Piano Improvising- 'Now's The Time' - 3rd chorus(A learnt & Exercised combination of both Ray d’Inverno & Miles Davis' Teaching version and Charlie Parker's original one): Required by my course (Learn Jazz Piano: I. Begin with the Blues Goldsmiths, University of London ) on Future Learn platform, this sound file was hands-recorded as the third chorus of 'Now's The Time', which was named by myself
Jason M. C., Han (
talk) 13:27, 11 March 2018 (UTC)as 'Panda's Dance'. Jason, could you simply talk about your inspirations? Oh, thanks to chances on wikicommons, wikipedia and wikiversity! As I had discussed with peers on the platform of Future Learn, it followed the idea inspired by my mother - '有头小熊猫' (pronunciation: you tow thi-au thi-ong maw)and Ha -ppy pan-da head~ when she heard my play in her first vision - 'numberless panda heads all around the sky'(Referenced from comments in course 'Learn Jazz Piano...', 2017). Inspirations & self-reflections: 1. It was a total improvisation in an half-opened rhythm-environment (some parts were randomly broken for ornamental reflecting natural emotional flows) with the same theme occurred in three times - beginning, 0.58 minutes and 1.52 minutes; 2. From natural unconsciousness, it can be seen as a self participate-observation of what, according to the topic 'Now's Time - Panda Dance' and its impressions , could have still left and continuously been working in the root of my thinking tree, after getting some Jazz & Blues skills, facing some differences and touching its freedom of expressions; 3. It's about Panda's graceful Water-dance in a river flowing throughout the most depth of a forest in Chinese Landscape Painting (Wikipedia introduction:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landscape_painting#China) upon imaginations, with many techniques transformed from Daoism, 'Free Hands-style or XieYi' of Ink & Wash painting (Wikipedia introduction:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_painting). In it, you can hear many dialogues in polyphony between Panda and blue birds, sounds of river waves, waterfalls, ink-pouring trees and mountains in the forest; 3. It has also met the requirements in improvisation sheet of my course - to cover F7 - flatten B7- F7 higher - C7 - flattenB7 - F7 scales in F major, in which I have been self-struggling for a long time... 4. All techniques of piano, such as pizzicato, layers-separating & supplements, special ornamentation, arpeggio-progressions, scales-covering, harmonic self-feelings... were carefully learnt, taught and researched in my classrooms(though a little bit wild) from my childhood of West Classics & fashions.But one special skill was borrowed from East Zither (Wikipedia introduction:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guzheng) which gave you a feeling of playing the surface of water and its swirling) Then, from nature, I gave up something, kept something and re-built something, it would be wildly like... from my nature and what learnt already... Hopefully, I have expressed it clearly... Indeed, I am not quite sure... be understood. As I said, I'd rather we can see it as an objective 'cultural phenomenon' from one boy's fork nature generations-passed here, to say something(Sorry, I found it hard to play it the same in the second time). Finally, send it to panda, polar bear and some species of extincting animals... Wish mankind can take cares of these good friends on our beautiful earth, accompany with them well, and look after some in good ways...