Love Letters (Straight From Your Heart). Arranged for solo piano, with music sheet.

[@emilyj2784]

I started playing this yesterday and have made great progress. It was like a dream to be playing such a piece in the middle of the night, when the world is asleep. Thank you again for such a beautiful arrangement!

[@rupertaustin]

Glad it is giving you pleasure to practise playing it. It is one of my favourites, and it always reminds me of the David Lynch film "Blue Velvet" where it featured in some typically weird David Lynch scenes (music start at about 1 min 20 s but have a look from the start): kzbin.info/www/bejne/baeli6mni9Bghbc

[@adrianm.853]

Your work is just amazing! Thanks for sharing with us.

[@Woodcut60]

All your arrangements are such a delight. This one is no exception. Wonderful.

[@rupertaustin]

Many thanks for your kind comment

[@juanpablogutierrezblanco3811]

This is why i love jazz.

[@Robert-ts2ef]

Brilliant again Rupert. Thanks for uploading.

[@rupertaustin]

Thanks. Glad you like it.

[@andreyarmenioatienza1956]

You're so underrated, i love your arrangements, hope to play them soon when i learn them!

[@rupertaustin]

Thanks for your kind comment. I hope you enjoy playing them!

[@geraldgoodii2839]

Thanks again, Rupert, for this lovely arrangement. I play this one and On a Clear Day everyday! Hello from Jerry in Chicago.

[@rupertaustin]

Hi Gerald. Lovely to hear that you get continued enjoyment from those two pieces.

[@owepofjienoqpithfvn]

Every songs that you’ve arranged are jewels thanks for the sheets definitely buying them for my sweetheart

[@rupertaustin]

Thanks for your kind comment, and thanks for any purchases you make.

[@Suzanne0219]

This is song is so beautiful !! Your arrangement is so gorgeous !!! It makes me feel like “I’m confessing to my crush, and it’s just so happened that I am my crush’s crush too “ So lovely !! ❤️

[@rupertaustin]

Thank you for your thoughtful comment. Really glad you like it and it gives you those feelings

[@mariateresita3852]

@@rupertaustin ❤️.

[@pianoman0609]

Beautiful and sensitive arrangement!

[@rupertaustin]

Glad you like it!

[@fraterdeusestveritas2022]

ok im gonna learn this one and play it to my wife. It's a really beautiful arrangement. Thanks Rupert, you da man.

[@javierarderiust]

Thank you very much for sharing the scores! awesome!!!

[@maxrom60]

So tender and sweet! Bravo!

[@mauricecaldwell6941]

Love this got to perform it a few times, the original is one the most spooky love songs ever

[@rupertaustin]

Glad you like it. Yes, it is a spooky song. As a teenager I got to know it from this very weird sequence from David Lynch's Blue Velvet, which increases the spookiness a lot: kzbin.info/www/bejne/baeli6mni9Bghbc

[@thekettletbh]

pop off king👑👑👑👑 i love this so much

[@rupertaustin]

Great to hear that. It is one of my favourites actually.

[@Pythonaria]

Beautiful arrangement. Thank you.

[@felixmendelssohn8814]

Thank you so much for the arrangement and sheet music mate

[@rupertaustin]

You're welcome. glad you like it

[@paolofabbroni2707]

Eccellente 🎹❤️🎼🎹❤️🎼❤️🎹

[@pandurendradjaja8994]

This is lovely!

[@eddierfernandofernandez9764]

Thanks, very beatifull

[@TheBroadcastStudio365]

Great

[@jeffreyaltman9994]

Thanks!

[@pianomaillady5147]

amazing 😍 thank you 🎹🎶

[@ddss7272]

Most beautiful song ever. I'm trying to learn it on the piano and "parts" (I don't know how to say it in English) 29 through 36 just kill me

[@rupertaustin]

Glad you are enjoying it. Good luck with your hard work on bars / measures (=parts) 29 to 36.

[@momentswithrussell]

I feel like k dramas OST's and ballads are all based from this piece.

[@paulallenMacca]

Very Nice Have you ever played the Song When I Take My Sugar To Tea or Sweet Lorraine.

[@2628064379]

I really enjoyed this arrangement. I don't play piano. When I looked at ordering this tune, most versions of it started at your measure 13. Measures 5 through 12 were not in the publications. Listening to Diana Krall perform this tune, she does measures 5 through 12 and has lyrics to go with these measures. Is this some sort of introduction that is left out in standard stock publications, does this section have a formal name (introduction), and where does someone go to get the complete printed song? I enjoyed your performance very much.

[@rupertaustin]

Nice to hear that you enjoyed this. Probably my favourite song of all time and the first thing I ever uploaded to KZbin. The famous Ketty Lester version from 1961 omitted that lovely introduction section (5 through 12 in my version) that you mention, but Nat King Cole's earlier 1957 version did include it: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iaqXm3eqa8eefZo And Diana Krall wisely included it also, as you noticed. I seem to recall that section was not notated in any lead sheet that I worked from when writing my arrangement so I figured it out by ear from Kraal's recording. I guess that since Ketty Lester omitted it, that section is not so well known and standard publications of the song don't bother to include it. Shame.

[@0192yyyy]

Nice play Austin.could I know what tools are you using for recording the piano?for example :type of capable mixers?or in studio with post production ?the quality of sound I really like it thank you !

[@rupertaustin]

I use a Yamaha AvantGrand N1 keyboard linked to Sythogy Ivory II Steinway American Concert D (PC version) sampled piano library. I also use FabFiler Pro-R reverb.

[@j.gonzalez1146]

👏

[@claricemouraopontes7291]

Não consigo comprar The lead sheet...autuum leaves,one item...

[@mishfik]

beaut

[@danthezen]

02:48

[@rupertaustin]

Music sheet available from SheetMusicPlus: www.sheetmusicplus.com/publishers/rupert-austin-sheet-music/3017008?isPLP=1&Ns=displayName&recsPerPage=50& More of my piano arrangements here: kzbin.infovideos

[@jaannnneeee]

can i find this on any platforms?

[@rupertaustin]

@@jaannnneeee It is only on KZbin

[@rueditamartinez5086]

Es de Chopin?

[@dalcassian8351]

No es. Lyricos de Edward Heyman musica de Victor Young

[@_sa3_]

I think this is my favorite at the moment (I like it even more than "Over the Rainbow"). Chords [C13(#11)] in bars 26 and 42 are faboulous. My Lord… But, unfortunately, fingering is not indicated in the sheet music. Despite the fact that in general the piece looks simple, there are problems of fingering, which is puzzling, especially if one try to play legato and hold all long notes in polyphonic moments. I think that fingering in this case is even more important for classical musicians who are used to taking literally what is written in sheet music. And in jazz works, the interpretation may be more free. And fingering could show it. By the way, I'm not sure on audio, in the first bar in the right hand do you really play F natural (half note) as it written, or F# (G♭).

[@rupertaustin]

Really glad you like this one. Love Letters has always been a favourite song of mine since I first heard it in the David Lynch file "Blue Velvet". I have to admit that the way I have written some of the within-hand voices is not always consistent. Sometimes it literally means hold down the keys for notated duration (eg RH in bar 15, RH in bar 21), sometimes, it means hold down the keys if you have a big hand (eg LH in 2nd half of bar 18, and LH in 2nd half of bar 26), and sometimes it is physically impossible to hold down the keys as notated and it is asking the notes to be sustained by the right pedal (eg LH in first half of bars 17 and 25, LH in bar 42, LH in bar 46). On the whole just remember that this is not Beethoven: what I have recorded is a rough guide, liberties can be taken, notes can be added or removed, tempo can be changed according to your taste, just enjoy building your own interpretation and making it sound beautiful. Regarding first bar, I am pretty sure I played the half-note F natural in RH. If not, it is definitely creates a nice rich sound (9th of the Ebm9 chord) so it is best to include it.

[@_sa3_]

@@rupertaustin Thanks for the detailed answer. I forgot to say that I first heard this song only recently on your channel (these were the last days when one could download sheet music from your link in GDrive). That is, more recently. Then, of course, I listened to the original classic versions performed by Ketty Lester (including your link to the movie “Blue Velvet”, which you gave before to another person in a comment), Elvis Presley, and also a beautiful orchestral version: watch?v=PN8So88EDUc - About voicing and pedaling I understand. The examples that you gave are not the most difficult to understand and implement. I was more puzzled by fragments like bar 6 (third beat, "D" in RH (half note), which should sound to the end of the bar, but even on the audio one can hear that it ends prematurely, because there should also be a change of the pedal). I found a fingering that helps prolong the sound of this "D", but it is quite specific and not very convenient fingering. But with a little practice, it is quite possible to make it natural. Or legato fragments like 1st voice in RH in bar 4 (B C B G F Es D Es | F). I would like to perform this legato, even if the pedal can help with this. So I made this way (respectively, 1st voice): 4 5 4 3 2 [break, what can I do, but pedal helps] 4 3 4 | 5. - I don't think I'd like to change anything in your arrangement. Harmonies very cool and fat, nice improvisational parts. I just hope that over time, some of the inconvenience of fingering, which I previously chose for myself, will become more natural, so as not to interfere with the process of obtaining pleasure, and not to think about it. I clarified about "F" in the first bar, as it is difficult for me to hear what is actually performed on audio, where this "F" is faintly heard. But even if I didn't hear the audio, I think I would still choose the version written in the sheets, that is, the F natural.

[@rupertaustin]

@@_sa3_ That fingering for RH in bar 4 looks good. With that you should be able to prolong that D better than I did and without overuse of pedal. Nice! Oh, and look up the Nat King Cole version too. I'm not usually interested or moved by the lyrics of songs, but the lyrics to this one are very touching. For those of us who sent some old fashioned love letters before the days electronic communication, those lyrics bring back lovely old fashioned memories.

[@geraldgoodii2839]

Rupert, I join this group who are in love with your arrangement of Love Letters. How do I find your “channel” that was referenced earlier? I’d love to buy one of your arrangements for “What Are You Doing The Rest of Your Life”! Jerry

[@rupertaustin]

@@geraldgoodii2839 Thanks, glad you like it. You can follow this link to my channel: kzbin.infovideos

[@hesh1491]

are these performed by actual people or by a program?

[@rupertaustin]

They are all performed by myself. I am a real person!!

[@robertlulek1634]

@@rupertaustin I just want to say I am a pianist. I really truly enjoy your interpretations. Thank God there are people like you that can put it down in writing so that someone like myself can play it was written. I'm beyond the point of improv, but I love to copy an excellent at that lol.

[@rupertaustin]

@@robertlulek1634 Nice to hear that you enjoy these arrangements and playing them yourself. Thanks for listening!

[@dariuszradej1077]

Hello. I have a Yamaha N1 too and I have a problem with curves to get full dynamics and nuances. In my opinion, my cheap midi controller captures much more nuances with virtual pianos than N1. Have you such problems?

[@rupertaustin]

I agree, it is hard to get a a good control of dynamics and nuance when using N1 with a virtual piano. I spent a long time adjusting the velocity curve settings within the Ivory II software, and I am still not particularly happy with the result. The N1 (without virtual piano) is fantastic for general practising though when I can't use my Yamaha C3 for fear of waking my son at night.

[@jimgresham5529]

I love jazz and this song but with all these overly complicated chords you have lost the original melody.