See the original post and sheet music here

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MP3: Jay_Chou_-_Fragrant_Rice.mp3

Sheet Music: Jay_Chou_-_Fragrant_Rice.pdf

This song is off the Capricorn album:

First post in a very long time!

This song is the first single off the new Jay album Capricorn, and has been requested by a couple people, including wenge and  Matt Chang.

Mainly though, I really like this song!  It’s the first time I’d have a single single song playing on repeat in a while.  Even though I don’t understand taiwanese, the vibe is so reassuring.

Anyways, hope you all like it

In other news, it will be sheetmusicguy’s 1 year anniversary in just under 2 weeks!  Don’t believe a year has gone by already!

Haaappy biiirtthhdaaayy tooo meeeeee…..

Enjoy!

Jay Chou - A Secret I Cannot Tell

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Jay Chou - Maple

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Jay Chou - Tornado

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I’d post a video and sheetmusic, track the number of views and downloads, and know that somewhere out there in that big big world somebody might be practicing something that I had a hand in making.  Then every so often I’ll get an appreciative comment, and sometimes the occasional request for a song.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m really appreciative of all the positive attention, even if I rarely respond to anybody directly, if ever.  It’s great knowing that I’m having some kind of positive influence on the world, but right now, that’s all it is….knowledge.

This site gives me a positive intellectual response, but not an emotional one.

I read some web stats, some numbers or text on a screen, and I know I’m having some kind of impact……but I don’t feel anything out of it because it’s too far removed from that level of human connection.

It’s not like you’re playing a live show, doing a speech, or telling a joke, where the response is immediate and personal.  Laughter, smiles, applause, something.  Not on the internet….the only laughter I get is “lol” and the only smiles I get are “:)”.  Dammit, I just want to feel again!!!  ha ha …lol…i mean..uh…awww….

<pause for breath>

So anyways, I was surfing youTube one day, and video searched my own name for fun.  Amongst all the results that were my own (and this other dude who took ’sheetmusicguy’ before me), I stumbled across a few performances of stuff off this site!  One guy even used the logo!! Cool!!

The best part of all this was this feeling I got while watching.  Actually being able to see and hear somebody other than myself playing those arrangements, actually seeing somebody else enjoy the results of the work I was doing.  It felt….really good!!

In response to this, I’ve set up a new section on this site for your performances.  If you ever tape yourself playing anythng off this site, I want to know about it, and I want to help you show it off….if that’s okay with you of course.

See all the posted performances so far by clicking here.

Thank you all for making me feel good 

Here’s all you gotta do….

1) Tape yourself playing a song you’ve gotten off this site, and upload it to youTube, or whatever video site you use.

Please feel free to use my logos: 01 and 02

2) Link this site off your video (http://www.sheetmusicguy.com)

3) Tell me about it by posting a reply here!!!

Then I’ll make a post featuring your video!

So simple!!

Now stop reading and get to work!

yeeeeahhhhh…

I busted out a remix and entered!

Check out the remix here, and PLEASE VOTE for it!!!!
http://www.indabamusic.com/submissions/show/2389

Here’s the original song, if it’s new to you:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruyKqhSidyw

Thanks so much everybody!

Just to change things up a bit…

I recorded a cover song the past few days and I’d like to share it with you.

There’s a Canadian band called Dragonette that has a pretty big single around here, called I Get Around

Check it out here: http://www.myspace.com/dragonetteband

I made a version of it on my myspace page: http://www.myspace.com/aeonlung

One version with beat, and one pure acoustic…which one’s better?

Full downloads there too, if you like it.

Enjoy!

MP3: Linkin_Park_-_Crawling_(www.sheetmusicguy.com).mp3

Sheet Music: Linkin_Park_-_Crawling.pdf

This is a single off their first album, “Hybrid Theory”. It can also be found on their new “Road to Revolution” live CD/DVD

This is in response to a request by J, who thinks that it’s heavy sound will be hard to imitate on piano and was wondering if I was up to the challenge.
Rather than accent it’s heaviness, (except for the end), I went the complete other direction, and softened it up in this interpretation.
It’s actually a very melodic song once you strip away the beats and distortion, and I tried to bring that to the foreground.

This was a lot of fun to put together, and I think you’ll like it too. Easy to play, and lots of room to breathe and emote. I really enjoyed doing this one…and I think it shows. One of my better performances.

It’s good to be back

I finished playing the wedding last week and it went pretty well.   No screw ups!  woo hoo!!  There was a professional videographer there so hopefully when the video comes back I can post a version of it on the site.

Songs include Five For Fighting’s 100 years, and Faber Drive’s Tongue Tied, which worked really well when the bride was marching down the isle.  As for the wedding march itself, I made a bit of a mashup of the two main wedding march themes (Mendelssohn & Handel), I’ll probably post something up here for it eventually for any other wedding pianists that might find it useful.

Recently, aside from this, I’ve been wading through the requests I’ve gotten and one of them really caught my eye.  “Hmmm”, I said to myself, “this could work”…….so I bashed it out, and yes…it did work.  I taped the performance yesterday and I’ll hopefully have the sheets made and the whole thing posted really soon.

First new content in over 3 months!!  wooo!