{"id":33,"date":"2014-04-02T04:55:13","date_gmt":"2014-04-02T04:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jonoforbes.com\/blog\/?p=33"},"modified":"2014-04-02T04:55:13","modified_gmt":"2014-04-02T04:55:13","slug":"new-song-cherry-blossom-bosoms-pt-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonoforbes.com\/blog\/new-song-cherry-blossom-bosoms-pt-2\/","title":{"rendered":"New Song: Cherry Blossom Bosoms, pt. 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Long ago, <a href=\"http:\/\/jonoforbes.com\/blog\/new-song-cherry-blossom-bosoms-pt-1\/\">I posted just the first portion of this song<\/a>, promising that I&#8217;d upload &#8220;part 2&#8221; (aka &#8220;the rest of it&#8221;) shortly. \u00a0At that time I had already finished (maybe 98%, I don&#8217;t remember exactly) this version, and just needed to get a good recording. \u00a0And then much time passed. \u00a0At long, long last, the day before moving (for a while) to Japan (more on this soon), I finally got this recording&#8230;. and that was four months ago. \u00a0Today, cleaning up some files, I came back across it. \u00a0Woops! \u00a0So, here&#8217;s that long-promised-long-misplaced recording:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/142641412&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;visual=true\" height=\"450\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I described in the first post that part 1 was written without a piano, just in Finale, which was a new and challenging approach for me. \u00a0After learning to actually play the piece on piano (the majority of the challenge of that approach), I expanded upon it in my more typical zone, just jamming around on the instrument, and the result is what you hear above. \u00a0 Actually at a few small moments in working on this new version, I went back into Finale to really figure out tough passages, so I&#8217;m very happy to have added that implement to my musical toolchest, where earlier in my writing I would&#8217;ve just ended up going with something I was more comfortable playing off the bat. \u00a0All in all, I&#8217;m really happy with how this piece came out.<\/p>\n<p>There might be a part 3 in the future. \u00a0The plan from the get-go was to write part 1 in Finale, learn to play it, write part 2 with the normal jam-approach, which brings us to now, and then to transcribe part 2 and expand on that, back in Finale, into part 3. \u00a0So maybe that&#8217;ll happen sometime soonish&#8230; but no promises \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long ago, I posted just the first portion of this song, promising that I&#8217;d upload &#8220;part 2&#8221; (aka &#8220;the rest of it&#8221;) shortly. \u00a0At that time I had already finished (maybe 98%, I don&#8217;t remember exactly) this version, and just needed to get a good recording. \u00a0And then much time passed. \u00a0At long, long last, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jonoforbes.com\/blog\/new-song-cherry-blossom-bosoms-pt-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Song: Cherry Blossom Bosoms, pt. 2<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonoforbes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonoforbes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonoforbes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonoforbes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonoforbes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jonoforbes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37,"href":"https:\/\/jonoforbes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions\/37"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonoforbes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonoforbes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonoforbes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}