Really enjoying your videos. Glad you decided to start posting again. I am also a pianist and film score fan. How much do you rely on the commercially released sheet music? I have a pretty good collection but some of the piano reductions are better than others and I'm always improvising. The music of John Williams is especially hard to convert to solo piano although the Ewok Parade sounds pretty close to the orchestral version.
Almost always from printed music. The John Williams 90th birthday I had to figure out about half of the themes. This one is from a published version, I just "sweetened" a few things that I thought were missing, like the string flourishes.
Really enjoying your videos. Glad you decided to start posting again. I am also a pianist and film score fan. How much do you rely on the commercially released sheet music? I have a pretty good collection but some of the piano reductions are better than others and I'm always improvising. The music of John Williams is especially hard to convert to solo piano although the Ewok Parade sounds pretty close to the orchestral version.
Almost always from printed music. The John Williams 90th birthday I had to figure out about half of the themes. This one is from a published version, I just "sweetened" a few things that I thought were missing, like the string flourishes.
About time Beethoven got replaced.
In a perfect world, you'd have a bust for every piece you play!