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America The Beautiful jazz piano solo


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This is a great song, and it's one that I teach to my kids at school. Lots of great chord changes, and opportunities for reharmonization.

I'm using the piano plug-in Synthogy Ivory, and the setting is Jazz C7 with PCM Pad.

Since Ivory does not work for me right now in GB, I have found a work-around to get my old GB piano files re-recorded with Ivory. I connected a cable with 1/8" stereo mini-plugs on both sides to my Mac's headphone jack and the "audio-in" jack. Then I opened up Sound Studio (it apparently came built-in with my new eMac last summer) and set the input to "line-in." And I pushed "record" on Sound Studio and "play" in GB, and viola, I am recording my piano parts from GB with Ivory to my hard drive via SoundStudio. I tried this with DP, but I got a few clicks now and then. I get a few clicks with SoundStudio, but not as many. Then I take the finished file(s) (some with clicks in various places) and piece together one file with no clicks.

A really weird work-around, but it worked (this time, at least.)

The flag/USA image is from AppleWorks ClipArt.
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Uploaded: Apr 18, 2005 - 01:51:03 AM
Last Updated: Apr 17, 2005 - 05:53:11 PM Last Played: Nov 07, 2009 - 02:04:41 PM
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Tom Atwood said 1666 days ago (April 18th, 2005)
(America the) Beautiful jazz piano solo
This song always gets me. Lovely work.
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TobinMueller said 1666 days ago (April 18th, 2005)
Layered mellowness
Another well chosen melody and excellent arrangement.
The layered pad is wonderfully mellow, adding a very
pleasing tone; however, Ivory's inability to control the pad
creates moments when the pad pops out a bit, but this
also adds to the expressiveness. Again, absolutely
delightful track and wonderful playing.
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Magritte said 1663 days ago (April 22nd, 2005)
Simple and moving.
I think this song should be our national anthem. Preferably in this arrangement.
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aclarke said 1662 days ago (April 22nd, 2005)
Beautiful is right!
Wonderful arrangement! No criticism at all.
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Anonymous said 1649 days ago (May 5th, 2005)
lovely
this arrangement has been executed with great taste and style ... very convincing piano sound ... wish i had it ... love the ending chord especially ...
Dadai.2 said 129 days ago (July 3rd, 2009)
love this rendition...

and thankful for those founding patriots that set a course for liberty, the rule of law, and self-government. May the experiment continue in that inspired tradition.

thanks John.
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Rocha Malhada said 128 days ago (July 4th, 2009)
thanks
for pointing me here -

God bless you, John

. - Harold
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awigze said 128 days ago (July 4th, 2009)
America
Gotta love her!
Always love this song
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Char said 128 days ago (July 4th, 2009)
Thanks, John,
for pointing me here. I will send it on. Wonderful playing. Happy Fourth of July. It is the Best Country in the world!
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Name: John Stebbe
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I am a public elementary school music teacher in Indianapolis. I also direct the children's choirs at our church. I love to play piano. I play solo piano jobs around town, and also lead a jazz trio (piano, bass, drums). I was born in 1959. ... [see more]

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