guy, do you have wife and children?!
i wonder where you do take the time to compose all those outstanding demos [:)]))

my wife always kicks me if i spend too much hours in front of the monitor

I think he is very fast working and efficient is the biggest reason!

guy what samples/patches did you use for the massife forte-piano-forte dynamic tuttis ?
i just tried to figure it out but there is only pfp dynamic patches ...

@Sangit said:

guy, do you have wife and children?!
i wonder where you do take the time to compose all those outstanding demos [:)]))

my wife always kicks me if i spend too much hours in front of the monitor

Yes I do, a wife and a 4 year old boy constantly taking over my computer to play video games with me.... so I have to save a night shift to work and at the end of the week there's one day I'm half asleep all day....

But my main job is Pizza delivery man. Just kidding!

Emm! Not sure how to answer that, I guess it's the accumulation of being tested in life and responding by going beyond what I thought my limits were. When confronted in certain musical circumstances you have the choice of abandoning it or challenging it, so having had more than my share of failures I guess I got use to challenging the situation. To give you an ex. When I began playing the piano I had 4 piano teachers in less than a year, the first 3 gave up on me, and I was a terrible piano student with them. If I wouldn't of had that 4th piano teacher who literally changed my life I wouldn't be responding here right now....

As for you other question, I only used Close mic piano for BatGuy, but I'm not sure what passage you're talking about, might be better to give the time of it.

That's very interesting about your piano teachers Guy. I was very similar funny we never discussed that.

I learned piano since age 5 also but when I was 9 I learned from an old Czech piano teacher in Sydney city he lived in an old council apartment and didn't have much money but he still wanted an audition before he would teach me.

Somewhere between the Bach and Mozart he gave me a feeling for the music that I've never been able to let go - he was a great teacher, and is what keeps me interested in music against all odds... he he. He certainly gave me a dream that is as alive for me as ever despite the fact that I have less and less time for music.

He told me once that during the war he was hired by a German army officer or General or something like that to play at a party at a Berlin mansion which he occupied in the middle of summer. George my teacher was Jewish in appearance, how can I say it lets just say he was no blonde haired blue eyed Brad Pitt type! but a man of character and charm nevertheless and a good heart mascarading as a handsome devil... and he married a woman who from the photos I saw was one of the dolls of her time, anyway it was because he was such a talented musician he said people had blinkers on about the fact he was Jewish which surprised me after the movies we see about how things were during the war - he was even playing American jazz at a German officers party if you think about it pretty amazing but he got away with it, he was one of a kind. During the party the officer asked him if everything was OK for him (as the hired musician) he said yes but commented casually it was a pretty hot day could they have a drink of water, so the drunk officer said that was unacceptable he be uncomfortable and ordered his men to put the Steinway into the swimming pool so that the piano player could play with his feet in the water. As much as he protested after that (gently) saying he was only joking and so forth, he couldn't stop them from ruining this beautiful instrument, and he played for the rest of the day with his feet in the water, sorry he had opened his mouth of course he loved any piano especially a really good one as does any pianist. Of course the piano was pretty much ruined after that, he said they just threw it out and got another one.

Anyway a bit of an aside on what I would say is one of the 20th centuries great pianists, more infamous than famous but a significant contributor of stature and great substance none the less - George Best.

Miklos.

Very nice composition. The thing I thought it could use more of was a good melodic passage.

Perhaps a second demo using the same instruments and musical ideas...

While I am requesting, has anyone created a mock-up of Schubert's Die Forellenquintet?

@esperlad said:

Very nice composition. The thing I thought it could use more of was a good melodic passage.

I new I forgot something! [:D]