# Pianist / Arranger, Micah McLaurin - Pensado's Place #593 ## Метаданные - **Канал:** Pensado's Place - **YouTube:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q22UKv5GRrM - **Дата:** 05.10.2024 - **Длительность:** 39:13 - **Просмотры:** 195,464 ## Описание Micah McLaurin redefines what it means to be a virtuoso pianist by applying the sensibility of a 21st century pop artist. Not only is Micah inspired by the giants of romantic music, Chopin, Rachmaninoff and Liszt, he also looks to the great pop divas, Lady Gaga, Madonna and Donna Summer. This heady mix creates an unforgettable sound that’s designed to move you from the serene to the dance floor. By merging his unparalleled piano skills, his talents as a composer and vocalist with his flair for fashion and out-and-proud sensibility Micah has earned his place as part of the pop scene. Enjoy our episode with Micah McLaurin. You're at The Place! ## Содержание ### [0:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q22UKv5GRrM) Segment 1 (00:00 - 05:00) happy to be here and host the uh this room embodies I think what you're about to see um even though there's a ton of music and the tools and Technology allow us to do a bunch of things there's not necessarily a lot of artistry there's a lot of music you are going to see an artist tonight that represents this room I see Candace Stewart amazing person that's why Paul McCartney calls her directly at East West Paulo Salvador an absolute legend in the game valare has touched Us in ways and if I'm missing anybody I apologize um uh pensado's place for those who know or don't know we're in our for year 602 episodes 200 countries and I would just give a quick announcement to be prepared for probably in November a new show called The Parlor it's going to be the I'm just tell so my show anyways uh when I was called to do this I was absolutely blown away at the information they sent me um people who know me know that and I say this respectfully so don't me too movement me but I am a talent hoe I'm a I'm an absolute Talent hoe so real talent makes me nuts and I kept playing this and playing this and I got the call for to host this thing so we're going to do you're going to see a performance and we're going to do an interview with some very critical people uh the diamonds project absolutely should win Grammys I'm here to tell you that it's absolutely incredible and embodies an artist that you're about to meet right now please put your hand hands together for Michael McLaren e ### [10:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q22UKv5GRrM&t=600s) Segment 2 (10:00 - 15:00) bra thank you so that was chop Pan's first belad if any of you know it um it's not on my album but I decided to open with chopan because I don't think that I would be doing music where not for chopan and he his music really changed my life and um touched me so I think that I really owe him so much so I wanted to open with showan um this next one is shallow by Lady Gaga the ### [15:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q22UKv5GRrM&t=900s) Segment 3 (15:00 - 20:00) thank you the next one is a piano version of my disco pop song don't give up on love ### [20:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q22UKv5GRrM&t=1200s) Segment 4 (20:00 - 25:00) incredible Michael mclen uh don't go any place there's still two more songs but we're going to introduce you to people who know to produce this kind of talent Nick Patrick you around some place Chris Walden come on up okay I have one of these purple jumpsuits I didn't know he was going to wear his I would have worn mine but mic you are so talented you sit right here and he no I'll sit there and you sit here what is fascinating about Micah that he has co-signed for me is that I think he lives his art but I think that there's so much Nuance in what he does that the ability to capture it and let him be all that he is I mean there are times in one song he's doing it as a keyboard virtual so and there's times it's phrasing like a vocalist right and so you guys had to figure out how to get all of that and let him be who he is and keep the emotions is that correct that is right I mean I think it's what's interesting and fascinating about mic is that when you go through those that musical development process at Curtis juliard it's quite a stringent process and what Mike has done which is unique is he hasn't let that Define him and keep him in his Lane he's broken out of that and use that as the foundation of his musicality and it's given something unique in the way he plays I hope you don't mind me talking about it if you're not here you're loving it but M does he has a unique touch and I think we heard that and it's it's a beautiful uh thing to be around in arranging this stuff because it's my sense and you tell me I don't get the sense that Michael lets anybody mess with his music I think you're very particular about is that fair I think you're right okay good good and so one to be chosen is another thing and then two to pull off a project with this kind of magnitude that ranges from his original stuff to covers that are reinterpreted must have been a crazy interesting thing to have to put your hands around yes um in this particular case when writing for M orchestral Arrangements he his piano part Micah basically already crafted himself so my job as an orchestral arranger was to create the bed that surrounds his piano performance and kind of staying out of the way of his performance and kind of uh um kind of supporting it with orchestral colors as b as I as best as I could but I did not change a note of what Mah was playing that was all that's all him so and I kind of surrounded it but that that's what actually what comes through is just somebody would observe it is that between the three of you they found a way for you to be all you needed to be and not have to compromise who you are but yet put some structure and stuff to it that brought it forth I'm curious one if that's the case and two when you come to record have you already thought it out or you just sitting down doing it once you get there you mean like have I um arranged it already or am I improvising yeah and is there improvisation ation when you're recording periodically I allow for improvisation because I'm always open to um what you can do that's more magical um and I started doing Arrangements because I didn't want to be tied down to the score how they are in classical music so I started doing arrangements to find that sense of Freedom so there is a little bit of improv in some of the recordings but for the most part they were um preworked out and I was exactly sure of what I was doing in every note um but only then would I decide to change something on the spot and I think that even in that as you prepare even if you don't do it on the spot you're doing it beforehand so that you can come and let yourself be free when you're doing it cuz you know what your own guidelines are cuz you created your own guidelines yeah you have to have the foundation and um you have to have ### [25:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q22UKv5GRrM&t=1500s) Segment 5 (25:00 - 30:00) and you have to have um like a base and then you can go off and be adventurous but without the foundation you don't really have like the direction of where to go yeah you're just Meandering around I think that um if there artist in the room or you represent artists or work with artists this is permission structure to be artistic like you don't have to deal with the confines of what the business tells you to do and so forth go rock some literally go right is that correct go rock some that's it is a privilege to be a steward of Pop Culture why would you waste that opportunity you should do something special with it which is why have so much respect for what you guys have done how long was the recording process how long did it take um well we I mean one thing I'll just if I can just go back on Micah's process um it's a kind of circular process where Micah would do a guide piano Park which was essentially his arrangement Chris would then arrange to that but then when we recorded mic's Master piano part he would do that without the orchestral Arrangement and that way when we recorded the orchestra if the Dynamics any kind of nuances in Micah's performance that weren't in the demo we would just adust adjust the Dynamics in the orchestration when we were recording it so it really was tailor made you know like a uh tailor made suit that just hung and lit beautifully the I mean at one point in time Michael was ACC companying himself was it in diamonds on diamonds yes yeah I mean that was actually the only instance where uh where we kind of is are people allowed to know that well you tell me Micah no but in all the other songs Micah had really worked out a piano Arrangement that I had got to work with but in the case of diamonds our girl best friend um we kind of played back and forth because there we had to really construct something that has been uh vocal song has been sung by melan Monro how do we make that work for piano but still include some of the iconic piano accompanying phrases that we all associate with it so and I think we came up with a good solution and that took some kind of back and forth until we had that figured out if you m if you want to explore yeah so for diamonds um I really loved Marilyn Monroe's version and the piano that was on that version already so I wanted to keep that but um I don't sound like Marilyn so I wasn't going to sing it um so I played the melody on the piano with like jazz chords and harmonies and I did it on two pianos with myself so it sounds like a really thick um virtuosic piano solo but it's actually me playing two pianos which was fun to play two pianos with yourself and he says it like it's normal like you know hey man just no problem um the through line that for me is new to it but enjoying it is somehow you find a way to keep the emotion of who you are and what you want to do with your music always kind of present and that doesn't get away when I listen to can't help fall in love I heard the nine-year-olds who played it for the first time and then somehow I heard the mature person doing it that way the innocence was still there is is that a purposeful thought like the Innocence and the um yeah just there there's an emotion to it that comes through but yet you still get to be artistic in that well can't help falling in love was the first song that I performed and on that track at the end of it I play the song as I played it when I was 9 years old um but I wanted to bring it back to the present day with what I know about music now and that's why I did this version to show an evolution while also going back to where it all started yeah and um it's extremely simple and it sounds very easy but that was intentional because I wanted to show how music for me especially slow music I feel it comes directly from the heart and I don't feel that it needs so many embellishments or technical um gymnastics to really um show emotion and to convey something I think that you just it just really comes from the heart and it can be the most simple thing but you have to make people feel that from you guys perspective certainly ### [30:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q22UKv5GRrM&t=1800s) Segment 6 (30:00 - 35:00) I've always even on our show when we have all these great people on what everybody's striving for is how to be simple people don't know that how complicated it is to be simple to be honest and that's the stuff that touches us as people who love music is when it's simple you know when you think about the Beatles how do you make Hey Jude what and then all of a sudden you know you're touch and such so cool close to you guys for understanding that was important to him and then him trusting you guys to do that and it coming around cuz that was kind of the goal wasn't it yeah I mean I think one of the really interesting things when you listen to Micah play you know how he's feeling that day because it's his voice and that's the clearest indication about the emotional impact his playing is having on himself right and how he expresses himself so if he's pissed off and he hits with his left hand down do you just leave the studio and say micha's having a bad day yeah we'll just leave you for a while it's usually you know incredibly sensitive and a magical touch and and to all of your credit that's what it feels like to listen to it it's like oh wait I need sort of a special space to listen to this like I don't need to be jamming in a car with 19 people smoking weed like or sorry you didn't hear that that's a oh it's legal in LA but that's another thing um but the idea of let me get along with this music and let me allow it to touch me and you listen once and then you realize you need to go back and get another bite and you're like oh wait this is now taking me to other places which was exactly my experience when you guys reached out and I was like I got to know it and then I was just listening and watching and uh just kudos to Artistry um I think that we could continue to bore the audience but I think they may want to hear two more songs from this AR what do you think guys more song so without further Ado the one the only Michael mlar There You Go sir you stay here ### [35:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q22UKv5GRrM&t=2100s) Segment 7 (35:00 - 39:00) one more you yeah this um Moon River all right yeah all right the project is diamonds it's up for a Grammy you'll be able to get to see this in two this will be on pensado's place in 72 hours incredible work you guys he's Michael mclen and now we fellowship and we get to hang out so enjoy yourselves we'll be out there in a second thank you party time let's go --- *Источник: https://ekstraktznaniy.ru/video/52516*