Playlist: you started classical
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piano at age 5, right? How long
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VT: Yes, I started at 5 and I stopped
formal lessons at 17. I studied with
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a great teacher. He approached fR01 Treading Lemmings
classical material with a composer’s
ear - and an improviser’s ear - and
helped me really study it. He’d have
me look at the chord progression
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and study what each hand was doing
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and how themes were repeated; he’d 410-347-2020
have me play the pieces in different www.baltimorearena.com
keys. He’d have me deconstruct pop
music and see what the bass line
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was doing, and really make me think
Adams, Marvin Sapp, and Kirk Franklin
about it. ... we’d look at a Dionne
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Warwick song, for instance, and I’d
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have to pick out the baseline, then
he’d give me the weekend to come
up with a piano arrangement as if
I was going to play it at a cocktail
party. Having the rigorous classical
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training really helped me as a
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songwriter.
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Playlist: How does songwriting
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work for you? Is it a disciplined
sit-down-at-the-piano kind of
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thing, or do melodies just wander
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into your head?
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VT: I write pretty slowly. I don’t have
a method, I just pick whatever works
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right then. It’s a combination of
Kunimura
discipline and waiting for the random
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inspiration. But the more you work Su17 Harmonius Blacksmith
in a disciplined way, the more you Early Music Ensemble
invite the randomness to happen.
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Su24 Bonnie McNaughton (soprano)
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