#48, Green Summer Piano Solo

Diamond Head, Oahu, Hawaii, May ‘08, artistic view.


I May Be A Robot, Waikiki, Hawaii, May ‘08, artistic view.

So I am finally done with a piano solo, which I decided to call Green Summer. Actually it was written before a Good Morning piece, but only finished in the last two days. I think it sounds quite good, and I hope to get some positive comments from you. Why is it called like that? Well, when I look through my windows, I see everything mostly green; trees, grass, plants, and kids wearing green clothes. And it is much warmer because the summer arrived. Now you know how I ended up with this title, although I must say that till this morning it actually was called something else! I do have a "bigger" version with the orchestra also finished, but decided to release the solo piece first. The other version may end up on my next video, I suppose. Enjoy it!


Green Summer, Santa Clara, California, May-June ‘08, Piano Solo, Composed by Vatsek.

Lunch: Almost vegetarian, with small pieces of chicken, iced tea, at Fresh Choice, http://www.freshchoice.com.

Reading a Book: Lonzell Watson, Final Cut Pro 6, For Digital Video Editors Only, http://www.wiley.com, with DVD, ISBN 978-0-470-22450-2, purchased at Barnes & Noble http://www.barnesandnoble.com.

Financial Magazine: Barron’s, http://www.barrons.com, Dow Jones & Company, Inc. Do we know when things are finally going to turn up?

#26, Music for Untitled

Need More Light, Santa Clara, California, September ‘07, artistic view.

Not long time ago I bought my first music mp3 files from Amazon.com, and downloaded them. Those were Justin Timberlake’s What Goes Around…/…Comes Around and My Love. The Amazon.com transaction was smooth, no issues, song descriptions are clear, reviews usually useful, and the search is also working fine. And most important, no DRM. In the past I bought something from Apple but the DRM pretty much prevented it from listening to it in any reasonable way. Things have changed since then, I know, but I did not go back yet.
Spent some time going over Sarah McLachlan’s I Will Remember You sheet music, pp. 149-53, while drinking coffee and eating fried chicken strips and rice pilaf dinner at a restaurant one late evening. Have to conclude that the piano part is relatively simple. If I could only sing like her! Regular, not decaf, in case you wonder.
Replied to email from Jewel, not private though. I am officially entered into a T-shirt drawing contest now promoting her new single. Hope I get the right size!
The next video for YouTube has no title yet, and only some vague ideas about the subject. The music is being written, three pieces finished, one more today, then intro and coda in the next two days or so. Now I am breaking my own rule about not talking about something not yet released!

For breakfast: cooked edamame, Japanese wakame seaweed salad with sesame seeds, roasted eel, multi-grain bread, hot jasmine tea. Yummy!
And a quick look at Barron’s financial pages and Yahoo finance. Gold went down so much in the last few days.

Sheet music: Pop/Rock Piano Hits for Dummies by Robbie Gennet, a Hal Leonard book, ISBN: 1-4234-0775-X, http://www.halleonard.com.

CD listening to: Amarantine by Enya, http://www.repriserecords.com, using Audacity.

Jewel’s web site: http://www.jeweljk.com
Barron’s web site: http://www.barrons.com