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Original - 僕の日(boku no hi) philipawalker 1,373 views I made an 'anime opening' song type song! I have no idea what the plot of this anime would be, but it would probably be lighthearted, since the music sounds happy. Also the...
Kapustin Jazz Concert Etude "Pastoral" Improv - Sunset Pasture philipawalker 1,557 views Aha, so I know this isn't even a full video, but it's more of a "I'm not dead" statement :P This is a tiny tiny improv on the melody of a piece that I fell in love with cal...
Lucky is awesome philipawalker 1,725 views Funny video of my dog. He looks so weird at this angle. My favorite part is 0:40-0:42 with the "ding" sound. And at the very end xD Taken with my phone ^^" Song: "Barcaro...
Sora Iro Days - Piano Solo philipawalker 5,642 views Kick reason to the curb and surpass the impossible! Sora Iro days is the opening from an adrenaline filled, over the top anime known as Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. After wa...
Canon in D Piano Rock Improv philipawalker 15,349 views Aha, I haven't had a new video in quite a while ^^" Quite a few people have asked for something like this since I first started putting up these videos, so I thought I'd f...
秒速５センチメートル (5 centimeters per second) Byousoku 5cm Piano Compilation philipawalker 29,917 views These pieces are from my favorite anime of all time...Byousoku 5cm (5 centimeters per second). This is a short film, about an hour long. It has breathtaking art work and be...
Touhou - Night of Nights Piano Solo philipawalker 85,691 views SHEET MUSIC: This is not final...I've just been to lazy to finish it...sorry for the huge delay everyone ^^" http://www.mediafire.com/?p03png857jm03oq Yay the house was fi...
Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu - God Knows Piano Solo philipawalker 15,293 views GRRR. TOO MANY MISTAKES. I'm not sure when the house will be quiet again...so I have to post something while I can, even if there are mistakes D: Anyways! After the rece...
Black Key Etude philipawalker 3,961 views First of all...sorry for not posting in so long!!! I will begin posting a ton now...many new stuffs to post over the summer xD...next will probably be...La Campanella O_O ...
Elfen Lied - Lilium Piano Solo Arrangement philipawalker 32,652 views I really loved this song when I heard it, and I couldn't resist arranging a piano solo version ^^ This does not quite follow the opening version, and doesn't follow the ...

About philipawalker

I"M STARTING A PIANO BLOG! XD
http://philipawalker.wordpress.com/

Sorry for the lack of new videos. I currently have no video camera T-T
My bro has one because he ran away with our regular camera (with video recording) and is away at college xD
Earliest I'll have new videos is most likely may D:

Here is his electric guitar cover of Nami Tamaki's Brightdown:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SnOXZ8tbnA

Hi, I'm Philip Walker - I'm a musician and my instrument is the piano ^^

Personal Quote:
"When a person reads, that person becomes a musician of literature, playing the piece upon the instrument of his or her own imagination, expressing it through the dynamics and articulation of emotion and experience"

What is my forte? Piano.

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Apr 28, 2007

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For those of you who are wondering, I'm half Korean, half Caucasian.
I enjoy playing the piano, drawing, and many other things. Just in case anyone was interested about how I came to love playing the piano, I wrote an English essay about my journey as a musician and it pretty much describes me. Here it is:

Work and Play

I have been playing the piano for eight years and I still play. The piano interested me ever since I was a child. How the simple pressing of a key could make sound; how the combination of keys could create music; how music could be the ultimate form of expression.

I found the piano particularly interesting because, unlike many other instruments, many notes could be played at once. This meant that a piece arranged for multiple instruments could be played by a single person. The idea that it was possible to play almost any piece I heard, pieces I knew, pieces I enjoyed, was appealing to me. I soon began to take lessons, inspired to learn more about playing piano. As my knowledge in piano playing grew, so did my passion for music. Lessons were opportunities to make my music more complex, more sophisticated, more articulate, more meaningful. From my lessons I learned pieces such as Pachelbel's Canon and Für Elise. I enjoyed them, I recognized them, and I could make them my own. Music was fun and was a way to express myself that words cannot describe.

After a few years, as the difficulty of the pieces grew, and my recognition of the pieces faded (since I did not listen to classical music), my interest in piano began to disappear. Each key was nothing more than a faint whisper; each piece was nothing more than an ancient chant; music was a lost language, its meaning long forgotten, obscured by time.

Music seemed like a chore. My parents had suggested that I stop taking lessons because I did not practice enough (0-20 minutes a day) to get anything out of the lessons. Even though my parents urged me to either practice more or quit lessons, I did neither one. Of course, I did not want to purposely disobey them, I just couldn't play anymore. I would make excuses to get away from piano practice, "I have to do homework" or "I want to eat something first" (and then go somewhere else as soon as I finished). I wanted to quit, I wanted to stop practicing, stop working, but something wouldn't let me quit, I couldn't, I wouldn't.

I kept taking lessons. My teacher taught me where to grow and fade, where to lift and drop my arm weight on the keys, how to phrase almost every measure to make the piece interesting. I didn't think about expression or what I was doing, I just did what my teacher told me to do. There was no emotion, only artificial action that I inserted into the pieces. The music was not my own. My sound was mechanical. Music was a chore.

When I went to high school, one of the students in the same orchestra class as me introduced me to sheet music. I could find virtually any piece on the internet, print it, and play it. At this point, the one thing that caused me to play piano when I was a child leapt back at me. I was excited because I once again remembered that pieces I knew and loved could be played on the piano. I began to play music that I knew, music that I enjoyed, music that wasn't bound by practicing time or judges in competitions. I played more and more every day to the point where my parents, who had encouraged me to practice more piano, actually began to encourage me to play less.

Although I found my interest in music, I hadn't found my own heart for the pieces I played. I had forgotten how to put my own expression, my own emotion into what I played. I decided to teach myself how to play a classical song called Fantasie Impromptu by Chopin, a piece that I wanted to learn, that I could express in my own way. As I played through the piece, I put my own emotion into what I played. I began to learn more pieces that I enjoyed. As I played a variety of different pieces, I began to realize through which pieces I could truly express myself; pieces which give music such a powerful influence, such an unmatchable method of expression. I learned that the pieces that have the ability to reveal my entirety through music are pieces which I play not to impress others, pieces I play not to compete, pieces I play not because someone wants me to; but pieces that I want to play, pieces I enjoy, pieces that are meant to be beautiful and full of expression, pieces that are meant to be played, pieces that are meant to create music. I found that it is in those pieces that expression can be found in the most pure form. I have been playing the piano for eight years and I still play.

I still play.

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I always listen to a piece that's been requested, but whether or not I play it depends on how much I like it xD

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