A Simple Thank You (crazy fast exciting piece)

Here's another piece by me, dedicated to my grandfather. Hope you enjoy it.

A Simple Thank You.mid

A Simple Thank You.pdf

this piece is fantastic. such brilliant joy and brightness, wow i REALLY enjoyed this piece. i thought your ending was a little abrubt, i'm in two minds about the staccato finish, but it was a beautiful poweful melody, well done

on the downside, i tihnk parts of it seem a little difficult, mainly the upward runs, and the constant shifting of balance in the right hand would completley knacker your hand. still a great piece

ljoekelsoey

Great Job, the theme sounded like something from the carnival to me.

Thank you. It is supposed to be a virtuostic piece, although not overly hard. And I believe I've had two statements that my pieces will destroy hands so far... that shows they're for the pros.

i have been learning this piece, and all is ghoin well, however, bars 21-24 have proven to be exceptionally difficult, but the real thing is it is unessicarily (?) difficult, if you switched the 4th (if i remmber correctly) onto the second semiquaver, it would be far easier to play. if you have tried to play this wou will see what i mean

lol I just ran to my piano just to double check... I actually don't find the part you mentioned more difficult than the way you suggested, just different. Do you have small hands? That might be the problem, my teacher told me I have Rachmaninoff (big) hands. The way I see it, the fourth's are actually a separate melody line from the broken octaves. If you isolated them and played them as 8th notes with the accompaniment, you would see what I mean. Well, I just spent several minutes considering possibilities for a possible ossia... I've tried: what you suggested; all the notes as 8th note chords; cutting out the melody line that I mentioned; cutting out the bottom notes of the broken octaves; even cutting out the octaves and making the hidden melody line broken octaves itself. Ok, final decision made, if I had to (or will) write an ossia for that part, it would be like this. Tell me how that sounds, feels, and if it's easier for you.

Song1.pdf

And I'm flattered and grateful that you would take the time to learn one of my pieces... If you have any means of recording your playing, could I hear it?

i aplogise, i didn't explain cleary enough, from looking at your score of those bars, you completlely got rid of the 4ths, i was merley suggesting instead of having them on the 1st, 3rd, 5th, etc semi quavers, have them on the 2nd, 4th, 6th etc, no i don't have small hands i can reach a 10th comfortably, i just found playing the fourths with the thumb difficult as i then have to tort my hand to use my little finger on the octave notes, it may work for you, but how you have written it, it doesnt fit my hands well (the 4th is right in the middle of my 2nd and 3rd finger so i have to bend my hand to reach it properly) i will learn it and put it up on youtube (with your permission) and OFCOURSe i would greatly appreciate feedback on how you feel it should be played :thumbsup:

I enjoyed this very much. (VERY much.) Like another alchemynut said, it sounds relative to a carnival. Be sure to check out my suite, Memories of an Asylum.

A bit reminiscent of Chopin's Minute Waltz to me. Always good.

Okay how about this Ljoekelsoey: you play it with your suggestion, moving the 4ths onto the 2nd 4th and 6th beats. You record it, but if you put it on youtube, you be sure to put my full name somewhere on it ("Daniel Vallery") and make it obvious that it's a slightly modified version, somehow, either giving the video a little title screen or just in the "About this video" section. that's a go ahead from me.

of course... if you don't credit me i could sue you, but that's not gonna happen, right? lol

techinically i can do whatever i want with it, without giving you any credit, as you havent legally copyrighted it, but thats not gonna happen :thumbsup:

cheers!

techinically i can do whatever i want with it, without giving you any credit, as you havent legally copyrighted it, but thats not gonna happen :thumbsup:

cheers!

I do believe that he has, actually.

Ok, Ljoekelsoey. You record it the way you suggested, with the notes moved over. You put my full name (Daniel Vallery) and you state that the piece (put this too, A Simple Thank You: Pappaw's Song) is slightly modified from the original. You do that, and you can post it on YouTube.

To the others, thank you. Aaron, I'll try to check out your suite tomorrow... i'm in a little rush now, but i'll admit an asylum suite is a VERY original and interesting idea.

I liked this.

The movement of the bass in certain sections stood out for me.

That adds an interesting dimension to any composition.

Ok, Ljoekelsoey. You record it the way you suggested, with the notes moved over. You put my full name (Daniel Vallery) and you state that the piece (put this too, A Simple Thank You: Pappaw's Song) is slightly modified from the original. You do that, and you can post it on YouTube.

i was only joking mate! i will OFCOURSE give you full credit :P

I accidentally wrote two replies to what you said... my bad. I wasn't trying to sound mad or anything. Oh well.

But actually yes I have sent them in to copyright, they just haven't been confirmed yet.

Re Copyright, from wikipedia:

The 1886 Berne Convention first established recognition of copyrights among sovereign nations, rather than merely bilaterally. Under the Berne Convention, copyrights for creative works do not have to be asserted or declared, as they are automatically in force at creation: an author need not "register" or "apply for" a copyright in countries adhering to the Berne Convention. As soon as a work is "fixed", that is, written or recorded on some physical medium, its author is automatically entitled to all copyrights in the work, and to any derivative works unless and until the author explicitly disclaims them, or until the copyright expires. The Berne Convention also resulted in foreign authors being treated equivalently to domestic authors, in any country signed onto the Convention.

The UK signed the Berne Convention in 1887 but did not implement large parts of it until 100 years later with the passage of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act of 1988. The USA did not sign the Berne Convention until 1989.

The regulations of the Berne Convention are incorporated into the World Trade Organization's TRIPS agreement, thus making the Berne Convention practically world-wide.

[...]

In the United States, copyright has been made automatic (in the style of the Berne Convention) since March 1, 1989, which has had the effect of making it appear to be more like a property right. Thus, as with some forms of personal property, a copyright need not be granted or obtained through official registration with any government office. Once an idea has been reduced to tangible form, for example by securing it in a fixed medium (such as a drawing, sheet music, photograph, a videotape or a letter), the copyright holder is entitled to enforce his or her exclusive rights. However, while a copyright need not be officially registered for the copyright owner to begin exercising his exclusive rights, registration of works (where the laws of that jurisdiction provide for registration) does have benefits

So no, you can't use someone else's work without their permission. Creative works are copyrighted by default.

I know we were joking around here, but it's a common misconception that copyrights HAVE to be registered.

Ok, Ljoekelsoey. You record it the way you suggested, with the notes moved over. You put my full name (Daniel Vallery) and you state that the piece (put this too, A Simple Thank You: Pappaw's Song) is slightly modified from the original. You do that, and you can post it on YouTube.

To the others, thank you. Aaron, I'll try to check out your suite tomorrow... i'm in a little rush now, but i'll admit an asylum suite is a VERY original and interesting idea.

Ah! Thank you!

Re Copyright, from wikipedia:

So no, you can't use someone else's work without their permission. Creative works are copyrighted by default.

I know we were joking around here, but it's a common misconception that copyrights HAVE to be registered.

just out of intrest, what countries are part of the 'Berne Convention?'

just out of intrest, what countries are part of the 'Berne Convention?'

From the quote:

The regulations of the Berne Convention are incorporated into the World Trade Organization's TRIPS agreement, thus making the Berne Convention practically world-wide.

Great piece, I don't think that the 4ths are too difficult. But I think for balance, you could increase the difficulty of the left hand, which seems to be little bit unexciting.

Overall, this is quite enjoyable and very funny.

good one