Episode 59 - It's Our Job

🎙 Episode 59 – It’s Our Job

Welcome to Piano, Finally. This week brings a few changes in how the show is recorded. The entire episode has been produced in Cubase using Steinberg’s SpectraLayers for audio processing. Recording the MIDI data from the Kawai NV10 directly into Cubase has improved the quality of the piano sound—now I just need to work on improving my playing!

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YouTube Feature – The Music Tab
Instead of a single channel, this week’s tip is to explore the Music tab in YouTube. You’ll find recommended videos across every style: brass arrangements, classical favourites, pop, rock, even oddities like “I’m a Barbie Girl in the style of six composers.” Clicking on things you wouldn’t normally listen to is a simple way to expand your musical horizons.

Essay – It’s Our Job
Jaime Martín’s pre-concert story about how hearing Pictures at an Exhibition changed his life sparked this week’s reflection. Every musician starts with a first experience. But with music education often shrinking, who is going to give kids those first experiences now? It has become our job.
Take the young people in your life to hear music that won’t come from a social media algorithm—live orchestras, jazz, folk, choirs. Every performance is a chance to spark curiosity and broaden their world.

Review – Editors Keys for Cubase
Learning Cubase can feel like learning a whole new language. This week I’ve been using a new keyboard from Editors Keys designed for Cubase. It has colour-coded keys and printed shortcuts, making it much faster to navigate. It’s Bluetooth and backlit, but I keep it plugged in so I don’t have to worry about battery life.
Editors Keys Keyboards

Theatre – Trophy Boys
At Carriageworks, I caught Trophy Boys, a sharp, funny and powerful play about private school debaters preparing for a final round. Performed by a female and non-binary cast, it’s on until 3 August.
More on the play

Progress
This week’s practice pieces are Spindler’s Canon, Türk’s Bagatelle in F, Craggs’s Afternoon Snooze and Blackout Blues, all recorded on the Kawai NV10 using the Native Instruments Claire Fazioli piano.

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