Piano Rose

The Piano is a very sophisticated instrument in that it requires the individual who masters it to be able to play multiple notes, chords and rythms at the same time while using both hands and thinking in a multi-dimensional arena of thoughts. Both hands must coordinate together using every finger to do something specifically different and yet in a unified and harmonic manner as to add to the song and not detract through disharmonic sound.

Every song has an inspiration that causes the the song to spring forth with a life all of its own. Perhaps one of the reasons that this age has not produced more great musicians is the fact that most musicians now use the musicans from the past as their reference. Most musicans who were and still are great are used as the standard for greatness, as they should. But muscians must build from those foundations that were laid and explore the relevance of music in higher and greater dimensions. What are the heights to musical abilities and music in general? I think they can go as far as we are desirous of taking it. Are their limits? Only those that we impose.

I use a mediation technique and creative method in conjunction with my music and all that I do. To receive fresh inspiration I open my self up to life and all of the emotions that I have amassed since I can remember. I call this technique "Distillation". With distillation I receive one thought at a time, one note at a time and one word at a time. The thought, word or sound is the rose that I allow to grow and expand. My "Piano Rose" is the expansion of the emotional qualities and feelings that produce the expression abundance of the sound in such a way that it flows. I pray a lot and think a lot and I do not remember the time that I have had problems writing as a writer, or a pianist. My biggest problem is trying to get all of the thoughts and the sounds out of my head fast enough.

My Piano Rose grows so fast that I am compelled to stay up when most people are sleeping to write and express these thoughts through my writing or playing. I've come to realize that this is who I am and this is what I must do. My Piano Rose is the formation of a song from the distillation of all my feelings, emotions, desires, hurts and my pleasures. they are all sources of my inspiration and creativity.

D. Reeves