Improvisation #10

[milograamans]

Sounds amazing - except forthe very beginning, I'd never know it was improvised! Keep it up man!

[thomandy]

@milograamans Thanks, yeah I guess the beginning is my least favorite as well :)

[douglassmcann]

how daring, a true improvisation, whilst both hands are moving... you are truly a pianist... and so many ideas could be developed thematically from your letting go,,,

beyond the virtuosity, is your sense of music...

bravo encore

douglas

[thomandy]

@douglassmcann Hi :) Thanks, glad you think well of it :)

[DariaVelZiutka]

Bad? Thomas, are you kidding me?! :D It sounds brilliant, I wish I could improvise like this :P

[lepianoman]

Niiiiiiiiiiiiiice!

[Jackal5152000]

wow... Great Piece Thomandy.  Thanks for sharing this....

[casyopea1977]

I think this is lovely and passionate Thomas! So I am glad you posted it. Congratulations :)

[PaulBartonPiano]

I've always liked what you've composed Thomas, you try each time to communicate feeling through your piano music. This improv. is passionate, flowing, expressive and you somehow manage to keep your composers inner-eye focused on melodic/harmonic development at the same time so it holds together -- that's not easy to do spontaneously, but to did it.

I enjoyed it very much.

[thomandy]

@PaulBartonPiano Hi, I didn't see your comment on this video before now :) .. Oh, I didn't know. I'm always a little unsure about these improvisations.. I have to work on my self confidence I guess :) Glad your are helping me get more secure:) And glad you enjoyed it :)

[songpidgeon]

Sounds so pretty! I like it alot!

XxSarah

[RobinHeiberg]

Herregud, mann, dritbra! Sinnsykt imponerende.

[PhillipLWilcher]

What my teacher saw and heard as being very good was my interest in, and my intrigue with the world of sound, whether that sound be a formal structure or not.

I'm touched by your improvisation and exploration of the world of sound as was my teacher all those years ago with me. Thomas, keep studying, keep exploring, keep being open to new sounds. I look forward to hearing more form you in the years ahead. I love that you are searching for your own voice in music. That's golden!Bless you!

[thomandy]

Hi Phillip :) .. Great reading, then Im happy I uploaded it, cause its in many ways that I was trying to tell with this! That one can have fun, making something without being 100% structured. And Im just trying to have a blast when I do this kind of improv, letting me get carried away :) Thanks again!^^

[PhillipLWilcher]

@thomandy You are welcome Thomas. I know from your other compositions you are attentive to structure and form. That's good. The great masters of music, whilst remaining attentive to structure and form also have about their work a feeling of spontaneity and inevitability, the end result being that what they did simply had to be. Similarly in piano playing, the end result must sound spontaneous, inevitable and like an improvisation.

[PhillipLWilcher]

@thomandy What you are actually doing here is throwing caution to the wind, letting your fancy run free and exploring sound. If music is a language, and you have only been playing for 18 months, well, this is much like an 18 month old baby searching out speech patterns which in later years will develop into articulate forms. You are drumming out speech. That's quite something.

[PhillipLWilcher]

@thomandy You are also allowing yourself to simply feel at home at the keyboard and at home in the world of sound. It's often easy to play anything on a table top for example, but when you try to transfer what you are doing at that table top to a keyboard, it's harder. Why? Because the fact that you about to make a sound is sometimes scary and inhibiting. Whether there is a formal structure here or not doens't matter. What matters is you are freeing tings up.

[PhillipLWilcher]

@thomandy Textures : like in painting, where you might have oils or water colour. These are different textures, different washes of colour. In music, you have different washes of sound. The texture of Chopin is vastly different to Debussy or Erik Satie. I have at times tried to create textures in sound which are tissue paper thin - almost not there. Then I've tried to create a sound like velvet or white jade. Words too have texture. You find this especially in poetry.

I hope this makes sense.

[PhillipLWilcher]

@thomandy Instruments have different textures of sound also. The reedy sound of the oboe is different to the open air sound of the flute. In orchestration, these textures and different sounds are mixed and matched to paint a picture in sound, a tapestry of tone colour. Anyway, that's what I meant about textures. Best wishes now....

[PhillipLWilcher]

When I was a little younger than you my great teacher overheard me "improvising" at the keyboard of an enormous Steinway grand. Without me knowing, he crept behind me a listened intently, not so much for any structured work, but to the textures and types of sound I was trying to create - to the "hint" of what might come in the years to follow. When I finished, he patted me on the head and gave me a wink and said : very good!

[PhillipLWilcher]

Dear Thomas : An improvisation essentially is something which happens in the moment : the idea of the thing and the thing itself happening simultaneously. What I hear here is a young man (you!), who is basically self taught, who has only been writing music since when he got his piano on 15 April 2008, being bold enough to explore the world of sound and canvas the entire length of the keyboard in doing so.

[BachScholar]

Very nice and interesting. I can't believe how many others have Improvistion No. 10!

[thomandy]

Thanks! Yeah, I saw this to :) I guess 10 is a lucky improv. number!:)

[koubache]

Very good !

[Anavyia]

It`s really beautiful, nice and some drama too I love it, thank you very much.

Yvana

[Cabrito20]

genius

[bencze1]

wow, pretty cool

[judyesther]

It sounds very good.

Great Performance.

I enjoyed it.5*

[BocaFriend]

Of particular resonance for those of us who saw you in your first six months of piano playing! You've come so far in a comparatively short period, Thomas! Cheers, ~Terry

[thomandy]

Thanks, you have always been a great support and source of motivation for me!:)

[WarHeat2]

Pure skill~! But how can you see through the dark? It's so dark!

[thomandy]

Tnx :) Well I dont really need to see the piano clearly when I play, as long as there is some light on it so I got overall image on how it looks :) If its totally dark I cant play it :p hehe

[thomandy]

Tnx :) I guess Im a little unsure about it case I feel It lack a clear melody! :) Hopefully one day I can create a improvisation that is as technically demanding, but with even more control over different aspects :)

[iFlauto]

Absolutely beautiful :) I doubt you can play anything bad. I'm sure you could make a lot of money making piano CD's and such.

[thomandy]

Hi :) Thank you, very nice to hear!:)

[UsKciTo]

WOah it was awesome... Bad vid quiality tho 8( too dark

[thomandy]

Thanks! Yeah, its easy for me to just put the camera on the desk since most of my improves is messed up in some way, rather than overhead view which requires some fixing! :p .. hehe