Bob Farrell
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I have played piano since around the age of 10 or 11 (born 1984), almost exclusively playing purely improvised works. My music is mostly inspired by the romantic period, so my main influences are Chopin, Ravel, Rachmaninov, etc..
The recordings up to number XXV were all made on a Kawai grand piano that I used once a week. Currently I am recording on my M-Audio ProKeys 88 digital piano.
The change in piano also coincides with my resuming piano lessons which so far are proving to be hugely beneficial to me, so hopefully this will be reflected in the music.
Feel free to leave a note with whatever feedback you feel like giving, and if you do enjoy something you hear then please do share it with your friends.
Mon Sep 19 18:31:40 2011
Piano Improvisation XXXII
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I've been working on a few pieces from J.S. Bach's Well Tempered Clavier recently so I've been trying to improvise some baroque-style things to help with that, and also just to generally improve my precision, control and understanding of counterpoint.
It's a little terrifying not having huge discordant harmonies to hide behind but it's definitely making my overall playing better.
Fri Sep 16 17:10:30 2011
Piano Improvisation XXXI
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I wasn't getting anywhere with minor keys so I gave up and tried a major (G in this case). I managed to keep it down to 3m17s ! I'm interested in trying a few more nocturne-like things like this so the next few uploads may be in a similar style.
Mon Sep 12 16:08:16 2011
Piano Improvisation XXX
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The theme from this was stolen from about halfway through an improvisation I put up here a while ago (XXVII) and built this entire improvisation around it because I liked it so much. I think it worked out really well ... even though it's slightly longer than my target three minutes ...
Fri Sep 9 18:26:09 2011
Piano Improvisation XXIX
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Thu Sep 8 16:24:42 2011
Piano Improvisation XXVIII
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Plays 19 Downloads 31
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Sun Aug 28 17:41:40 2011
Piano Improvisation XXVII
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Tue Aug 23 16:21:12 2011
Piano Improvisation XXVI
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Plays 32 Downloads 42
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Sun Dec 19 00:08:25 2010
Piano Improvisation XXV
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Mon Dec 13 11:24:19 2010
Piano Improvisation XXIV
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Wed Dec 8 21:50:19 2010
Piano Improvisation XXIII
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Mon Dec 6 11:01:25 2010
Piano Improvisation XXII
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Plays 18 Downloads 158
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Mon Dec 6 10:38:10 2010
Piano Improvisation XXI
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Mon Jan 25 11:59:37 2010
Piano Improvisation XX
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Sat Jan 16 20:35:00 2010
Piano Improvisation XIX
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Sat Jan 16 20:23:11 2010
Piano Improvisation XVIII
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Sun Dec 20 16:42:27 2009
Piano Improvisation XVII
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Sat Nov 21 20:10:24 2009
Piano Improvisation XVI
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Sat Nov 21 20:05:07 2009
Piano Improvisation XV
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Fri Nov 13 11:45:58 2009
Piano Improvisation XIV
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Fri Nov 13 11:41:40 2009
Piano Improvisation XIII
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Sun Oct 11 18:50:23 2009
Piano Improvisation XII
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Mon Oct 5 10:27:32 2009
Piano Improvisation XI
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Sun Oct 4 23:22:01 2009
Piano Improvisation X
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Sat Sep 19 20:29:09 2009
Piano Improvisation IX
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Sun Sep 13 15:41:39 2009
Piano Improvisation VIII
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Sat Aug 8 17:04:39 2009
Piano Improvisation VII
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Sun Jul 12 21:54:39 2009
Piano Improvisation VI
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Sun Jul 12 21:46:36 2009
Piano Improvisation V
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Sun Jul 12 21:29:28 2009
Piano Improvisation IV
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Sun Jul 12 21:16:02 2009
Piano Improvisation III
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Sun Jul 12 21:07:30 2009
Piano Improvisation II
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Plays 6 Downloads 253
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Sun Jul 12 20:04:33 2009
Piano Improvisation I
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