Welcome to my website. rogersteffen.net
Here you will find my piano music, my vocals and the poetry i have written over the last few years... I hope you enjoy it as much as i did creating it...!!!
Please consider listening to My latest work's
r.steffen pianist, composer self taught
My gift to the world for given the fair chance to thrive.
As i was raised in 5 homes until i was 12 yrs old.(very proud of that and surviving...couldn't of done it with out the backing of all of these people especially that last set that i call family)
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All works recorded at my home studio extemporaneously ...i use a kaiwia mp8 ll keyboard with wooden weighted keys...mixcraft pro studio 7 ,simple easy but very good...the best hand built pc with a 40 lane intel 6 core 12 thread asus rampage v extreme 3.1 motherboard (over kill ...way over kill ) with 2 m.2 ssd drives ...intel i7 5930k cpu...saffire pro 40 audio interface couple mics... 50 inch flat screen tv with 4k resolution because i am very close to screen ..every thing is packed in tight but it works....and vienna symphony instrument software ....(pic below) mixcraft has an abundance of instrument some very good quality i might say...and tons of loops ...pianoteq piano software ($99) thats a cheap grand piano...
also i want to give credit to people of whom i used images off of google... working a remedy soon for it... as i have never received a single permission or even a reply ....just saying ...hate to put it in my intro but it is important... thank you to whom it may concern ...thinking of correcting this with a new camera and make own pics as soon as i wrap my head around what will work for the buck..
r.steffen 2016
recording studio
Coming soon... "From the heart" (quadruple bypass surgery 2/29/2016
"FROM THE HEART"
IN HONOR
of
DR. FRISCIA
and his
STAFF
GEISINGER NURSING STAFF
and
everyone else
CLEANING LADY TOO...!!!
TRACK #1
written on one of the first days of spring
for
A.E.C
it was a nice day and i could smell the rain coming ...
even though it was a long way off...!!!
Fur Elizabeth...
In honor of my mother and father's 50th wedding aniversery.
I arrived on April 11, 1968 right before Easter...
with a small suitcase and a bag of pretzels my departing mother gave me as a treat...
it was hard to eat the last one in my new room.
round prezel logs.
In memory of a friends fathers passing.
My spin on "Hurt" Trent Reznor "nine inch nails"
"Wounded Hearts"
The terrible things that happened at the end of the year... left me with out words and drove me to my piano
to find the sense in it... well their is none... sometimes we are driven to make do...their are no words to describe how i felt... as a poet, i just could not rise above it... i let you with an other language... "music"
from
www.rogersteffen.net
a glass of wine... two beers a shot
three beers... two more tall ones
a bluthner piano extemporaneous fingers
my broken heart... mistakes and all
that how tragedy is...
lonely fearful and if your lucky
on your last day
ya think back
and their is no fear
and you take it all home
for my children
will not have
"wounded hearts"
r.steffen
in the year of our lord
"infinity"
"unlock my heart"
when i set at my piano
and close my eyes
i see color no disguise
i touch keys that unlock my heart
then i sail away
to some distant sea
and unload
from my soul
all debris
r.steffen... along time ago
A group i donate time to...!!!
N.A.M.I
(National Alliance on Mental Illness)
its hard to explain
the self-transcendence
one gets
from the experience
of helping others
less fortunate
like walking up a stair case
the one that's hidden in all our minds
we open it rarely
some never
to see what could be
that's what NAMI
is to me
come join us !!!
r.steffen
looking in to the stars
one late equinox night
"national alliance on mental illness"
www.nami.org
Dion PandH Piano
Love-
It is not a word, nor a single action.
In truth, it can never be wrong
Like the sunrise, perfect in every possible way.
It is many things and yet it must exist
In the small space of the heart.
Once found it can bloom endlessly, with no cease.
It can choke one's throat, bring one to tears...
But it never hides in shadows or in darkness
It never feeds itself on deception.
It grows with trust, honesty and compassion.
Nothing less, always more.
I composed and performed "FOREVER" in 2005 in memory of two southern
football players who drowned while at football camp. That year southern
Columbia football team started each game with only 9 players en route to
a PIAA state championship.
Finding my way home was composed in 2009. this piano music was done
while in a manic episode.
Thoughts was composed as a wedding gift september 25, 2010
Disharmonies was composed for a friends new boyfriend
Vocals "Could it be "(2010) and "two nickels in my pocket"(2009) were composed and
performed by me for a close friend.
Karen's song again was composed and
performed by me for another close friend in 2010. Karen a friends of mine was sereverly burn while wearing a mohair sweater and required extensive skin grafting.
I don't expect you to listen to all my piano music...some of my favorites are Karen's song, FOREVER THEME track 6,
finding my way home track 1, forever
piano "mothers theme" track 17.
A new meaning that tests the
definition of
disability
Liu Wei's
first competition on
CHINA'S GOT
TALENT
