During normal weekends, it's just not quite busy enough - harder to get that crowd going. These days, I limit myself to just the holidays. I used to play the mall a lot more than I do now. I very much prefer when the latter happens! ![]() On the other hand, if it's BUSY, you have a constant flow of people at the CD table and you walk away on an emotional high because not only do you sell a lot of CDs, you feel noticed and appreciated. If you have a slow night, you walk away feeling a bit down because you just put all of yourself out there and few people noticed - you feel a bit like pretty wallpaper. Playing at the mall is a two-way street, emotionally. There are less people, so it's harder to get the crowd going, which makes it harder to get people's attention as they walk by. This happens on slower nights at the mall, especially. The most frustrating thing is when you give everything you have and people don't even notice. It can wear you down emotionally and physically. On Christmas Eve, I put in about six hours of playing with very few breaks. Just imagine taking every bit of emotion you have and putting it into your performance - sometimes for several hours straight. If I LOSE the crowd, then I have to work very hard to get them back. The crowd itself draws attention because people want to see what's going on. If you can gather a crowd around the piano, MORE people notice and join the crowd. To do this, I play with as much movement and emotion as I can to draw the attention of passers by. The trick to being successful playing piano in the mall is do everything you can to gather a crowd. It saves them money, plus helps support my family! And, as far as I'm concerned, the more of my music that gets "out there" the better. ![]() We do our best to encourage people to buy as many CDs as possible. The idea is that people hear the music, read the information, browse the CDs and hopefully buy. Around the piano I have three easels set up with information for people to read about the music. All nine 0f the CDs are set out, and along with them are my business cards and fact sheets that people can read and take with them. Right beside me at a table, my wife sits, dressed very nicely and selling my CDs. I've got a Yamaha 5'6" baby grand to play (this one belongs to the mall and is one of the nicest pianos in town). I just spent about two weeks straight playing here in Eugene, Oregon at Valley River Center. I thought it might be fun to tell you a thing or two about playing at the mall. The holidays are a REALLY busy time for us piano players! December is my busiest month of the year, bar none. Homestuck Vol.It's been a little while since I've posted anything. If you think that we missed a reference somewhere, please use our contact page! Any referenced songs from non-Homestuck media are listed at the end.Ĭookiefonster and wheals maintain a list similar to this one for cool and new web comic. Out of caution, but the Homestuck Sound Test assembled by Niklink and Sanctferum includes all of them. Links to the unused Hiveswap, Bill Bolin's and SolusLunes' songs aren't included Referenced songs that haven't appeared on an album or were removedįrom the comic are listed at the bottom of the page, with links whereĪpplicable. ![]() If this is confusing, don't worry: you can just hover over any special formatting for additional info. Member of the Midnight Crew are abbreviated by their initials. Referenced songs originating outside of Homestuck are in green.įor the sake of formatting, The Beginning of Something ReallyĮxcellent, Pumpkin Party in Sea Hitler's Water Apocalypse, and I'm a Referenced songs not on Homestuck albums are in pink. Referenced songs on unofficial albums are in red. Referenced songs on official albums are in blue. Songs appearing on multiple albums have any rereleases' titles underlined. Songs that contain references have their titles bolded Near-inaudible samples that are only known from word of composer.Īdditionally, if a composer explicitly says that they didn't reference a Help and FAQ This is a list of references (remixes, arrangements, samples, etc.) in Homestuck music.Įverything from full covers to brief quotes is included – even
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