วีดีโอ

Un Sospiro is a definite influence, as I’ve played it for over 20 years. Haven’t seen the movie, but have seen good things about it. I should probably watch it, huh? Thank you so much for the comment!

@@DoctorJoelThomas It’s my favorite movie! If nothing else, if you listen to “Song on the Beach”, I’m sure you’ll hear the resemblance between that and your etude (: And you’re very welcome!

@@Varooooooom Oh wow, that’s high praise! I’ll definitively check it out!

Yes, that’s intentional, I’m sorry you didn’t enjoy it. It is intended to be jarring, and has deep meaning. I do this in a lot of my compositions, and it is precisely what I’m referring to with the pun in the title.

@@DoctorJoelThomas I know it was intentional Joel. The prob is not with the idea, its with the execution

@@DoctorJoelThomas i also prefer to give honest feedback since most youtube comments are either positive or negative without an actual access into the audience's perception during the hearing of the recording. and since you are the composer, your perception becomes tilted after the first listen of the piece. i hope you dont take offense in my previous response as honesty is best for improving ones work

@@TheTeeProd You may enjoy some of my other more strictly tonal and modal compositions, this one does go off of the rails in service of the functionality of the subject and countersubject materials. I try to release a new composition every day, when balancing between my full-time job as a music teacher allows, so keep listening and I’m sure you’ll hear something you’ll appreciate without reservation! I appreciate you taking the time to comment.

@@DoctorJoelThomas i will def take a listen as i see the level of work u put out there. Good luck and keep us listening

Thank you! I did try to compose it as a mono-thematic set! Good ear!

Oh man... so much practice and studying, lol! Are you looking for more specific answers? I do plan to do some videos about technique soon, so stay tuned if that's up your alley! This piece is an improvisation that I did and transcribed.

​@@DoctorJoelThomas oh yeah i'd love to see some videos on technique. i'm still an intermediate pianist and feel like its kinda hard to move from this to being advanced so some videos on stuff like this would be amazing

@@eoawfoaekfokaskdf I have some pretty mind-blowing tricks I've helped thousands of students with over the past 20 years. I'll try to find a way to work those into my future long-form videos.

Awesome!

¡Gracias, Tía! 😍

Thank you so much!

I appreciate that! I’m glad you found it interesting!

LOL

This is a great idea! I almost suggested the option to do that in the video. It can be fun to listen first and see what you can figure out on your own, then compare to the analysis. I do think the analysis is worth watching though, I hope you do too.

Thank you so much! I’ll try!

Thanks, bud!

Thank you so much!

Thank you for checking on me. I was working on the 42nd video. It took a lot longer than I had expected, and it had to be number 42, lol!

I mean, sure, just about all of my pieces could be adapted for orchestra, but I don’t have a really good reason to do that yet, and they’re really intended to be piano solos. I do have several piano concertos that I have orchestral parts for, but I’m going to have to wait until I can set up all my instruments to record those.

@@DoctorJoelThomaspictures at an exhibition ala JT?

@@stevethomas1638 lol

Thank you, I’m enjoying your videos as well! Keep it up!

Mil gracias!

Thank you❤️

Thanks for your input! I don’t really disagree with you on much- I’m my worst critic, lol! I have to release my ideas at some point though, and I’ve put myself on an extremely rigorous schedule- a new composition every day. I’m glad some of the piece was enjoyable for you. The technique was difficult to find something to work with, for sure. I’ll keep developing the technique in future compositions, I’m sure, maybe you’ll enjoy it more in those. I like your möbius canons. I obsessed about writing them, fughettas, and fugues many years ago when I first read Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid. What do you think of that book?

@@DoctorJoelThomas Absolutely, I didn't see you were on an epic compositional marathon until I looked at the other videos on your channel. Wishing you the best of luck. I've been working on a set of miniatures too, but you've already published nearly as many as I intend to write in total! :D There's no way I could write one a day. I'll happily spend an evening just adding dynamics, articulation, directions etc. to a piece which has all the notes already written. Thanks for having a look. To be honest, I wrote them because I was sick and tired of everyone online describing Bach's crab canon as a mobius canon, so I decided I'd write some mathematically accurate mobius canons! :D But I've never been able to write a proper fugue. They tend to collapse in on themselves before too long; each bar sounds nice on its own, but when I play the whole thing, it sounds like a dense mess. I've never read GEB, but I do know of those three figures, and think I've got the gist of the book through social osmosis. Bach is my favourite composer of course, and I had a picture book of Escher's works as a kid and was absolutely captivated. I've had a passing interested in the logic, recursion, paradoxes, etc. as much as the next nerd, but not as much of an interest as the other two. So I'm interested in the source material, but I don't really know how the author could connect those ideas and have something to say about consciousness... don't get me wrong, I like a bit of philosophy, but it does sound a bit too mystical for me! Maybe I'm jumping the gun, having never read it. What do you think?

Awesome, thank you! The goal of Project Leap is to upload a new composition or video every day for the next four years, so there’s a lot more to come!

@@DoctorJoelThomas That is a crazily ambitious timeline! Best of luck, what a project! I aim for one composition a MONTH, and even that can be hard to stick to. (I blame my three young kids...)

@@GregHarradineComposer It is turning out to be very challenging, mainly in terms of producing the videos, not composing. I have a significant backlog of compositions, about two hours worth, and I compose three or four new pieces each day. I’m trying to build a buffer with some shorter works to try to get ahead, so I can have some long form videos and compositions, but every time I get ahead a little editing manages to slow me down again. I have some very cool stuff coming soon though.

@@DoctorJoelThomas Good idea to have a decent buffer of compositions. I know what you mean about video editing - that can easily take as long, if not longer, than actually composing the pieces!

True lol

Thank you! Which are your favorites so far, and what do you like about them?

Thanks! ❤

Great, but stride piano I think is jumping between Bass and Chords with the left hand, here we have a Boogie Bass Line.

@@rolandsing8380 You’re absolutely right. Thanks for commenting, it means a lot!

¡Gracias! ❤️

Thank you!❤️

Thanks! If you like this, also check out 33. Dandelions, which has 5:3 polyrhythms, and 18. It’s Just a Phase, which has polymeter. Also, thanks for the sub, it really means a lot!

No, I'm with you- it’s definitely bad notation practice, lol! In the moment, I just didn’t like the look of it above or below, and thought it contributed philosophically to the emotional messiness of the piece to have it all crammed in there. In the published score I may feel differently, but I produce multiple compositions every day in addition to working two other jobs, so I probably gave this about two seconds of thought. Do you think you'd prefer to see it above or below? Not having the crescendo isn't an option. Thank you so much for your kind words, it means a lot!

@@DoctorJoelThomas When I run into this problem, I just write cresc. somewhere!

Glad you enjoyed it!❤️

hello, lol

Thank you!!!❤

Thank you so much!!!

Undoubtedly an influence, though not a direct quote. Where precisely, and which piece are you thinking? At the beginning I’m intentionally practicing awkward arpeggios (crossing 1 under 5), to try to improve fluency, but it’s not from any particular piece- all improvised on the spot. The warmup is as much a compositional warmup as a technical warmup.

Thanks!

Shank yoo

He might have. I didn't compose too much for him when I studied with him. The largest work I can remember was a wind quintet in three connected sections uncreatively entitled "Triptych." I think I asked him what the hardest standard ensemble to compose for was. He was right, it was very difficult to write effectively for it.

It reminded me of a “Wall Of Sound composition of his played by the MU orchestra.

@@stevethomas1638 Do you remember the title of the composition? He was a significant early pioneer in electronic music, probably under-appreciated. When I studied with him, he was pretty excited about C-Sound a complex music environment where you have to code to get anything to happen. Thankfully, he accepted Finale-notated projects.