Jazz Bosendorfer
by John Stebbe

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	thoddi said 1045 days ago
	Wooohooo This is some great piano playing:) And what great sound in them keys. It sounds soooo goood. You're a good pianoplayer Mr. Stebbe. I only wish it lasted longer....

	thetiler said 1045 days ago
	class love that almost harp sound in the beginning to go with the rest of some of the best music that has been on this site. A real treat John, your getting high marks from me.

composerclark said 1045 days ago

Very tasteful Tastefully played, as always, but, like thoddi, I wish it had gone on a lot longer. I'm not sure why it's as short as it is; the long intro seems to be setting up a much lengthier piece. But, as I always tell my students, better to leave 'em wanting more than vice versa. This is a mighty impressive piano sound. Never heard anything like it! I'm curious about your recording process. Do you just hit "record" and begin playing, or do you do some editing after the fact? Your playing always has a wonderfully natural feel to it. Looking forward to more!

John Stebbe said 1045 days ago

Very tasteful Thanks a lot, Clark. Yes, it's rather brief. It just comes out that way sometimes. Do I just hit "record?" Well, yes and no. I hit "record" several dozen times before I get a take that I like. Even then, I go back and do some editing here and there. I have found that practicing without the record button on does me no good. (Unless it's the very early stages of rehearsal.) I have to believe somewhere inside me that this might be the take that other people hear. It's the next best thing to being in a live performance situation. When I used to teach piano lessons, I would sometimes tell my students, "Record yourself playing this piece on a cassette tape, and when it's as good as you can make it, then bring that tape to me." The students who took this advice seriously invariably improved markedly in that one week. Sometimes you just don't know how bad you sound (or how good, to be fair) until you hear yourself played back on a recording device. That's what makes this age of computer music and super-high fidelity recording so wonderful for performers. They have more tools than ever before to critique themselves, and to learn from hearing their own performances. --- My jazz piano CD on the<a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=79324809&s=143441"> iTunes Music Store</a>.

John Stebbe said 1045 days ago

Relaxing Thanks, Mungo. Sounds like you really know your pianos! I wonder how many other MJers know about that unique aspect of the Bosendorfer. All the pianos in Ivory can be transposed down, lower than the ear can appreciate. (Or up.) But as to whether the creators of Ivory actually sampled those extra low notes on a real Bosendorfer? For that kind of money, I hope so! But I don't know. --- My jazz piano CD on the<a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=79324809&s=143441"> iTunes Music Store</a>.

	said 1045 days ago
	Relaxing John, thanks for answering. I look forward to hearing more of your work utilizing these samples. --- Ars longa, vita brevis.

John Stebbe said 1042 days ago

That's a COMPUTER??? 40gb, and it's on an external LaCie drive. Even if you had enough room on your main HD to store it, it would not work there (so the Ivory tech people told me). You have to store it externally. I think the reason is so that workload of reading the MIDI data, sending that to Ivory, having Ivory create the sound, and having that sound bounced to disk, would be spread between the two hard drives. My eMac can just barely keep up with it, although I do have sufficient resources to drive it (barely). But if you're a pianist who likes to make recordings regularly (and cheaply), a program like Ivory (and there are a couple of other similar titles out there) becomes indispensable after you've used it for awhile. I wonder how I got along without it for so long! Software like this is pricey (around 350.00), but compared to booking "real" studio time, it's a bargain. Thanks for the kind words, Cantor, and everyone else. --- My jazz piano CD on the<a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=79324809&s=143441"> iTunes Music Store</a>.