Hello, guys!

Here are some of my recent videos

This is my town



Background music – me playing Yamaha MM6

This is a girl I met singing a song written on my music:



I play here Yamaha PSR-E303


Here I am playing all my keyboards at the same time




Here’s me singing a song. I can’t sing, so I apologize for what you hear.

BRAVO young man! It is wonderful to hear beautiful music rather than loud noise from a young person!!!!

Thank you so much for sharing with the world!

Elizabeth in S.E. New Mexico, U.S.A.

Thank you sincerely!


Here's more stuff:

This is not my bag, but I have to admit that it is very nice and well done!

We had a fellow come to our local Jazz festival one spring sometime back. He out shined a 65+ year old local very, very good Jazz pianist who had his own trio that works this area. I thought how can this be, A 24 year old doing this to our local guy.

I had to go talk to him. Turns out he was 54 years old and had been playing since three months before he came out of his mother's womb. He said that he never had a desire to play anything but Jazz, however he came up with classical music lessons. Some of the best Jazzers I heard tell started classical musical lessons as a kid.

I figured he had more face lifts than Phyllis Diller and Joan Rivers put together. Ha ha!

Maybe this young man is not quite so young. Lol Very very good young man!

On another note I see many hi-rise buildings but no people. I don't see any traffic. In my town of maybe 10,000 people we have three red lights but we have much more traffic. I don't see any red lights on your streets.

Please tell me the name of the town and how many people live there? I don't see a bunch of tank top guys with tattoos from the top of their heads down like we see here in our towns.

Your town looks peaceful and quite. If we get anymore gangs moving here from LA California, I'm going to need to get an A-K47 or a tank. I didn't see a police car or a policeman in your video either.

Is this a trick movie of your town? I don't know what to think.

Kabinopus

Nice work, the MM6 sounds nice, thanks, where are you in Russia???


Tony

Excellent piano performances.

Thanks for submitting them,

Gary

Thank you a lot guys!

The name of my town is Elektrostal, it’s 30 miles away from Moscow. There’re about 150.000 people lives here. Maybe I shown it not very objectively and it started to seem so lonely... But I just shown what I saw.

I don’t know for sure but I think that in Russia we don’t have areas that can be called a ‘gangland’ but it doesn’t mean we have less crimes. Probably we are more mixed. For now…

By the way, I'm 26 and I don't have any musical education. I've been playing keyboards since I was 9 mostly for myself.

Kabinopus,


I worked in Shepkina in 1999, I would suggest that people go to Russia and see it before they die, it is well worth it . Do you play by ear or do you read music, I would love to hear you play more KB if you could, is there a broken key on your KB ?? I thought Moscow was fantastic not what I expected. I when into a McDonalds and bugers were half the price they are in the UK, and Endlish chap said if they didn't reduce the price people would not go in there. Wish that would work here in the UK, supply and demand

Tony

Boo move to Russia brick bats and all, Vodka only 50p a bottle, if you go downtown Moscow you will have a surprise of your life, not what you think, it's not all guns, Anyway if this young man had a Lionstracts MS bet we would have wall to wall demos, if I have a MS I wasn't using I would send it to him, hell the voltage might be wrong never thought of that.

Tony

Hello, Tony

Yes, I play by ear. I’m not bright enough to get along with a classical music – it makes me tired. So I play rather simple stuff.

Now I don’t have any keyboards but those that I played in those videos. There’s a broken key on my PSR-3000 (something with a ribbon inside). That’s why I use NP-30 as an external controller.

Actually my Yamaha MM6 is broken too. I have only left output working… And it’s a big deal to get it into a service. But I’m pretty fulfilled with my working stuff.

The thing with prices on fast-food – an average income here is about $400-1000 per month. Someone gets more, others get less. And McDonalds in the most popular place in my town. A proper restaurant is not very affordable for a lot of families.

It’s mostly fine in Moscow so everyone’s trying to get there. It’s easier to get a job there but I got very crowded… like overloaded… too many cars on roads, too many people on trains and so on.

It’s ok in others large cities.. But it’s terrible in villages and people say that in a village people do nothing but drink.

And the main issue here is a corruption. Probably because everything is concentrated on stuff that is inside the earth it’s hard to get anything done anywhere else… We almost don’t make anything… phones, computers.. And cars that we still do people prefer not to buy.

Well.. I’m to meet an musician in about an hour… I never met him before… maybe I will learn something interesting.

Sorry if there’re problems with my English )

Kabinopus, Thank so much for sharing your music and part of your life; I find both very interesting. You play with no music and no need to stare down at your fingers; beautiful, that is a good indication that the music is coming from within, from the heart.

I find your stories and opinions about your country and your life interesting. If you have the time please post more of your playing and your stories.

John C.

Kabin,

Thanks for that, I loved the very short time I spent in Russia, everyone should go and see for themselves, I went to a video market and every bit of software was there all copies for around 3 dollars everything appeared to be the same price, the Moscow underground was incredible. It's no use me telling you what it's like you need to go and see. Sorry to hear about your KBs problems, we are spoilt both USA and UK some of us moan and we don't know how lucky we are. Keep posting Kabin, love to hear more.


Just think if Russia made an arranger, cross between a Sherman tank and a mediastation

Tony

Hello, guys!

Today I met two musicians and I’m a little bit overloaded with impressions.

My first meeting was at 2:00 PM. I met a musician I never knew before. He plays a lot of instruments but mostly he plays an electric guitar. He doesn’t do it for a living although he made some money playing in restaurants in the past. He had a cup of tea in a café and then we went to his house.

He said that he used to play the saxophone when he was in the army but now he doesn’t get enough money to buy one. He’s doing something with tv-antennas for a living.

I think he plays the guitar very well but he’s more into rock-n-roll, deep purple etc and I always had more feelings for more romantic music.

So I came home about 3:30 PM and I remembered that today another guitarist was to play a small concert. His name is Evgeny Pavlenko. I had gone to his concert before and after that I contacted him via internet – I shoved him my videos on YouTube.

Today’s concert was a very small one. It was in a small apartment that looked like a flat. Besides me there were about 8 people mostly elderly persons.

Evgeniy Pavlenco plays the classical guitar. He’s a guitar teacher. He plays popular songs and songs of his own. After his performance I came to him and he greeted me and gave me a hug. He said that we and his wife had watched my videos and they liked them. It was a big pleasure that he acknowledged me as a musician. I said to him that I prefer a classical guitar to any other guitars. We agreed that we would stay in touch. Like me he wants to find a way to make music as a profession. He said that he got tired teaching music.

You can visit his site: http://guitarrra.narod.ru/

I'm a little bit tired so I'm too lazy to recheck what I wrote so if something doesn't make any sense just ignore that )

Evgeny Pavlenko

Kabin,

I'll send you $100 US. You keep $50 and you send me back a big supply of Vodka for my son, and a big supply of McDonalds for me OK.

Thank you for all the info.

Here in the USA we do not make anything either. Everything comes from China, Mexico, India, Japan, Korea and places I've never heard of.

We have lots of people making lots of money here in the USA that go around taking houses away from families and giving them to the Rothchilds, Rochefellars, JP Morgans and the other theives over in France and Italy who own the "Federal Reserve."

I can say what I want here in the USA, they won't arrest me for free speech. what they will do is just shoot me or get me on a plane crash like they did to Bill and Hillary's friends when they were the honchos in the big house. No ha ha on this one.

But you better watch what you say because in the movies about Russia the KGB watches everybody and puts them in Jail.

What a world eh?

God Bless America Brickboo and timber framed buildings.

Thank you for sharing your musical talent with us. It is so sad to know that good music is under-valued in today's world. You play well and I wish you much success and happiness. I hope our two countries can become better friends. Despite our differences, we have so much in common.

All the best,

Dave Rice

Kabinopus... thank you for sharing your music ...
one of the great things about S-Z is that we can communicate with people all over the world through the international language of music ...

Kabinopus - If I can make a small suggestion...

Take a listen to your recordings, and try to think of any pro recordings you have where the piano (or any lead instrument) is so loud, you can barely hear the accompaniment, especially the drums.

It is always tempting to make our OWN part loud enough to easily hear OVER the accompaniment, but when you listen to pro recorded music, while you can always hear the lead, it is still INSIDE the mix. This is one of the things that arranger playing makes you do differently to being in a band. In a band, you have YOUR monitor, and can easily hear yourself (hopefully!) over the band, but out front will be balanced (again, hopefully!) either by the band's general volume, or the soundman mixing it.

But an arranger, you ONLY get to hear the final mix, and must get used to hearing yourself somewhat quieter than you would in a band with a monitor.

I enjoy your playing, and hope you will take this as constructive criticism.

Record yourself using the MIDI recorder in your arranger, then mix it by turning down the lead until it 'sits' in the mix better. Then copy that lead volume to the Registration, and play it again, and listen to how you hear it now. If you can get used to not having what YOU play as the way loudest element, you can sound VERY polished. After all, you paid good money for a great arranger... allow it to shine too!

Keep it up! Great to hear youngsters posters here.

Diki, thank you, that makes sense. Actually recently I got a little bit full with background styles and all other sophisticated stuff. I never considered myself to be a jazz player, but somehow I discovered that with such rhythm I can enjoy playing without any accompaniment. But I can’t say that what comes out is very beautiful )