Ryan I Am

This was one of the first songs I ever arranged for the piano. I believe I was 17 at the time. About ten years later I finally recorded it. It’s been posted before, but never to this blog, so here it is for you to enjoy: one of my many favorite Christmas songs, Silent Night.

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This is a medley of the two great LDS missionary songs – one a children’s primary song, the other a moving hymn. I deeply love both of these songs. I honestly can’t remember when I arranged this, but it was somewhere between 2002 and 2005 (yes, this is the first time I actually recorded it). If anyone can remember the first time they heard me play this, I’d love to know.

As usual, I haven’t compressed the audio, so you may need to turn up your volume to hear the quiet parts.

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There’s a Primary song I love called A Child’s Prayer. I’ve never been much of a Janice Kapp Perry fan but this is a notable exception. Since the nature of the duet makes this fairly impossible to play on the piano if you’re interested in hearing all the parts, at first I wasn’t interested in how this would sound in a full-on arrangement. Of foremost importance was to hear if all the parts would actually work on the piano or if it would just be too busy, so I threw together a few loops so I could hear them at the same time:

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I think it holds up. Eventually I may take this one a few steps further and make it more interesting with all the usual tricks. But for now, I think it sounds pretty nice.