Thursday, August 6, 2015

"Though You Are Far Away"

Backdated, archival post

[link to original on tumblr]

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Because I'm a completist, I listened to One Year a few days ago so that I listened to all of the Colin Blunstone albums I have within two weeks.  While listening to it, I remembered that at one point I'd figured out a few notes from the beginning of "Though You Are Far Away."  To-day I figured out the rest, so now I have the whole introduction.

I did this on piano because I don't own a harp, so it's more like the re-recorded version on On the Air Tonight (which I used as a template) than the original on One Year.

I feel like I should note the rubato in the original; it's not my being inconsistent in speed.  Also, I recorded the two hands separately because while I can sort of play the two parts at once, I can't play them together at that speed.