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I know the ballad "all by myself" is based on a piano concert by Sergei Rachmaninov but i would like to know
about the PIANO INTERLUDE included in the middle of the song, this piano solo doesn�t belong to Rachmaninov, it doesn't belong to Eric Carmen either.
You can hear this interlude between the 2:47 and 5:18 minutes of the song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJxdX81ZYuk
about the PIANO INTERLUDE included in the middle of the song, this piano solo doesn�t belong to Rachmaninov, it doesn't belong to Eric Carmen either.
You can hear this interlude between the 2:47 and 5:18 minutes of the song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJxdX81ZYuk
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Well, Eric Carmen claims to have written the interlude himself:
"The song started with the solo. It started 4 bars at a time. Eventually, over a period of 2 months, that entire interlude had been written. Then my quest was to put this in the middle of an actual song. Then it was a matter of trying to figure out what kind of song and how could I do it. I was listening to Rachmaninoff's 2nd piano concerto (written in 1901) and I heard the melody which I used for the verse. Then I needed a chorus. I went back and listened to a song that I had written in 1973 called 'Let's Pretend' for the Raspberries. I just took those notes and took it from there. I thought, ''Let's Pretend' was a nice melody.' The song didn't go quite as far as I thought it should have. I'll go back and steal from myself for this."
He should have checked on the music rights before stealing from the Rachmaninoff estate though.
"The song started with the solo. It started 4 bars at a time. Eventually, over a period of 2 months, that entire interlude had been written. Then my quest was to put this in the middle of an actual song. Then it was a matter of trying to figure out what kind of song and how could I do it. I was listening to Rachmaninoff's 2nd piano concerto (written in 1901) and I heard the melody which I used for the verse. Then I needed a chorus. I went back and listened to a song that I had written in 1973 called 'Let's Pretend' for the Raspberries. I just took those notes and took it from there. I thought, ''Let's Pretend' was a nice melody.' The song didn't go quite as far as I thought it should have. I'll go back and steal from myself for this."
He should have checked on the music rights before stealing from the Rachmaninoff estate though.
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