Rick & Dorothy play Rock-n-Roll Christmas at Orchard today! PLUS Exercise Hour

It's an hour of exercise to music and musical instruments today by Rick & Dorothy at Orchard where everyone has a rhythm instrument to inspire and motivate seniors to move to the music. After that, we have a birthday party for those with birthdays in November-- where we'll play our Rock-n-Roll Piano-Keyboard Hour concert. Again, my video camera has a bad connector-- but besides that the acoustics in the hall we play are bad. So I've got work to do in that department. For now, I'll repost a short playlist as a sample of our previous work there.

Rick & Dorothy play Madison Meadows today!

We'll be at Madison Meadows Retirement Residence today, playing Christmas songs to rock beats on our Yamaha keyboard and piano with some vocals thrown in. The Rick & Dorothy Piano Keyboard Hour continues on to Orchard in Mesa tomorrow. Video updates won't be possible this time around since I'm still working on replacing my broken camera-- although I might come up with a temporary solution. For now, here is a playlist of some of our previous work at Madison Meadows.

Dominican Republic music seems pointlessly quick.

Why is the following Dominican Republic music (first song on the playlist) so pointlessly fast? The only thing I can "hear" is the bass line. There are 2 chords. I guess it must have some value if you get "used" to it. It's hard to catch a heavy beat with the bongos. I'll try to reproduce something on piano. I wonder what it would be like if we slowed it down by just 30%? After the first video, I've added some slower versions of various dance and traditional music like "Bachata" (which has the word "Bach" in it, strangely enough). Along the way I look at food, politics and history as well-- selecting videos on youtube with good soundtracks always with the end in mind of doing something on piano to represent this music from "Barahona". Since looking at this island country in geography class in high school, I found it curious that it was split in two with the problematic Haiti. I'll include a look at the border with Haiti which should be interesting given the world's current border problems. You can let it roll or click an advance in the bottom left corner. There is a drop down menu on the top left.

Learn to play MyPillow.com

I noted the TV infomercial My Pillow has a catchy ditty that's worth learning. The lyrics are For the best night's sleep in the whole wide world, visit My Pillow dot com.

Rick played 6-8 am at x Black Friday after watching Walmart's Craig Roberts

I didn't do the Craig Roberts' schtick at x this morning at the front of the store as it was opened to a long line waiting to get in for Black Friday morning at 6 am... a COLD 6 am in Phoenix.... but I DID play and greet while doing standard Christmas songs in various arrangements on a Casio 88 key piano on sale for $299... with weighted keys. Most customers were interested in guitar and amp gear but I did talk to several piano types and pitched lessons. I have no recording but I noted a Walmart TV ad over the past few days featuring a guy doing roughly was I did this morning. In the interests of the etc. part of piano lessons etc, I've created a playlist of some of Craig Roberts' ads for Walmart followed by some of his other work.

Why us Turk music insipid, repetitive and uninteresting?

Note the lack of harmonic progression in the following Turk music. Sure there are some different melodic lines and there is virtuosity. But overall-- it's dull because there are no chords as we have in more advanced "Western" music most recently reinvented by Bach. The player of this stringed instrument-- a type of lute I think-- has frets that look like they can accomodate chords but he only hits one different chord at the very end. His name is Balil Erdogan, by the way, the same name as the son of President Erdogan of Turkey, Balil being on the front line of the revealing shoot down of the Russian jet over Syria a few days ago. It turns out that Turkey "is ISIS".

Consider videogame music-- Mario Bros.main theme

I have never been a fan of video game music. It's not "real music", is it? And yet it is, unfortunately, "popular" music. So I'll have to look at it. Here's a developing playlist of the Mario Brothers music that is now on the menu of my teaching schedule at Guitar Center as a result of a student there. The score book doesn't have chords but of course, chords are embedded here. It MAY be possible to turn this awful "music" around and make it into a sort of ragtime with latin combinations here and there. I'd have to slow it down a bit and play it in a viable piano style rather than simply copy it note for note as many youtubers do. In effect, I think it CAN be interpreted to be something viable. Time will tell. My video camera is fried at the moment so it'll likely be a few weeks before I upload my take on Mario Brothers. In the meantime, just hit play on this playlist and hear what I've selected as relevent listening for my listening friends.

Determine the chords & piano notes in the soundtrack for this documentary.

Note the piano chords & melody in the background of this documentary and duplicate them on your keyboard or piano. How do you think the music in the background is better than any old sound effects or of nothing at all? Would you say that the chords and melody create mystery? I'll search for other relevent documentaries about the mystery of water droplets and water memory and create a playlist of these documentaries so that we can compare the various soundtracks by various producers on this topic. I'll replicate the chords and notes and create a soundtrack by itself that you can replicate on your piano or keyboard. Why not consider making your own documentary and soundtrack. Far too many youtube video's these days have poor soundtracks consisting of noisy music that distracts from the message or that doesn't suit the message. Custome soundtracks that match the topic are best.

Alright Now song study & conversion to piano

Here is a playlist of Alright Now (Free, 1970) that will include ideas on how to play the song on piano and possibly sing it. I'll be adding to the playlist in coming days. I picked it up again on local Phoenix FM radio, 91.5 I think, where they play rock oldies-- on the way to work at Guitar Center. It has decent chord changes and is pretty much embedded in my own musical memory-- still stuck in the 1970's. I'm not sure if the message the lyrics convey are viable for me yet.


Here are the chords and lyrics...

ALL RIGHT NOW         FREE

A   Asus4   A
Dsus4  D    A

          A        D   A
There she stood in the street
Dsus4            D           A
Smiling from her head to her feet,
         A        D  A
I said 'Hey, what is this?'
             Dsus4        D         A
Now  baby, maybe she's in need of a kiss.

I said 'Hey, what's your name, baby,
maybe we can see things the same.
Now don't you wait or  hesitate,
Let's move before they raise the parking rate.'

Chorus
A         G              D         A
All right now Baby, it's all right now
A         G              D         A
All right now Baby, it's all right now

I took her home to my place
Watching ev'ry move on her face,
She said ''Look, what's your game baby
are you tryin' to put in shame?''

I said 'slow, don't go so fast,
don't you think that love can last?'
She said 'Love, Lord above,
now you're tryin' to trick me in love.'

Chorus

All right now baby, it's all right now
All right now baby, it's all right now

All Right Now by Free - Theorytab

Wayne Newton - watch for the keys. (concert)

Piano lessons ought to include structured understanding of the use of keys in concerts. All it takes is enjoying your own fave concerts-- and watching for "your" instrument with a critical eye. Watch for the keys in the following.

Rick & Dorothy's Piano-keyboard Holiday Hour for 2015-16.

We're starting work on our holiday hour to use at several shows we're booked for in December and New Year's Eve. I don't currently have a working video camera so I won't be posting any part of upcoming shows-- at least as far as the current situation goes. I might change that situation-- but I might not, as well. The critical elements of shows around Phoenix is to keep the car in shape, the house in shape, and to keep ourselves in shape-- through the traffic, the chaos and confusion, private teaching and Guitar Center functions. My overall plan is to wake up on January 2, 2016 after the "holiday challenge" is over.

For now, I'll simply start a playlist and see where it goes-- and then try to upload samples of our own work when I can. Last night, the GC band-- with Micheal on guitar, Brian on electric guitar, Zech, Mahlon and Brian on bass, Tim on drums and me on piano-- did a number of tunes for the Guitar Center VIP promotional sales event--- which included Here Comes Santa Clause. There were camera phones around-- I'll look later to see if anyone uploaded anything we did to Facebook or Youtube.

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Rick & Dorothy's Rhythm Band (For Retirement Residents)

We kicked off a new name plate today-- Rick and Dorothy's Rhythm Band-- without using the words "retirement" or "seniors" or "exercise"-- with the performance (not recorded since my video camera is out of commission)-- at Rio Del Vista in Sun City. Dorothy organized the performance and participants had fun moving to the music we provided using various musical rhythm instruments. Nothing like it is found anywhere else, at least anywhere on youtube I can find.

If YOU are a retirement activities director looking for a 1 hour timeslot for recreation for your residents,  Rick and Dorothy's Rhythm Band might be an interesting possibility for you-- if you're in the Phoenix area.

Compare camera-phones at Deep Purple 2014 Germany vs. Eagles of Death Metal 2015 France

Let's compare the apparent camera phone use at a Deep Purple concert in 2014 with the Eagles of Death Metal Concert in Paris in 2015. I'll post each video here in a playlist with Deep Purple's Smoke on the Water first and Eagles of Death Metal's Kiss Satan next. There isn't much video for the Eagles of Death Metal-- which is suspicious in and of itself. But more interestingly, of the video that IS available, there is no indication of lots of people holding up camera phones as you see at the Deep Purple concert.  

You can stop the playlist after the second short video of the Eagles of DM.

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STILLS of DEEP PURPLE doing SMOKE ON THE WATER in 1999 in Germany taken from the video above.... Notice the prominance of the camera phones.

Clearly you can see camera phones photographing camera phones in front of themselves as well as the stage and the silly and ill-advised and possibly dangerous horned devil sign. 

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Now here are still of the EODM concert in France that they say got hit.

It looks DARK in the audience, doesn't it? Yet the lights on stage show up! The camera phone lights should show up. 

What appear to be possible camera phone lights are actually instrument on-switches-- as you will plainly see if you review the video. At first I thought they might be camera phones but they're not. They're on stage lights-- not part of the audience. 

Where are the camera phones? Lots of Satanic horn signs-- but no camera phones!!!  This could be all there is to the audience as well since thousands did not pour out onto the streets in any photo or video I've seen... and I've reviewed dozens if not hundreds by now. 

Musicians under terror attack?

Despite cancellations of performances at music venues all over France due to the Paris attack, our own Guitar Center recital went ahead in downtown Phoenix at Hard Rock Cafe. I was not able to go because my car's front end axle went out and the car was in the shop overnight for repairs. I didn't have piano students in this particular recital. What does it say, however, when terrorists target "Cafes", concert halls and stadiums? Apparently we musicians are "soft targets".  How ridiculous is that?

Here's a video report on the response of musicians to being under attack. (The first video below is part of a 150 video playlist. You can click on the upper left corner to start it off at an earlier number to let it play forward).


On another line of related observation, I've heard and seen pairs of black military helicopters flying fast and very low over Phoenix over the past week the likes I've which I've never seen here before. In particular, last night at 10:30 pm, they flew over my house twice creating a thundering noise so loud it shocked me... even though I'm used to the usual medical, police and news choppers flying over. It's being talked about on social media. Could they be a prelude to another drill gone live? SEARCH GOOGLE FOR Re: Phoenix, Arizona Helicopters Everywhere

France post-terror-event piano player is David Martello, big time street musician.

After the fake terror event at at the Bataclan Theatre in France where Eagles of Death Metal were playing, and after all the fake dummy bodies were removed, a piano player played Imagine by John Lennon. At first it appeared to be a one-time stunt but the musician is actually an experienced street performer who manages to transport these amazing big portable pianos with huge wheels all over the world at a moment's notice... so there's more to him than meets the eye. Here's a playlist I created by wandering through the youtube postings for "David Martello". We begin the show with a fairly poor rendition of Imagine.

Hard Rock Cafe / x recital today.

I'll be at the Hard Rock Cafe later today to assist with our x / Peoria recital. I've assembled a playlist of recitals by other companies who apparently take advantage of Hard Rock's downtimes (less busy times) to run recitals.

Senior Exercise Ideas for Moving to Music Hour by Rick & Dorothy

We'll be doing another Moving to Music Exercise Hour on Friday and again on the last Monday of this month of November. We've added several new instruments and moves to our program. The following playlist takes a look at what others are doing. I won't be able to video demo our own program's new moves until I solve my video camera problem. In the meantime, take a look at the following playlist which I'll build over coming days. The playlist will advance automatically so you can leave it running in the background or you can use the arrows in the bottom left to scroll through them.

Canon video cam on fritz again... not sure I'll replace it.

Eagles of Death Metal & their Fake Paris Terror Event (nobody died)

 UPDATE-- I don't normally do this but this Paris Friday the 13th fake terror attack is abnormal itself. I've been following the mainstream narrative with the idea of keeping the band, Eagles of Death Metal in mind as I go along. I found a really wild youtube of "Anything Cept the Truth" that I now want to be the first tune in my playlist dealing with the event. Hope you'll rock on with me on this. Thanks. --Rick P.

PREVIOUS INTRO TO THIS POST
As of today,  Friday Nov 13 2015,  we have a new band becoming famous worldwide with the fake hoax Paris terror attacks. The following is a playlist that starts with  "Complexity" followed up by "Anything 'Cept the Truth" and videos demonstrating the fakery. If I get around to it, I might try to piano versions of those two tunes, the second being very relevent right now since that band, EODM, is participating in the hoax. 

PARODY MUSICIAN

As an aspiring parody musician who simply hijacks the great chord changes and melodies created by others hoping to not be sued for using what they put in my mind, I always look at the original lyrics to see what I can do to permute, mutate and mutilate the original meanings to suit my own ends. In this case, the Eagles of Death Metal's tune "Anything Cept the Truth" applies to Paris terror attack hoax but the original lyrics have to do with a boy-girl relationship. I'll turn it into a citizen vs. the NWO world government protest song simply by stealing suits me and changing what doesn't suit me.

All the copyright laws promoted by "world citizens" hoping to suppress humans vs. the gods are being challanged here. I expect trouble. But then-- trouble was expecting me, I would think. It works both ways, right? Original lyrics first.

 EAGLES OF DEATH METAL LYRICS

 Ask me why I came so late
Ask me why I made you wait
Here's a story that you ought to know I had a little fight,
I was dancing at a go-go
 I'll tell you anything, baby, except the truth
 I'll tell you anything, baby, except the truth
I've got nothing but everything to prove
I never smile when I tell a lie
 I swear the only one tonight
 Ask me if I can be true
 Ask me where I'm going to I say I love you,
 but you ought to know I only love the night and
I always gots to go-go
 I'll tell you anything, baby, except the truth

 Now for my changes....
 EAGLES OF DEATH METAL LYRICS

 Ask me why I came so late
Ask me why I made you wait
Here's a story that you ought to know I got a little bribe,
 I was at the Belaclava
I'll tell you anything, media, except the truth
 I'll tell you anything, media,
 except the truth
 I've got nothing but everything to prove
 I never smile when I tell a lie
 I swear the only one tonight
Ask me if I can be true
Ask me where I'm going to
 I say what they they want me to, but you ought to know
 I only believe the truth, and I always gots to go-go
 I'll tell you anything, baby, except the truth


Now I'll deal with Complexity. Here are the original lyrics...

"Complexity"

You didn't want to scratch but then you got the itch
You only wanted Stoa but you got the witch
You know you're always paying for the shit that's free
It's not easy with this complexity

I tried to make it easy never stop the flow
Just keep between simple let a little skin show
My socks and underwear I like to keep them clean
It's so easy without complexity

You say you want to finish but you never start
You want to get it finished but you just try hard
It don't take nothing fancy it's just ABC's
It so easy without complexity

You want the good stuff
You want the big hit
Found out it's simple come on and take it
But if you close your eyes then you won't see
That it's easier without complexity

To broke...

I tried to make it easy never stop the flow
Just keep between simple let a little skin show
My socks and underwear I like to keep them clean
It's so easy without complexity

You want the good stuff
You want the big hit
Found out it's simple come on and take it
But if you close your eyes then you won't see
That it's easier without complexity

You want the good stuff
You want the big hit
Found out it's simple come on and take it
But if you close your eyes then you won't see
That it's easier without complexity



Now I'll permutate them... to suit my own anti NWO political ends...


"Complexity"

You didn't want to scratch but then you got the itch
You didn't want the NeWO but then you its witch
You know you're always paying for all the stuff that's free
It's not easy with this complexity

I tried to make it easy to never stop the flow
Just keep quiet and never stop the show
My socks and underwear I like to keep them clean
It's so easy without complexity

You say you want to finish but you never start
You want to get it finished but you just try hard
It don't take nothing fancy it's just ABC's
It so easy without complexity

You want the good stuff
You want the big hit
Found out it's simple come on and take it
But if you close your eyes then you won't see
That it's easier without complexity

To broke...

I tried to make it easy never stop the flow
Just keep between simple let a little skin show
My socks and underwear I like to keep them clean
It's so easy without complexity

You want the good stuff
You want the big hit
Found out it's simple come on and take it
But if you close your eyes then you won't see
That it's easier without complexity

You want the good stuff
You want the big hit
Found out it's simple come on and take it
But if you close your eyes then you won't see
That it's easier without complexity

Rick & Dorothy play Vista del Rio today!

Half of today's concert will be tunes from the 1960's played as a duo with Dorothy on keyboard and Rick on piano-- and the other half will feature Dorothy on the Casio piano ensemble.  We set up in the lobby seen below with chairs from the activity room. Turnouts at Vista del Rio are always great. 

Chord progressions [playlist]

There are 4 videos in the following playlist. Roman numerals are not referred to however. Your task is to watch, listen, and then document the chord progressions for our next Piano / Keyboard MeetUp in Phoenix at my OpenOffice session at Guitar Center tonight at 6 pm. --Rick P.

Piano keys & score for Maxwell's Silver Hammer, Ben Carson's theme song.

The following offers insight to piano students on how the music looks on a score as the keys are being played. The video is part of my playlist that mocks Ben Carson for his claim / confession that he would attack people with rocks, baseball bats, bricks and... hammers. I'm still putting the lyrics together for that parody. 

Tribute song to Ben Carson's Hammer - Beatles' "Maxwell's Silver Hammer".

I agree with Alex Jones, Donald Trump, Youtube published Minister Manning and others who say that Ben Carson's presidential bid is finished. We can nail this case closed with the old Beatles' tune "Maxwell's Silver Hammer". Listen now, and mentally replace Maxwell with Carson-- and you'll hear what my next parody song might be.  Note that in the Beatles' lyrics, Maxwell Edison was majoring in medicine-- like Ben Carson. What a coincidence. (First, listen to Carson himself on Chuck Todd's Meet the Press). THE FOLLOWING VIDEO IS THE FIRST OF MANY IN A PLAYLIST... You can easily advance to the "next" video by clicking on "next" in the bottom left corner. I'll be adding to this playlist in coming days... or I may slightly edit it. I've included a few parody songs by famous PBS humorist Mark Russell and Parody creator Weird Al Yakovich to set the frame of reference for creating musical parodies in general. This too is a piano lesson. 

Here is a google search on the terms "ben carson" and "maxwell's silver hammer". It's not just me apparently, who sees the connection.
"ben carson" "maxwell's silver hammer" - Google Search

I like to think of this tune as Ben Carson's swan song. I'll always remember it as such.

Maxwell s Silver Hammer chords
The Beatles *

D                   B7
Joan was quizzical, studied pataphysical
Em
Science in the home
A7
Late nights all alone with a test tube
D         A
Ohh-oh-oh-oh...
D              B7 
Maxwell Edison majoring in medicine
Em
Calls her on the phone
A7
"Can I take you out to the pictures
D         A
Joa-oa-oa-oan?"
E7 
But as she's getting ready to go
  A7
A knock comes on the door...

D 
Bang, bang, Maxwell's silver hammer
     E7
Came down upon her head
A7
Clang, clang, Maxwell's silver hammer
     Em        A7      D    A
Made sure that she was dead
[ Tab from: http://www.guitaretab.com/b/beatles/273819.html ]
D                    B7
Back in school again Maxwell plays the fool again
Em
Teacher gets annoyed 
A7                             D         A
Wishing to avoid an unpleasant sce-e-e-ene
D                     B7
She tells Max to stay when the class has gone away
Em
So he waits behind
A7                              D      A
Writing 50 times "I must not be so-o-o-oo..."
E7
But when she turns her back on the boy
   A7
He creeps up from behind

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Bang, bang, Maxwell's silver hammer
     E7
Came down upon her head
A7
Clang, clang, Maxwell's silver hammer
     Em        A7      D    A
Made sure that she was dead

P.C. Thirty-One said "we caught a dirty one"
Maxwell stands alone
Painting testimonial pictures ohh-oh-oh-oh
Rose and Valerie screaming from the gallery
Say he must go free (Maxwell must go free)
The judge does not agree and he tells them so-o-o-oo
But as the words are leaving his lips
A noise comes from behind

D 
Bang, bang, Maxwell's silver hammer
     E7
Came down upon her head
A7
Clang, clang, Maxwell's silver hammer
     Em        A7     D    A
Made sure that he was dead

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Rick's Playlist: Rick does Route 66

I do not recommend playing/singing and drinking beer. However, that does not negate my recommendation of Indian IPA beer in moderation while preparing and eating dinner while working with the piano and video. Here I am on my 6th beer of Sunday-- a holy day of beer drinking -- taking a crack at Route 66 using a binaural microphone head. My video is followed up by a selection of my own selection of some favorite Route 66 Youtube videos in a playlist that you can simply let rip if you like-- or advance using the little arrows on the bottom left.

Guitar demo - Schecter hellraiser II

I've done probably thousands of piano and keyboard demonstrations over the years but never a guitar demo. I find this particular demo of Schecter guitar on Guitar Center's DirectTV cable channel nicely done. Of course, there are plenty "like" it but being new to guitar demos, I see a lot of things done "right" here in terms of feature and benefit selling-- Rick P

3D audio PARADE St.Patrick's Day NYC (Playlist 74-100)

Put your headphones on and listen to the 3D binaural St. Patrick's Day Parade in 2014-- then click forward through the next 25 binuaral youtubes I installed on this playlist. 

Skype'd piano lesson - scale chords

Skype's been around for awhile but I haven't used it myself. I think it's probably going to be possible to use Skype to do piano lessons realistically. The recordings now on Youtube, of Skype'd lessons, are useful to consider. Here's an 8 min. segment. This is much more engaging than typical instruction videos because they're live interactions and have a different kind of energy about them in terms of a real life conversation-- rather than a prepared script.

My half-baked effort to improve sound quality on my own recordings.

I don't have a stereo input into my old Canon video camera-- just a monophonic mic jack. So any effort I make to use a styrofoam head with mics on either side for a binaural 3D recording is going to be lacking in desired results. However-- that said-- it seems to me that with headphones, the nature of the sound coming into the camera has changed for the better anyway, given the styrofoam head set up. Here are several video clips I've done where I've tested the results so far.

3D binaural audio + 3D visual [Use headphones AND 3d red/blue glasses]

You Make Me Feel So Young recorded in a small room in binaural sound and stereo video....

3D binaural piano/vocal - Flavia Krystael - [USE HEADPHONES]

I'm not sure the music makes much sense and the voice gets buried in piano but it's interesting to wear headphones and listen to what a 3D binaural mic can do. There's potential here. With all the audio improvements over the years from hi-fi, to stereo, quad, walkmans, mp4, 432 hz from 440 etc., this is another step. There's still much work to be done of course-- but give this a try and see if it doesn't impress you with an advance over ordinary stereo.

Parade in 3D binaural sound (St. Patrick's Day NYC 2014) - Use Headphones

3D binaural campfire - 1 hr - HEADPHONES REQUIRED

3D binaural dog-mush ride in Yukon

Wear headphones.

Malorca, Spain train tour in 3D binaural sound with image stabilized GoPro

Wear headphones to get the 3D effect.

Lessons - beginner - hand position

Enter Rick's 3D binaural playlist choice samples from youtube at #40/46 [Headphones]

I've compiled 46 choice examples of 3D binaural videos from others posting to Youtube. The playlist should play by rotating around to #1 again, in my list, after the current post in this blog, #40 plays through to #46.  If it doesn't, try adjusting your browser's or Youtube's continuous play button in the top right corner. Or manually advance the playlist by selecting the playlist button on the bottom right. I'm still now sure how to make playlists advance automatically, myself. Sometimes mine just do and sometimes they don't. In any case, I've posted an entry point at #40 of 46 so far in my select 3D binaural audio youtube videos starting with Jeffery Anderson's excellent demonstration compilation.

Jazz club sample of 3D-binaural sound

Radio play in 3D binaural audio works! [USE HEADPHONES]

I was a big fan of E.G. Marshall's radio plays back in the 1970's. Subsequently, I discovered them all online and have reviewed several of them. CBC radio theater which was just down the street from my apartment in Toronto in the 1980's used to do radio plays as well. In the 1990's I was in the habit of listening to the radio plays by the midwesterner Garrison Keeler. Radio plays demand you have your eyes shut and create scenese in your mind's eye based on sound alone. The 3D binaural audio technique takes the experience a whole generation beyond "ordinary stereophonic" sound. Try this 5 minute play using headphones and see what you think. It was created by "PureThoughtMedia" 4 years ago and they've produced nothing since then.

Live 3D binaural ASMR Beethoven & more classical 3D recorded by Stefano Arciero

It took a long time for me to find good classical works recorded using 3D binaural but here is a good source... Setfano Arciero. We'll start with a Beethoven work.


Source: 
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZgodipdXU6bzxvdyNmL5-w

3D binaural audio experiment - Fly Me to the Moon - (use headphones)

Due to my cam not having stereo inputs, the following experiment didn't work too well but nonetheless, I think I've captured better sound than without the homemade binaural mic.

3D binaural grand piano demo & explanation by Matt Lein

Times Square 3D binaural audio [headphones]

Virtual 3D Binaural audio fireworks (use headphones)

This clip of binaural audio virtual fireworks impressed me. Believe it or not, this too is a piano lesson. That's why I included "etc." in my blog title.

Drum lesson [USE HEADPHONES]

Given the lack of rhythmic skill of piano students, and given Guitar Center's need to sell drum kits, I think it's imperative that those with an interest in music education view videos like the following made with 3D binaural mics. What a great sales tool!

[HEADPHONES REQ'd] Train crossing by Jeff Anderson

As I continue to explore the world of 3D binaural, a technology that was available over 100 years ago, I find myself becoming more conscious of the sound around me in real-space. It's quite pronounced-- to the degree that I thought it would be a good idea to mention it here in this blog. I teach piano lessons and one of the most difficult things to get students to understand is the value, musically speaking, of different tones and voices, and different harmonies. Sometimes it seems I'm teaching brick walls because students don't respond to sounds the way I think they ought to-- if they're going to learn to play music that is. It's beginning to appear to me that, through the use of binaural 3D audio recordings, I might perhaps be able to "raise the awareness" of students-- to "sound" and "sound combinations". After all, music is simply organized patterns of sound, isn't it? Enough on that-- listen to Jeff's train. Wear headphones. Don't cross the tracks!

[USE HEADPHONES] Jeff Anderson's favorite 3D binaural vignettes.

I've been exploring 3D binaural sound via youtube posts for a few days now and I've reviewed hundreds of google / youtube results and I've watched/listened to perhaps well over a hundred different efforts to demonstrate this technology. I'm impressed with the collection put together by one Jeff Anderson in the following video. He has escaped the seemingly moronic "whispering" videos and he never uses foul language-- which ruins the video for the purpose of demonstrating here on my own blog. Jeff reviews 8 of his favorite 3D binaural applications in the following, ending with a wonderful thunderstorm. You MUST use headphones.

[USE HEADPHONES] Binaural 3D mic from 3Diosound.com works nice.

I'm currently trying to assemble my own 3D mic for an old non-stereo Canon camcorder as can be seen a few posts back from this one. I'm also currently exploring all the various 3D binaural mics out there-- the following video was made with a www.3Diosound.com mic. The amount of music and conversation video out there using 3D binaural is poor right now so the following find was a gem.

[talk-show] Reincarnation with Rob Schwartz

At PianoLessonsEtc, I'm attempting to create a wider area of interest with the "Etcetera" element that is a kind of background for my musical efforts. In that regard, I'm playing with posting movies, talk shows and other types of youtube media to this blog that is at least consistent with piano-lessons in a way. According to Schwartz, below, we CHOSE who we're going to be on this plane. In my case, the piano would obviously been part of my life-plan. This raises a lot of interesting angles, biographically speaking but those comments are for another post. For now, here is Robert Schwartz youtube playlist.

3D Binaural recording experiment-- [USE HEADPHONES] Dorothy "Kansas City", Rick "Pianoman"

On the first video, I didn't get the separation I wanted in this experiment using 2 mics pointing in opposite directions about a head width apart. Still, it's the first time I've used 2 mics in awhile. Further, we're now going to use the Casio with split keyboard in near future shows. Dorothy has split the piano keyboard so bass is on the left hand. I set the video for 3d but it didn't come out because I recorded using only one lens. I'm not sure how to do 3D video yet. The red/green 3d overlay gives our experiment an experimental look. PLEASE BE SURE TO USE HEADPHONES TO GET THE BINAURAL EFFECT I'VE TRIED TO CREATE. The second video in this playlist is a short sample of my playing using a slightly updated styrofoam head with plastic bottle "ears". I think the sound is better indeed but it's nowhere near the professional binaural effect. Still, it's a start.

Turn any table into a drum kit?

3D sound with binaural astral projection [Paul Santini]

Visual & Audio 3D Binaural outdoor piano [USE HEADPHONES & 3D Glasses]

Binaural recordings [*USE HEADPHONES] - Campfires & Constellations