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This song is short and sweet. I wanted to add violin to this song to demonstrate how acoustic piano and electric-violin work so well together, and move beyond the "classical" music cliches when other sonic elements are added. Of course Rick Wakeman and YES have been doing this for decades. YES has always been one of my favorite bands and I was listening to them extensively when I was a senior in high school (along with Led Zepplin, Moody Blues, etc.).
I recorded this for my brother Rex, as I am anxious to work with him on performing with him in the same style - acoustic piano and electric-violin. He mentioned that he wanted to learn to play the dumbek drum, so I thought "why not add the ceramic-drum sound to this piece?" If you read this brother, I hope this motivates you to find a piano and call me.
This song was re-mixed from the Rick Wakeman album "The Lord of the Rings". Rivendell means the "deep valley of the cleft" (see Rivendell in WikiPedia), and was the valley that Bilbo Baggens stopped with the dwarves before going to the Lonely Mountain. In this case, we are coming back from the lonely mountain, and are traveling back to the mythical "home". I love Rick Wakeman's work, and would like to add electric-violin to some of the other solo pieces -- although I find solo piano soothing, it always beckons me to add violin to it.
Although this is a short piece, it took me all day to rehearse and edit the violin tracks. Rick Wakeman is absolutely masterful on piano, and I wanted to be as precise as possible with this piece --- I would love to perform this live.
Thanks for everyone who has listened to these songs -- there will be about 15-20 songs posted by the end of November, 2008, so keep coming back for more musical analysis, comments on home-recording techniques, and electric-violin experimentation.
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