Practice Tracks: My Blue Heaven
Barron Ryan
If all goes according to plan, I’ll be ready to record them and eight other tracks by March of next year. Here’s how I’m practicing right now.
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If all goes according to plan, I’ll be ready to record them and eight other tracks by March of next year. Here’s how I’m practicing right now.
Read MoreIn this edition of Practice Tracks, we look at a tune in a more advanced stage of development. Previously, you've heard me practice to get notes under my fingers, but in this case they're already there (for the most part). Now I'm trying to get to the place where playing the tune is second nature.
Read MoreToday you meet my greatest musical challenge yet: Art Tatum's 'Tiger Rag.' A former piano professor suggested a couple years ago that I take a look at it, and it's been giving me fits ever since.
Read MoreI was dogsitting for some friends, the Leifestes, this week, which meant that I got to practice on their piano. And practicing on their piano meant that their Shih Tzu, Buster, would periodically chime in with some music of his own.
Read MoreI'm debuting not one but two new tunes for my Keyboard Confidential concert in Tulsa tomorrow, so today was the day to see if I can actually play them. You get to hear 'On the Sunny Side of the Street' by Jimmy McHugh and as played by Erroll Garner in this early stage.
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