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Goodbye Valentine - 131 bpm - Music to Study to

Goodbye Valentine - 131 bpm - Music to Study to

 

I was out walking in LA's San Fernando Valley and this image was arresting enough to make me blow my target pace - it was the 27th of February and my heart just broke.

I haven't touched the piano since the beginning of the year, I had promised myself I would publish God Knows before I started working on something new, so - this is the first session back.  I'm playing with an old theme, all 7's and 9's and very simple but kinda cool.

Visually I finally get to play with my LIFX bulb - I saw it on Kickstarter last year and thought it might be perfect.  I'm playing with a click at 131 bpm but the light is reacting to the piano in the room - it's not quite where it needs to be yet but I think it's encouraging.

 

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God Knows - Music to Create Flow

God Knows - Music to Create Flow

 

The original title was "Fuck Knows" but then that's not terribly commercial is it! ;-p

The  track was built for the animation - I recorded the core piano and video track in early November 2013 and sent it to SAmi to play with.  I don't know what his process is but the end result always looks amazing.

The funny thing is, nobody actually uses the visuals when they're working, but with YouTube as the primary music distribution channel, you've got to have something cool  for people to look at so that ultimately they might listen to you.

These visuals are from SAmi , they're synced to the music.  If you do chose to watch the video, they're pretty cool!

Thanks SAmi.

 

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SAmi's theme - New Animation

New version of SAm's theme with animation by SAmi Nikki himself!  Looks amazing ;-)

Animation by SAmi Nikki - http://www.sami-nikki.com/ 

 

You can hear this theme pop out at 1:53 in the Sunhat - For SAmi piece - http://youtu.be/K4LO-Wxtc5k - it caught my ear immediately. This is an extended development of the downward progression with some kind of theme extension in the middle - which I really like!

I'll be working on this all month.

...and yes - I know the opening three chords have Dire Straight's Private Investigations all over them... 

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