"Contentment"

Hello again, and here's something pretty mellow.
Plus, it's only 2:57 long! So you can get on with your life.
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LewL0CjVVL0
 
Your comments and insights are very welcome!
 
cheers,
-Tom
 

Very nice. We're all those videos by you? Short ideas are great. This is fecund ground on which to build.

Beautiful videos and the piano playing complements it nicely. Like others have said the top end could do with some air.

Excellent. Great composition and playing.

Well done. Visuals are nicely matched to the tune, too.
 
I'll express a minority view that the tone does not sound muffled to me, just appropriately mellow. However, I'd be tempted to at least experiment with EQ, just to see. Try sweeping around the upper end of the spectrum 5K+ and see if there might be some hidden frequencies up there that could bring out the piano's tone and definition a bit.

Many, many thanks!
 
I will confess that my ears are scratching their heads . . . the "lack of air" comments are surprising me . . . but that is precisely the value of the forum, isn't it. Thanks so much, I will play with some  subtle eq tweaks up there. It might give me an excuse to go buy a sweet passive eq plugin . . .  :)
 
The piano is my newly acquired EastWest Platinum Quantum Leap Quasar Particle Horizon whatever it's called - so the samples are ten years old, there is no half pedalling, and to me my main concern is a certain muddiness in the lower mids.
 
 
many many thanks!
 
-Tom
 

Indeed beautiful. Muddiness ? Yeah maybe a little but does not bother me. I would check it through other pianos. The bright one that I like is EZ Keys Grand. Congrats

Absoflippinlutely beautiful!  You really combined a wonderful composition, playing, and video for 2 minutes and 57 seconds of pleasure.  It made me melancholy for my younger days that were spent hiking and out on and in the water.
Thanks for posting.

You and I are kindred souls Tom. I could listen to you play all night. Just beautiful. I like a warm reverb patch myself. I think it sounds good like that.

Tom
Yeah I'm feeling pretty content after watching the video. It's a beautiful song (and well played) that fits quite well
with the images. I like how the transitions synced at the right moment with the music. I think I would
have kept some of the ambient sound but place them in the background at a low volume, like the sound of the flowing stream.

 
Captain Able was once again manning the bridge on the mightly Songship as it plowed through the putrid soundwaves on the roiling -- but never rocking -- Sea of Sterile Pastiche.  Suddenly, Able heard an all too familiar sound coming from the hull of the ship -- an irritating droning croaking whiny sound that cheapened the senses.  Able quickly covered his ears while shouting to his navigator "It's those damned Barnacles -- they're trying to sully and sink the Songship.  Full speed ahead!"
 
Down below, The Barnacles -- Blahpoop, Steryl69, and Synkophant -- were desperately attempting to cling to the Songship in order to sink the towering song vessel.  And, as usual, they were accompanied by their faithful floating beta consorts, The Attaboys, led by Dymm with assistance from EphYOU.
 
As The Barnacles attached their tentacles to the hull of the Songship, they unleashed  a torrent of (f)artless lyrics which were delivered in a tuneless -- although auto-tuned -- fashion.  These dirges, sung without style, were accompanied by tinker toy faux reggae sounds which were grounded by thumps.  The Attaboys circled and cooed encouragement in the murky waters surrounding the Songship.
 
Able called out for the crew to ready for battle.  Soon, the air on deck sparkled as the Songship's crew played melodic song after song in various styles and arrangements.  Tuneful vocals singing well-versed lyrics rang out with resonance and interesting phrasing.  There was no need for auto-tune and the like.  Confronted again with the Songship's lack of banality, The Barnacles were driven into a furor.  Their only was to increase the volume of their monkey-like screeching.  In the midst of this cacophony The Attaboys -- having been given strict orders through underwater sonar messaging -- fell silent.
 
Nearly overcome by the mediocrity assaulting his ears, Captain Able deftly guided the Songship away from the area where The Attaboys were floating.  He then ordered the crew to increase the melodic sounds emanating from the deck.  Overcome by contact with actual talent, The Barnacles could not sustain their attack and fell from the hull into the swirling soundwave abyss. The Attaboys, floating leaderless, continued to comment amongst themselves about The Barnacles' greatness, but to no avail.  The Barnacles lay quiet at the bottom of the Sea of Sterile Pastiche, brought down once again by their own banality.
 
The Songship continued gliding into fresher waters guided by the most able Captain Able as new sounds were carried by fresh breezes across the newly christened Sea of Good Songs.

I enjoyed it - the video and music remind me of what's it's like to be alive - very nice.  The piano sounds great.

Beautiful piece, Tom, and really nice piano sound.  What did you use to make the video?

Wow, really good performance there, Tom.  For me it just has a ton of feel to it, from the notes to the phrasing to the spaces between.