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Thanks Christian! Much appreciated, especially from a man of your talents.

Thanks for helping us out Christian!!!

You tell the truth!

Thank you!

Sure! I pieced it together from a couple arrangements I liked. I can send it your way if you give me an email or some other way to send it.

@@rickrocketts183 Wow, they don't let you put an email on comments. I've tried and tried. When I come back to see and it's not there.

@@leslielarsonandrusoh, sorry, I would have sent the pdf to you. I never even got notified you tried to reply. I’m happy to send it if we can find a way

@@rickrocketts183See and I tried again and it’s gone! I left spaces inbetween words and spelled at instead of using the symbol. I have a song I can send to you too. It’s Manhattan Serenade. I’ve shared my sheets with many people and they gave me their email. Have you heard that song before?

I don’t know that tune but I’ll check it out. I just had an idea: since we’re both students of Christian Fuchs, let’s both send him an email and ask him to connect us. Voila!

Thank you, Merry Christmas to you too!

Thanks! Glad you liked it. Classic cool tune.

Best impression of a flugelhorn I could muster.

Thanks!

You’re the best!

Thank you!

I’ve yet to discover the underground jazz scene here

I know, he was such a cool dog…

Thank you! Glad you liked it

Thanks!

Thanks! Her arrangements are definitely challenging from a technical perspective. Usually I read music as I play along but I found I had to memorize some or all of her pieces so I could look at my hands. Otherwise I just couldn’t find the notes by feel because of the jumps.

Hey thanks Kent, you really honor me with that comment. It’s a loose transcription from a Hal Leonard book. Really beautiful tune.

Thanks!

Thanks!

Thanks man! That solo took a bunch of practice, glad you appreciated it.

Thanks! Getting to play on a Steinway was very cool too.

Thanks Kent! It’s been such a great experience learning from you. First piano lessons I’ve taken in 30 years.

Thanks sweetie.

I got it from Katherine Cordova, who arranged it. Go to her channel and she has a link to her store. Also check out her performance of this. She plays a suite of 4 Succession tunes in one take flawlessly. Much higher production quality than mine, but no dogs.

@@rickrocketts183 Oh wow. Thank you.

Thank you. The piano is 110 years old and I tune every six months and don't want to pay for more than that. I post tunes anyway even if it's starting to drift. Maybe I just hit a wrong note too? I'm no pro.

@@rickrocketts183 , 100 y.o. piano sounds very special. I’ve never had such an experience. I play the piano a bit, after graduating from musical school🎹 . Probably it was the wrong note, right. What are your dogs’ favourite pieces? What do they say?🐕

@@EnglishInLifeWithKatewell, tough to say for sure but the white one definitely got fired up in At Last and Oh Happy Day. Probably a couple others too but I can’t recall exactly. Maybe Blueberry Hill she messed with my left hand in the beginning. Sometimes she wants a bunch of pets when I’m playing.

Thank you!

Haha, if only!

Glad you liked it. And yes, it falls out of tune. The piano was built in 1915 and I pay for a tuning every 6 months. Since I play it continuously, some notes start to stick out near the next tuning.

Thank you! I got the arrangement from Katherine Cordova. The full arrangement is a suite with 4 pieces, and she plays them all in one take, no obvious errors. Pretty impressive, you may want to see it.

@@rickrocketts183 thank you, sir! :)

And so funny how your white dog barks at then end 🙂

I know! She gets all fired up sometimes.

Hey thanks, that’s a great compliment. The white dog acts up in a bunch of my videos. The other dog sleeps. Check out Oh Happy Day as an example.

@@rickrocketts183 You're welcome. And thanks, I'll check it out!

Thank you! Are you working on this same arrangement by Katherine Cordova or another one?

Thanks! I listened to a few recordings but didn’t realize that the arrangement i have is pretty faithful to the one you just pointed out. I just figured the arranger wrote a solo inspired by Evans. So i see what you mean, he def played it more laid back. I was just interpreting notes on the page and trying to make the whole thing flow from straight to swing back to straight and played it a lot of ways until i generally settled on that way. I’d say I would have approached it differently if I’d heard that recording first though.

Congratulations!

Thanks!

Hey thanks, that’s super nice of you to say.

I appreciate your kind words.