Laura Remson Mitchell - Volume 3 Notes

[All songs in this volume are Copyright 1996-2005 by Laura Remson Mitchell. Except for Jingle Rock Shuffle,(which I guess is more of an arrangement than a new piece, all of the songs are original compositions. Feel free to listen to and/or download them for personal use. If you want to use any of my music for other purposes, please contact me at af752@lafn.org.]

1. Jingle Rock Shuffle
My take on the traditional Christmas song. Uses Yamaha PSR 740's rock-shuffle style.

2. Mood Music
Uses Piano Ballad 2 style on my PSR 740, with fills from different style variations, beginning with variation A but mostly using variation D.

3. Step to My Blues
I keep changing the instrument voices for this bluesy little piece. This version uses a solid guitar lead with an upright bass, joined later by a touch bass. The song doesn't use any PSR style. This is the first song I wrote after learning a blues scale.

4. Lazy Daze
Uses the beautiful GtrBallad1 style created by Simon Williams.

5. Horsin' Around
Uses a PSR 740 style I created myself. It's not the most useful of styles, and the timing of my playing could be a lot better, but I still like the feeling of the song.

6. Thinking of You
Recorded directly to disk on Yamaha PSR 740 using the Cool Night style, then edited in Cakewalk Pro Audio 8. There are places in this piece where the timing still could use some work, but I experimented with a few techniques, including dynamics, for this song.

7. True Blue
No style used. I wrote this at the piano, recorded it using my PSR 740, then edited and expanded it using Cakewalk Pro Audio 8 software.

8. Grade Boo Meevies
Uses the PSR 740's Ragtime style, but parts of the style have been changed to fit what I was trying to do with the song. The title is inspired by the "Grade B movies" I used to watch on television on Saturday mornings when I was a kid.

9. On the Road
No style used. I started playing around with a C(6/9) chord, and the song just evolved from there.

10. London Bridge Piano Variations
Piano variations on the children's song "London Bridge Is Falling Down" (my most recent composition as of Aug. 2, 2005). This piece, which uses three different time signatures (4/4, 3/4 and 6/4), starts out with the original melody, goes to a Bach-like variation, and then.. Well, just listen to it, and decide for yourself. ;-)