Thank you so much! :)

@@Learn_Listen_Love Thanks so much!

Thank you! It's Modartt's Pianoteq. It's great software, I use it to create alternate tunings as well!

Thank you so much! I'm using Modartt's Pianoteq, and really love it. I often use the NY Steinway D on there.

@@BradHines I should probably Google it, but it’s more fun to ask. 🙂 What is Ennuivox?

Thank you so much, Amie! 💚💚💚

I'm glad it helped you relax, and so sorry you're having such a hard time, sending 💙💙💙

Thank you! 💚

Thank you! I thoroughly enjoyed your "Traveling Harmonic Space" video just now. The music is lovely and your video is so satisfying to watch.

@@WhimsicallyMacabreMusic Hey, thanks! I should reupload that video without the rendering errors some day. 😅 Glad you like it none the less. I have a software project brewing that specifically aims to make that kind of music easier to make. Might also interest you. Are you on Discord by any chance?

@@andreyamakesmusic I didn't notice the rendering errors. Sounds interesting! I'm on Discord but I tend to forget it's there.

@@WhimsicallyMacabreMusic Right! What's your handle there? I don't wanna link the thing we're working on publicly until it's a bit more finished, but can share in DM. And to be clear, this is a free and open source project, I'm not trying to sell you anything. ;)

@@andreyamakesmusic I'm macabrelywhimsical over there. :)

Thank you so much for your comment, I'm happy when I can stretch the bounds of normal a little bit at a time! :) I've been working on a little tutorial based on this piece, so this is a nice reminder that I need to finish that project! I just made sheet music for this piece available here: buymeacoffee.com/stacyf/e/336626

@WhimsicallyMacabreMusic Thank you so much for making the sheet music available! I am currently working on the appropriate tuning for the e-piano. We (Otto & daughter) are looking forward to the tutorial, too! A week ago you were not known to us and now we can play your music. This is so great!

@@Ottopottato Thank you for your interest and support! 💚Are you tuning your e-piano in just intonation?

@@WhimsicallyMacabreMusic Yes! We found the Janus tuning in the description of your Khanda etude, which is also great. Thank you so much for the new tutorial 🖖

@@Ottopottato Ahhh cool, happy to hear you're experimenting with that tuning as well!

Thank you so much for your support, it means a lot!

I came here after hearing you on the Piano Puzzler last night (on the way home from my weekly go club) and was delighted to discover your focus on polyrhythms, which I've always enjoyed (I taught myself all the ones through 5 when I was in high school). I guess my method for learning a new one is different from yours. For 3 against 7, I would take their multiple (21), and starting with tapping both hands on the count of 0, I'd tap with the left hand for multiple of 3 (ie., 3, 6, 9, ...) and the right hand for every multiple of 7 (7, 14,...) until both hands tapped together when I reached 21 -- the left would tap seven times for every three the right tapped. I'd continue this and then slowly increase the speed until I had learned the sound of the pattern. If I wanted to learn the sound of seven beats in a 3-beat measure, I'd tap harder with my right hand to learn how to fit 7 inside of 3, and if I was working with a 7-beat measure, I'd tap harder with my left to learn how to fit 3 inside of 7. I'm not a great pianist (I play the cello), but I'm going to order your book. Keep up your good work!

@ Ah good to know that they aired that Piano Puzzler again! And I agree with your approach to polyrhythms, this video is only demonstrating one way, but in the book and when teaching, I try to present as many different approaches as I can think of since it’s helpful to be able to think about this (and dare I say almost everything?) in a few different ways, and different approaches click with different folks! Thank you again for your kind words and for your support! 💚

Hi Dan! Good to see your comment here, and I'm happy to hear all of this. I really appreciate your support, and will make more content! 💚

@@Chiara-j3u That is so beautiful, thank you so much for sharing this wonderful vision and message. It’s such a perfect affirmation of why music is so important and why I keep making it, and the idea that the stars can feel like home and that people with Aphantasia can still have visions all makes sense to me. 💙 Thank you. 💙 I’m aphantasic too, by the way!

@@WhimsicallyMacabreMusic 💜Thank YOU Stacy💜, so very, very much for your unique and beautiful music. Please, never give up composing and making music!!!! I’m sure, that’s your mission in this life! Even though - as a 60 year old BEGINNGER - I am eons away from being able to play this or any of your other extraordinary pieces, they do something incredible to me! So, I sincerely hope that the universe will send you the inspiration for (an)other beginner piece(s) like Morning Light - maybe even a songbook? 😊- that will transport me to other realms when I play it, like Morning Light does. That’s really great that you and I belong to that rare species - there are only 2 or 3% of the world population - who are aphantastic! It feels fantastic to know another person who is aphantastic, too! Do you also have visions? When I have one, I don't see an image in front of my inner eye, but it’s more like “feeling” it. It's as if my soul transforms this vision into an invisible image that I can feel. It's strange, but it allows me to describe the "image" in detail. Once again, THANK YOU for your existence and for carrying on with your music!!!! 🤗

@@Chiara-j3u This was lovely to read, thank you so much for your kind words and support! 💗💗💗I'm working on finishing a "Book of Spells" for structured improv, and needed this reminder to keep it accessible. I'm so glad you are enjoying Morning Light, and will see what else I can come up with that's similar! Alas, I don't think I have visions, but I do completely understand about "feeling" images rather than seeing them. I was recently on the "Discovering Your Mind" podcast on a couple different episodes-you might enjoy it since it's focused on Aphantasia and discussing many of the fun ways our brains work differently!

@@WhimsicallyMacabreMusic Dear Stacy, I mean every single word like I’ve written it!💜 I’ve listened to the podcast "Aphantasia and beyond", and I’ve enjoyed it a lot. Thank you so much for sharing your experiences, feelings and thoughts. It’s fascinating to see that there are so many parallels between the two of us. You are facial blind, too? I imagine that it must be hard especially for you not being able to recognize not even your loved ones out of context. If you really could come up with something similar like Morning Light it would be like receiving a Christmas and a birthday gift at once! 😁 You are about to finish a "Book of Spells"? I can't wait to buy it and just hope that there are a few pieces in there that I can play, even as a late beginner. By the way: if „A Spell for Focus”, which I already own, will be in the book, too, you should really consider renaming the piece "A Spell for Mesmerizing a Cat”, because that happened with one of my cats, when she listened to it! We were in the car on the way to the vet, which she hates and so normally she whines loudly the whole way. But this time I listened to A Spell for Focus and with the first notes my cat suddenly became very calm until we got to the vet. I have never experienced anything like this before! Your spells must really work!!!! Further proof that your music seems to be out of this world!🤩

@@Chiara-j3u I'm so glad to hear that you listened and enjoyed the podcast! The main issue with being faceblind is that I probably appear snobbish or rude when I don't recognize folks, but most of the time I can recognize people based on context and all sorts of other hints. A Spell for Focus is going to be in the book, from now on known between us as A Spell for Mesmerizing a Cat, hahaha!! 😍I love that story, and have two little grey cats over here who often "help" with my composing and recording.

Thank you! It’s fun creating new sound worlds in Pianoteq, and possible to do it without doing all that math! 😊

Aw, thanks for your nice comment! I'm always happy when I can demystify things that seem impossible, and I really like how you put it, like watching your own magic show... the importance of having trickery up your sleeves cannot be overstated! 😅

Thanks so much!

Excellent question! You can play the Gm chord there, and I recommend doing it to hear how it sounds compared to the G chord. The G chord is the dominant or V chord in the key of Cm, and there is nothing wrong with playing a Gm chord there. In most classical music it's just more common to play the major V chord in minor keys, mainly because it has a stronger pull back to the Cm i chord. To give an even longer explanation, if you play a Gm chord there, then you are sticking to the C natural minor scale throughout the exercise, C D Eb F G Ab Bb C, and that's a variation worth playing, you may even like it better! If you play a G chord, then you are using the C harmonic minor scale at that moment, which is C D Eb F G Ab B C. That B-natural raised 7th in the harmonic minor scale has a stronger pull to resolve up to C. I hope this makes sense!

@WhimsicallyMacabreMusic Thanks for this explanation...so only go to the harmonic scale for the V triad as it can sound better.

Thank you so much! 💚

So happy that you’re listening to these spidery songs, thank you! 🕸️🖤

Ha, thank you! I had maybe a bit too much fun with this one. 🕷️🌲

Thanks so much, Amie! 🖤🕸️🕷️

Thank you so much, Bill!

Thank you! I'll be glad to get the album done so I can start the next one! 😄Sounds like a fun tutorial on Elton John.

Thanks so much, Anabel! There are some really beautiful trails here. Hope you enjoy Michael Harrison’s piece. 💚

@@gioseffozarlino1107 Thanks so much! 🌳❤️🌳

@@WhimsicallyMacabreMusic Thanks to you, Stacy... for the precious pearls that you know how to make emerge from your sweet and kind soul. I wish you a wonderful evening. 🎶💗🎶

@@karlreque9893 Karl! ❤️ Hope you’re doing well! Thank you for listening.

@@JoeLinux2000 Thank you!

@@danutawosik2988 Thank you! ❤️❤️

Thank you, Anabel! 💚

Thank you for your encouragement! 💚

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Thank you! 💚

Thank you, Stoph! 😽

❤❤ Thank you!

@@WhimsicallyMacabreMusic I wish you a wonderful evening !!! 💓🌹💓