Above the Clouds by Ben Dockery Sheet Music for Piano Solo at Sheet Music Direct

Product Details

Artist Ben Dockery

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Composer Ben Dockery

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 3

Arrangement Piano Solo

Publisher Ben Dockery

Level 3

Product ID 789490

Genre Pop Children Rock Contemporary Standards

Instruments Piano

Product Description

This short piano piece is the second in a series of impromptus inspired by the sounds of childhood, namely music from early Nineties eight-bit gaming systems like Nintendo.
Rather than being in a major or minor key, this piece is predominately in the lydian mode. With other impromptus, I held specific video games in mind, but with this piece I tried to remember the many games where flying ships, vehicles, or characters occur. Something about the brightness of the lydian mode has always made me think of flying.
The left-hand ostinato pattern can be mastered if care is given to suggested fingerings, i.e. repeated notes are not played only with the thumb. The middle section offers pianists a chance to explore the 5/4 time signature and to build tension through dynamics, and rhythmic and textural density.

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