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Hiromi Uehara: Amarone in Jazz-Verona-12 October 2010

// November 25th, 2010 // No Comments » // News, Uncategorized, Videos

Interview with  Hiromi Uehara and with Pepe Gasparini  at Amarone in Jazz 2010

Some time ago we went to  Verona in order to talk with a young and talented artist: the japanese pianist Hiromi Uehara, that performed a piano solo concert at the Palazzo della Gran Guardia during the festival Amarone in jazz, the only italian live .

We chatted a little with  Pepe Gasparini, a musician and the festival’s artistic director, who illustrated during the interview the ends of this cultural project and told us about his musical vision, and  the Centro Studi Musicali di Verona  ( he is the president) with great enthusiasm. The result of this passion and effort is evident in the amazing good achievements and  in festival’s atmosphere. You can listen to what he told by this short video interview.

The climax of the event was, obviously, Hiromi Uehara performance, a young musician whose artistic talent and figure attracted our attention:  a genius of the piano, she began to study at the age of 6, attending the  Yamaha School of Music al Berklee College of Music di Boston. Today she is 31 and has played with Chik Corea or in a Philharmonic orchestra, important steps for an important musician like she has proved to be. The live performance didn’t deceived. In addition to recent compositions from her last piano solo project “Place to be”, Hiromi played pieces from old LPs and we could notice her extraordinary technical ability and deep empathetic approach to the instrument. We saw her smiling, crying, nodding…as the notes were something coming from her deepest soul.

Hiromi Uehara al pianoforte

Visionary, acrobatic, with waterfalls of notes that seem not to stop and, suddendly,  move to introspection, Hiromi  tells us her emotional world.. a world that is not abstract but comes from the observation of the little things of everyday life: flights , towns, pictures taken randomly ,  hotels,  impressions, a world that her sensitivity transforms into an original and rich musical language.

Here it is the interview with Hiromi… follow her because she will success..

Download the interview Hiromi Uehara

Giulio Cinelli – Michele Guerrini – Paola Parri

Piano Wallpapers!!

// November 3rd, 2010 // No Comments » // News, Uncategorized

Some sweet piano wallpapers for your desktop to get for free…:
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Frank Sinatra- My Way (piano sheet)

// September 25th, 2010 // 2 Comments » // Uncategorized

Our 2  employees have graduated!!! They got the highest mark!! We are happy and we dedicate to them, to their will to succeed in everything they want to do this beautiful song:Frank Sinatra – My Way!! Today an amazing party full of laughs, wine, and friends will celebrate the event but we want to share with you our happiness.. and what is a good way to?’? well to help  you to play My WAY!!!

Frank Sinatra recorded this song in 1968, and reached a popularity that his original author Claude François (with the title “Comme d’abitude”) didn’t get. This piece is considered still today one of the most representative songs of Sinatra, and one of the most beautiful of all times.

Here it is the piano sheet, enjoy!!. here

Chucho Valdes- a jazz pianist you must know!!

// September 23rd, 2010 // No Comments » // Uncategorized

He is one of the first pianist I fell in love with, his name is Chucho Valdes, son of Bebo Valdes. He was born in Cuba in 1941 and started playing the piano at the age of 3. At 5 he went to piano lessons with Oscar Munhoz Boufartique, and, when he was 8, he began his path into the conservatory. He will end his studies at the age of 14. He will get a role into his father’s orchestra and, shortly he will become of the 5 most famous jazz pianists in the world along with Bill Evans, Oscar Peterson, Herbie Hancock e Chick Corea14 nominations and  5 Grammy awards, these are his numbers to become a jazz legend!!. His music follows afrocuban rhythms in an explosive mixture of passion, feelings and freedom in a technical perfection.

Here it is the duet between Valdes and his father, the piece is called:
“La comparsa”

another video, the performance of  “Calle 51″. pure technical perfection!

Valdes, his talent, his genius, will need thousands and thousands words to describe it better…. look for him on the web, youtube, deezer… Have a nice listening!!

few happy holidays!!!

// August 12th, 2010 // No Comments » // Uncategorized

Hello mates!!

it’s time to have some fun… just few days.. some parties on the beach, the old-fashioned italian sun, stuff like this. I know you will understand me ;)

so…see you and don’t worry new posts will come!!!

byeeeeee

I’M AWFULLY SORRY

// July 21st, 2010 // No Comments » // Uncategorized

DON’T SHOOT THE PIANIST!

IT’S MY FAULT, I KNOW AND I HAVE NO JUSTIFICATION FOR THIS TERRIBLE LACK OF POSTS…. I HOPE YOU COULD ACCEPT MY APOLOGIES AND FORGIVE ME …

FROM NEXT WEEK, I PROMISE, A FLOOD OF AMAZING POSTS WILL OVERWHELM YOU !!!

OKPIANO= PIANOSOLO.NET

// June 10th, 2010 // No Comments » // Uncategorized

HI TO EVERYBODY!!! I’M HERE NOW TO SAY ONLY ONE THING. AS YOU HAVE PROPBABLY ALREADY NOTICED SOMETHING LITTLE HAS CHAGED IN OUR WEBSITE FOR PIANO ENTHUSIASTS:  the web address .

From ok.piano.org to pianosolo.net

Our site is growing up more and more in the last times, so we are gonna make some little changes but DO NOT WORRY, nothing in the content, in the competence and in our reliability will change. I will keep you up to date about any relevant modifications.

I assure you :)


Exercises n.47-48-49 Beyer op.101 Lesson n.32

// May 26th, 2010 // No Comments » // Beyer, Lessons, Uncategorized

Hello everybody! today we are going to make some more practice focusing on the evolution we have underlined in the  last exercises. I’ll just tell you the most important and crucial difficulties you could come across during each exercise.

Number 47: Right hand lies on the 5 notes, from C to G. Left hand ,instead, covers 6 notes from G to E. You will be forced to be more flexible and move from your static position.

At each interruption of the binding notes, raise your hands (slightly)

Number 48, even though it is quite simple, it could result a bit complex from a rhythmic point of view, and because of the left hand, which touches note B with the 5th finger. If you have some doubts about the value of the note, you can look at the first  picture that shows the value with a different graphic, the binding notes.

Number 49: pay attention at the left hand: it covers 7 notes, from B to A. The hand stays in the classic position of 5 notes, from C to G, but sometimes the 5th finger goes to B and 1st finger to A.

Study with separate hands and then, with the help of a metronome, play with both.

Czerny Op.777 – 24 exercises on 5 notes

// April 28th, 2010 // 1 Comment » // easy pieces, Lessons, Uncategorized

For those people who have  recently started studying piano, a different, very effective way, to follow, could be the ‘op. 777 by Czerny. Composed for  didactic puroposes, it gathers a series of exercises designed expressly to move around the 5 notes. First in the key of C , then G, D and F major.

In reality the hand cover more than the 5 notes, in particular the left one, but it’s not difficult. The exercises are really catchy and I am sure that if you  play all you will improve enormously your skills.

Perhaps in the future I would make some videos of these exercises, in the meanwhile here you are the piano sheets.

HERE

Wikio is coming!

// April 19th, 2010 // No Comments » // Uncategorized

Today I would like to tell you about something different. Something that is beyond any other thing you could have experienced. It’s Wikio Shopping and despite of this unpretentious name, you will be stunned by it. Why does Wikio Shopping exist? What is its vision? Offer to everyone a centralized location where all information about a product your are looking for would be gathered, including  price comparison. Is it only formal, advertising, and standard details?? Not at all. In reality, a major role is played by users’ reviews, videos and photographs. If you are seeking out some news about Kaoss pad (if you’re a creative musician), a good hotel ( if you are a traveller) or music, books ( if you are someone who still feels and thinks), gifts (if you are sociable), you can easily dive into tons of well-organized suggestions, anecdotes and self-made you-tube video reviews.

As a honest writer, I tested the site  myself, putting in the search engine different words like : Technics 1200 ( a turntable), bonsai tree, the name of a rap artist, a Canon E03 550D camera, Macbook.

Well, ok… it was fast and precise but I was completely surprised by two things in particular: the unbelievable amount of useful information, which is always well-accepted ( and not as obvious as it may seem) , and the presence of personal stories, experiences posted by users, who wanted to share their second thought, opinions, expectations and little dreams. All things that make Wikio Shopping something new… Are you able to imagine 235.000 items sorted into more than two hundred categories? Or almost a million tests, reviews, 600.000 photos and half million videos? I’m not. But here it is. Wikio Shopping is operating in 5 European countries as well as in the USA. It’s a place to find promotional codes and offers too. The graphic and the organization of the site is clear and really comfortable. Cooperation with Amazon (which administrate the cultural sector sales) and Sprice (for the touristic locations, with more than 6000 cities all over the world) means a strong assurance of reliability for us, as customers. Finally, along with this, I would like to underline that Wikio also offers a cash back service to its users: “Wikio Deals”. What to say more?? A new idea of collective knowledge is on the way Wikio Shopping

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