in the frame too, but she didn’t go lay on the bed. That would have improved the vibe a little more too!

Hey thanks! Very kind of you to say.

Thank you, that is about the nicest thing you could say.

Appreciate that!

Thanks Pedro, I thought the same thing! I appreciate your kind words. I plan to post two or three Christmas tunes in the coming weeks, time-permitting.