Moonlight Serenade (Glenn Miller)

composed by Glenn Miller, featured in "The Glenn Miller Story"

Category:

Music

Tags:

• moonlight
• serenade
• glenn
• miller
• piano
• lyncisAt

[AgroDuckDespenser]

In my opinion as long as you like what you're playing and how you're playing then stick with it. I learned the first movement of moonlight sonata, then I just started playing with it because I felt some parts should be played faster or slower or harder or softer. It may have been written one way but that is what remixes and covers are for.

[lyncisAt]

@AgroDuckDespenser hey there - thank you for that comment! I recorded a bunch of vids about 3 years year ago - in a row! without any preparation...

Just did some covers, I never tryed to play them exact as the origin songs! So i recorded my own interpretations - like you do, :)

Maybe you would like to watch my Moonlight Sonata(1st movement)

youtube.com/watch?v=n6Dr6Q0p36­0

And it would be amazin if you could post your own version to my video too!

Best Greetings from Vienna

[MusicallyDetermined]

I've listened to it again, and I think you need some yellow tape around that piano. After that bridge, it is definitely a crime scene! Glen Miller called from the bottom of the English Channel to say he never wrote that song. His widow divorced him posthumously, and his agent left him for Bunny Berigan. Ta-boomf. Keep practicing. Your mother loves ya, and I do too. Just make my next drink a double, straight up!

[lyncisAt]

His name is "Glenn"! ;)

[spunkyspam]

perhaps don't press the pedal too much, it makes the notes too blurred and it makes them touch the other keys which creates an eerie feeling and not as clear. Don't rush it too. :) What you do with the tempo is good, but consider the dynamics as well to emphasise that change.

[lyncisAt]

well, thank you for your explicit advices... :) maybe you can post us a video of you playing it that way you would express it. that would be great :)

[sotelomuniz]

SLOW IT DOWN, YOURE NOT PLAYING IT GOOD,

YOU MUST LISTEN THE ORIGINAL.

YOUR VERSION SUNDS LIKE CRAP

BUT ITS OK YOU TRIED :p

[GingersnapCookys]

I imagine this would be a lot more better if you did it slower and made the notes linger =D

[Mr0Piano0]

please slow down and put your soul in to it...

this is just a compliment

[amazingbrass]

Stop stomping on the beat. Relax, slow down, and feel the rythym....play AFTER each pump of the pulse

[darthrebelpenguin]

I can see what you're getting at, but its not stylistically correct for the tune. Its a 40's ballad, it should be laid back, almost on the verge of dragging but really not in a way. Also, that quarter note thing you were doing in the left hand was very white. Just watch the original, and you'll get a better idea of what I'm trying to say.

[OJungell]

I love it! :D Do you have the notation? :)

[addnamehere]

Fuck these bitches, I think it's great.

[Reinocerous25]

yeah this sounds like the part in the movie where the other guy made a cabaret arrangement of it that Glenn hated.

[mickypoo4622]

Wow, have your piano tuned! And, as others have also noticed, way too fast. A very hard piece to transfer from the big band sound to just a piano. I applaud you for attempting that. If you want to capture the original style more effectively, just listen to a band playing this and try to emulate it more realistically. Slow, gentle chords in the left hand and a lilting melody in the right. Don't rush it and you'll find it easier to play more authenitically.

[FishcakeChini]

woops I didn't mean to thumbs down that... my mouse is gay. But I agree, slow the tempo down