Pianissimo: everything music

the banner for this page is my piano

a painter paints pictures on canvas
but musicians paint their pictures
on silence Leopold Stokowski

me on the grand in concert

Song of the Moment

My son, composer and playing all instruments, compiled and digitally processed by Jeremy.

I play the piano/keyboard from memory, also guitar, ukulele and organ. And the fool. I love music with great base and rhythm and emotion, melodic anthemic stuff. This of course includes rock. We had a piano in my family forever, had a singer and violinist for a mother, and I gravitated to that big black upright in the lounge room, when I'd learnt to climb piano stools that is. In my teens I learned violin, singing, and graduated to Grade 6 at the Conservatorium of Music. I heard a girl at High School play the guitar and decided then and there I had to teach myself. And so I sang and played guitar harmonising on stage - folk tunes. Those were the days of records - put them on the Grundig, stick your head under the player to get the most base, and totally freak out. As long as the parents weren't home, or the rest of the family. That of course was many decades ago now.

At 19 I wrote a tune to scripture in Papua New Guinea and received royalties for many years. The song went on records, music books, sheet music. I became pianist for a number of churches over the years and travelled around Australia and overseas. My first love is still Black Gospel after hearing Andraé Crouch in concert, and Second Chapter of Acts with their glorious harmonies. I also had a favourite song "Afternoon Delight" by Starland Vocal Band. Of course no idea when I was young what it was about .... but the harmonies! Here's my Fave Music From My Youth playlist.

Music brings me to ecstasy, makes me forget my troubles, opens up expanses of unimaginable beauty, fills my heart to bursting. My desire is to show others a world where all is forgotten except this moment.

AUGUST 2018
Bought myself a midi interface. And what I'm enjoying so much is spontaneously going to the piano to play up a storm with a song, then setting up the midi and recording for youtube. Truth be told though, there's nothing like the piano. I'm still, and forever will be, a purist at heart. Someone give me a grand please (piano) !

My music is up on youtube and Instagram.

My latest piano video:

"Find the POSITIVITY in
your SENSITIVITY"
© Hillie

Phil Driscoll has been one of my favourite singers and trumpeters for many years. This video shows him at his finest. What an inspiration and masterful musician!

Live your life and document it with songs

Some of my favourite songs:

Musicians:

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<---- I grew up with black music - Andraé Crouch, The Disciples, Danniebelle Hall, Aretha Franklin. So this was a good find. piano+harmony+base=amazing!