A new idea.

I’m working on a new project now. The original song is absolutely amazing, even it’s quite old already.  I heard it for the first time some time ago, but I got crazy about it not earlier than 3 days ago

I’m sorry for so long time without any new video, but – as I’ve already mentioned – I had left my country and my piano for a while and now I spend most of my time studying for the exams.

But, the new piece is almost ready for being released!

I came back home.

It’s time to start playing!

Choosing the music to catch

If you asked me how I choose the music to play, it would be a tricky question. I don’t use any specific criteria, maybe only some ‘technical’ ones. Pieces that I want to play on piano usually have very a simple and characteristic melody, easily transposable on piano and – the funny thing – they are mostly quite melancholic, while I’m completely not. Some time ago (maybe at the age of 12, 13?) I tried to compose the music, but the only formations that I could create were slow, and very, veeeery sad valtzes, as they were just the simplest ones to being played. However, it’s important to mention that these valtzes were not a bit original and every note sounded like you have already heard it somewhere before.

But, coming back to the selection of  music to play, it happens automatically, without any conscious reflections. If I have and idea and my piano somewhere nearby, I usually start to play immediately . If a ‘good’ piece has been chosen, then I play untill it sounds at least so-so. But if I see that the difficulty level of that piece of music is much higher than I expected, I give it up, mostly forever. That happened e.g. to the Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen or to the Piano Thing by Muse (that one played by me is absolutely beyond my boldest dreams), but also to some easier ones that I don’t remember anymore.

The sources of the music that I play differ much. Most of them come from my personal favourites, but some of them I know only thanks to my friends who either showed me them as interesting ones or just asked me for playing them. But surely I like all of them. If I didn’t, I would’t spend even a minute on trying to play them, as I wouldn’t have any motivation to do so.

I like many different kinds of music, but – to be honest – I have difficulty with getting familiar with new records, so very often I feel musically a bit narrow-minded. That’s why I really like music recommendations from my friends, as they already know what types of pieces I would like and COULD play and – what is maybe more important – with their will of hearing me playing ‘their’ songs I’m at once highly motivated and much more patient than usually.

So, I’m open to every music suggestions – if they are nice to hear and not that difficult as the Piano Thing of Muse, you can be sure that I will try to play them at least once.

(Currently my piano is faaar away from me, as I’m in the coldest country that I’ve ever been, but when I come back, I will play something new with real pleasure.)

Playing

Let’s write here something about my music.

I’m an amateur and I’m sure that I will never be any kind of professional, as it’s not my goal. I do it for my own pleasure, when I’m in a mood and have time. But of course, I put my first video on youtube with the purpose to share it with other people, for whom it sometimes might be pleasurable too. I’m really surprised that so many people like to listen to these poor records from my webcam that I put there in 2008, but surely it makes me happier. 

But, I have to admit that I don’t really like listening to my own records, except only some of them. I just exactly hear all the mistakes that I make. Very often I play too fast, the sounds are not precise enough, they fuse and merge in a highly difficult mixture. To make matter worse, I’m too lazy to correct that. Not earlier than only some 2 years ago I found out that the biggest pleasure for me is just playing, not listening what I currently play. Of course, there are some days when my music is so totally bad that I can’t stand it anymore and even I would really like to play something more, I give it up and start another day. But usually it’s enough for me to just play something. I think that when I use my fingers I don’t really use my ears and that’s why this music  makes me feel relaxed. Only after listening to my records I can hear that I have still a loooooooooooot to do with that piece of music.

So, I repeat that I’m not going to be a professional piano player. Not only because it’s not my purpose, but also because I think it’s not my nature.

Hello World!

So, I’ve just started writing my blog. For now, I cannot say exactly what it will be about, but definitely it’s going to be related with my piano. Not the instrument itself, but the music that it lets me create from time to time. What I can promise you is absolutely no politics in here, no world breaking-news and no commercials. My objective is to share with you some of my thoughts, especially those connected with music.

Firstly, let me introduce myself.

I was born, I live and most probably will always live in Poland, the country which I really love, although we still have a lot of things to do in here (actually that’s the reason for which I’ve decided to stay here and not to go abroad). I am 22 years old and feel absolutely OK with that. It’s the moment in my life when I’m still very young and the same time I already have a right to have strong plans for the future. I benefit from that as much as I can.

(Probably it will be the largest piece of my personal life in here.)