Tonight I was practising Piano from some sheet music I am working on. Old Cecil can sadly no longer be tuned, so I am mostly playing my new Casio Privia Digital Piano now. The keys haven't the light touch that Cecil's have, so this is taking some getting used to.
Despite this new piano being more of a machine than Cecil is, I am bonding with it- it has a sweetness to it, and its string sound is great for practising versions of Symphonies.
As I finished the sheet music, my fingers started to find a melody in Phrygian mode (a mode of C major); he was there again- was he giving me this melody or helping me find it? I am unsure..but this melody I know. It is not a melody that I have heard before; that is, it is not part of a piece that is well known...but yet it exists.
I have heard it, long ago...hazy images started to float into my mind and I could hear the melody grow. I instinctively knew what notes were right, and what were not, as I noodled about.
It has a medieval feel to it.
I shall be revisiting this melody again another night and seeing where it takes me, and noting it down.
Despite this new piano being more of a machine than Cecil is, I am bonding with it- it has a sweetness to it, and its string sound is great for practising versions of Symphonies.
As I finished the sheet music, my fingers started to find a melody in Phrygian mode (a mode of C major); he was there again- was he giving me this melody or helping me find it? I am unsure..but this melody I know. It is not a melody that I have heard before; that is, it is not part of a piece that is well known...but yet it exists.
I have heard it, long ago...hazy images started to float into my mind and I could hear the melody grow. I instinctively knew what notes were right, and what were not, as I noodled about.
It has a medieval feel to it.
I shall be revisiting this melody again another night and seeing where it takes me, and noting it down.