This is a funky version of Rocky Raccoon (Paul McCartney, John Lennon) played on piano and drums. I tried to sing it too but forgot how the words went. That's why I laughed at the end, because it was so ridiculous how badly I had forgotten the lyrics. I just gave up at that point and ended the song prematurely.

This video is an experiment in direct recording off the vintage Yamaha CP-70 piano, which comes with inductive pickups on all the strings. I am using a separate VCR for recording (not the camcorder tape) so that I can pipe the line-level audio signal directly from the mixing console. I also invited my awesome drummer friend Randy Teresi to participate in the recording. We always have lots of fun playing together. Hope you enjoy this too.

Recorded Feb. 4, 2008 in Davis, CA.

Mark Chang- piano, vocals.
Randy Teresi- drums.

Someday I wish to get some fancier equipment to do multi-camera scenes so that you can see Randy playing the drums and other camera angles.

The Yamaha CP70 stage piano is the same instrument used by many historic rock bands such as U2 (played by "The Edge" Dave Evans), ABBA, Led Zeppelin, Peter Gabriel, Simple Minds, George Duke, Bruce Hornsby, Genesis/Tony Banks, Keane, Stevie Wonder, ELO, Genesis, Boston, Hall and Oates, Journey, Asia, Howard Jones, and many others. It is a grand piano with real hammer action and a steel strung harp, except there is no soundboard under the bridge. A set of magnetic pickups, each similar in function to a humbucker guitar pickup, is used to translate the string vibrations into a stereo audio signal with excellent gain-before-feedback characteristics and high fidelity sound.

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