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New Composition: “Me N Petrof” by Geoff Peters
My friend Marcus was over for a visit today and he encouraged me to write a song dedicated to the new “love” in my life, my Petrof acoustic piano. So I wrote a simple folk ballad which I call “Me N Petrof“. It is similar to a Brad Mehldau song I vaguely remember listening to,…
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New Recording: All I Want To Do – Angela Molineux featuring Geoff Peters
My talented globetrotting singer-songwriter friend, Angela Molineux, dropped by my place today for a visit, and we wrote and recorded a new song, called All I Want To Do. We originally started working on this song 3 years ago when we were both living in Vancouver. Since then Angela has performed and lived in Italy,…
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New Recording: I Need More by Angela Molineux and Geoff Peters
My friend, vocalist Angela Molineux, dropped by my place in between her trips to New York and London, and we recorded an original song called I Need More. We wrote this song around three years ago, and it has been good to let time pass and see how we grew musically since then. I would…
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Video: Lonely Days (original song by Gio Escueta with Geoff Peters on piano)
My friend Gio Escueta wrote an emotional pop song called Lonely Days and we recorded a performance of it in a Youtube video last night. (I’m playing piano in the video and Gio is singing). Please click here to view on Youtube or feel free to use the player below.
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New Composition: Misha’s Song
Last summer I attended the Victoria Conservatory’s jazz workshop and one of the highlights was taking some classes with New York jazz pianist Misha Piatigorsky. One of the exercises of the composition class involved making up some chords to a melody, and can you believe it, the song from that exercise is still stuck in…
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A new composition and a cover tune
Here are a couple new recordings that I made on my keyboard, that I’d like to share with you! The first one is an original composition I wrote a couple weeks ago called “Happy Song for You” (click here to listen). It’s an uplifting pop ballad with some “triumphant” chords. The second one is a…
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New Composition: A Horrible Accident (Music for a Film)
Tonight I wrote a new piece, called “A Horrible Accident”. Thankfully no horrible accident actually happened for me lately. This melody really jumped out at me (it’s kind of classical), and I’m sure I’ve heard it before. I put some mysterious chords underneath and a simple major bridge to tie things together. Please click below…
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New Jazz Jam Recording (free MP3’s avail)
I spent Sunday afternoon having a jam session on piano with my brother Byron (drums) and friend Jason (bass). This was the first time we had played together and it was a lot of fun. I made a recording of our jam and have made the Mp3’s freely available to download (please click here). Of…
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Practice Recording: original stuff and Giant Steps
Worked a bit on an original as well as the standard Giant Steps. (Click here to listen).
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New Composition: Male Nurse
Yesterday one of my friends was run over by a car. She is OK.In reaction to the whole event, I wrote and recorded a song. Click here to listen.