It's my Mother's Birthday Today

My version of this tune is closely based on a solo piano version Russ Conway recorded. He used a honky-tonk piano at EMI's Abbey Road Studios, but I think it sounds better on a properly tuned grand piano.

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Music

Tags:

• mother's
• birthday
• today
• russ
• conway
• mike
• thomson
• piano
• Happy Birthday

[MarcusTomatos]

Hi Mike. Quite agree about the piano for this piece. I've always thought waltz (3.4) time sounded better on a "tuned" piano, as you've just proved. Very nicely played.

Cheers Mark

[honkytonkpiano]

@MarcusTomatos Thanks, Mark!

[HubSwitch]

i would love to play like that one day.

any tips on left hand stride? or links that would help me out on notes and chords?

I listen to Fats Waller quite a lot and love his stuff.

[honkytonkpiano]

@HubSwitch I did actually write out this arrangement for a friend, and would be happy to send you have a copy if you can let me have an e-mail address (send a message with it rather than use a public comment) You might like to have a look at some notes I wrote about playing the back-tenth - they're in the russconway website. As for chords - you have to rely very largely on your ear, and keep trying different chords until you find what you want. I'm a great Fats Waller fan too!

[billfromruss]

The version on Something for mum fulfills al that has ben said.

[HubSwitch]

@honkytonkpiano

that sounds great, however I cant read music score..

I compose my own stuff (on my channel) and wish I could write it to score as the more I compose the more I forget of the ones I have already done! meh!!!

hubswitch @ hotmail . co.uk