{"id":175121,"date":"2021-10-16T11:56:06","date_gmt":"2021-10-16T10:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=175121"},"modified":"2021-10-16T11:56:06","modified_gmt":"2021-10-16T10:56:06","slug":"a-few-thoughts-on-playing-and-composing-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2021\/10\/16\/a-few-thoughts-on-playing-and-composing-music\/","title":{"rendered":"A few thoughts on playing and composing\u00a0music"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I took myself out for a brief ride in the surround countryside today. It’s all looking wonderful out there. I didn’t take any pictures today though.  Life goes on pretty much the same as ever at the moment. A steady rhythm, week in and week out as the seasons change.<\/p>\n

A few thoughts on playing and composing  music:<\/h5>\n

Weirdly I accidently learnt a Flanagan and Allen song, “Forget me not lane” I was playing through a late 1940s songbook. Original paper published music (piano copy), not a reprint. And played it a couple of times and I have now memorized it. The piano copies were made relatively easy to read so usually not more that 5 note harmony and never anything more than 3 ledger lines above the treble clef. Also most things I hear I can play a version of on Piano almost straight off. I could always do this to an extent but the ability to do it seems to have improved a lot. Violin is of course easy to do as mostly it’s only one note with the odd double stop. Its as if my subconscious does all the work now.  Also with the current collaborations I am having to stretch my music muscles a bit to learn the new material.  It’s still predominantly USA listeners to my online music at present. I think this is because its loosely either rock towards prog and or folk or jazz\/blues influences. Europe tends towards pop\/dance more. A few outliers in the east of europe and on to the far East. Of course the stats only really show listeners with an account in the main so the actual geographical distributions may be a bit skewed.<\/p>\n

I realise that one thing I would like to do again is work with a lyricist. I always have music bubbling up but words not so much. In the 80s I use to get people to send me lyrics (in the post) which I would set to music and send them a cassette tape back. <\/p>\n

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I took myself out for a brief ride in the surround countryside today. It’s all looking wonderful out there. I didn’t take any pictures today though.  Life goes on pretty much the same as ever at the moment. A steady rhythm, week in and week out as the seasons change. A few thoughts on playing … Continue reading A few thoughts on playing and composing\u00a0music<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20,10,3,36,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-delta-ladies","category-diana_stones_songs","category-musings","category-piano-works","category-whatever"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-Jyx","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":175314,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2022\/04\/23\/just-me-playing-the-piano\/","url_meta":{"origin":175121,"position":0},"title":"Just me Playing The Piano","author":"diana Stone","date":"April 23, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Just me Playing The Piano, Yep that's all folks.\u00a0","rel":"","context":"In "Delta Ladies"","block_context":{"text":"Delta Ladies","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/category\/delta-ladies\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":174942,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2021\/05\/11\/can-summer-be-far-away\/","url_meta":{"origin":175121,"position":1},"title":"Can Summer be far away","author":"diana Stone","date":"May 11, 2021","format":"image","excerpt":"","rel":"","context":"In "Delta Ladies"","block_context":{"text":"Delta Ladies","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/category\/delta-ladies\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Diana Stone playing Piano May 2021","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Piano-Diana-Stone-575x1024.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Piano-Diana-Stone-575x1024.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Piano-Diana-Stone-575x1024.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":174890,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2021\/04\/02\/times-tides-wash-us-away-like-pebbles-on-a-beach\/","url_meta":{"origin":175121,"position":2},"title":"Times tides wash us away like pebbles on a beach","author":"diana Stone","date":"April 2, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Sad to say another friend has died. 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