I had my lesson with Ken Healy this
afternoon. After completing my latest attempt at God Rest ye Merry
Gentlemen out of my Level 2 Primer Book. Kendell, encouraged by
all the kind things everyone said about his last contribution, agreed to record
his interpretation of the same melody. Needless to say, 95% of the
notes were not on the sheet music. Same routine as last time. Two
minutes to play around with an arrangement, two and a half minutes to record a
single take and out the door to the next lesson. The wonderful result is
attached.
I asked him about the midi files that sourced the
CD my wife purchased. He purchased a production run of 500, which sold out
in a heartbeat. Says he should've gone for 1,000. The source
material for the entire CD is Midi. He said he would upload some of the
midi files used for a few of the pieces, but the finished product goes
way beyond the XG superset of General midi, with special string and voice
sampling sets, etc. and can't be completely reproduced on a
disklavier without a lot of special external sound gear.
Let Ken know what you think of this piece.
He's a busy guy and we might need to nudge him a bit to get him to unlock some
more of his midis.
Enjoy.
Todd Muncy
disklavier-owner@...
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