The Grey Soundtrack Piano

[Clidia Panahon]

Stow your twitchy palm" and play your own soundtrack to the novels. This official collections includes piano arrangements of the fifteen classical selections featured in the bestselling Fifty Shades trilogy by E. L. James.

"I Know You" is a song recorded by American recording artist and songwriter Skylar Grey for the soundtrack to the film Fifty Shades of Grey (2015). The song was written by Grey and Canadian composer/producer Stephan Moccio and was co-produced by Moccio and Dan Heath.[1] It was released as the second promotional single from the Fifty Shades of Grey soundtrack on February 3, 2015.[2]

"I Know You" received acclaim from music critics. Bianca Gracie from Idolator called the song "a beautiful ballad with soaring strings and luxurious-sounding percussion".[3] Carolyn Menyes from Music Times called the song "emotional" describing "I Know You" as "a mid-tempo piano ballad with a pulsing beat, yearning lyrics and dripping, high vocals".[4] Hayley Spencer from InStyle wrote "[the song] is a haunting piano ballad about convincing your lover to let go of the past and fully commit".[5] Nolan Feeney of Time called the song "moody, though somewhat less depressing" saying that the song lyrics resemble things Anastasia Steele (Dakota Johnson) probably whispers longingly to Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan) when they aren't exploring their kinky sides.[6]

In its day of release, "I Know You" reached the top spot on the American, Canadian and Mexican iTunes charts. The following day, the song reached the top in 10 countries other including France, Portugal and Poland. "I Know You" debuted at No. 45 on Portugal Singles Chart on the week of February 6 climbing to number 24 on the following week. On the week of February 20, the song fell to number 30. "I Know You" debuted at number 12 on the Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 charts and then rose to number 11 the following week. On the Canadian Hot 100 charts, the song debuted and peaked at number 80. The song has since received over 65 million streams on Spotify.

An official lyric video for the song premiered on YouTube and VEVO on the same day the track was released. The lyric video has since received over 108 million views on YouTube.[2] On February 10, Skylar confirmed that there would be a release of a visual music video for the song as she posted a picture from the set on her Instagram account.[10] The music video was released exclusively on the unrated edition of the Fifty Shades of Grey Blu-ray release on May 8.[11]

In which I reminisce about childhood music lessons, and evening television, build the LEGO Ideas Grand Piano while listening to some of my favorite piano music. Then I troubleshoot it, with some help from the fan designer.

I probably gained more, as a person, from spending this time learning the piano and musical theory, to subsequently catch up on all of those episodes while at university, than if I had not had my music lessons (Australia was privileged to have reruns of Pertwee, Bakers -both Tom and Colin- Davison and McCoy episodes for what feels like the better part of a decade. Frequently paired up with the Goodies, Kenny Everett or Monkey. But I digress).

That said, the music that I played was not necessarily be the same as the music that I would listen to. And so, as I sat down to build the LEGO Ideas Grand Piano (generously sent over by the LEGO Group), I looked up some of my favourite piano music from across the years as I set about building the set. Ultimately, there was a lot of musical replay: this is a big build, taking around 10 hours. While the playlist focussed primarily on classical piano music, I may have diverged a little, after a while.

Once again, with the help of Mrs Rambling Brick taking care of the knolling for elemental overview, I sat down, and prepared for the build. The building instructions are a solid piece of documentation: Opening with a discussion of the LEGO Ideas fan creator, Donny Chen, as well as LEGO Designers Woon Tze and Steen Stig Andersen, the book is interspersed with quotes from poets, composers and thinkers about the nature of music, and its role in society. I mentioned it is thick: five hundred and sixty four parts all up.

The building instructions divide the build into eight segments: The base of the case, incorporating the powered up elements (but more on that later); the sound board;More of the case, and the strings; the legs and pedals; the keyboard and action; dampers, fallboard and music stand;.the top board and prop; and finally the piano stool.

The first bag builds up what appears to be an L-shaped wall,with a combination of black and tan elements. There are studs running down the outside edges of the tan panel. Another tan wall is added, built up of bricks, with some Technic bricks with two pegs on one end, and exposed studs on the other. It plugs into the longer tan wall, as we prepare for the second bag:

Bag two commences with another short wall, with many brackets attached. It sits on top of the end result of bag 1 for a while. As we progree, we build a long triangle, is attached to the tan edge of our contruction. It become apparent now that there is a taper to the paino case, and the wider end is where we ultimately place the keyboard. But let us not get away from ourselves.

I continue listening to the Beethoven Sonatas at this time, and we move onto the distal aspect of the case. We have lots of black arches, as well as more tan elements, coupled with some pearl gold curves, and silver studs.

We start building what appears to be a brick, capped off with a row of arches. I look at those sockets, and wonder what they might be leading towards. With such a definate break between the previous sectioin and this, I am wondering how they will be able to be joined together in a way that is stong and stable.

Now, it turns out those sockets have a matching pair in the previously built aspects of the case,and those technic pin holes line up with some in the first section too. We put together a small frame, with some ball connectors that fit in the sockets:

We start this next section building what appears to be a 3 walled room: with two side walls in black, and the back wall in tan. As we build it up, the side walls start to taper, and I find myself wondering what role a couple of holes in the back wall, with blue connector pegs will play.

Moving into the next bag, we take a long axle, and install it with a red flag on the end. This is installed in the constructed frame from the previous bag, which is now rotated, and attached onto the front of the piano case. This flag bounces up and down, in front of the WeDo distance sensor, and will be instrumental in moving the tune along, as you play on the keyboard, in conjunction with the Powered Up App.

Once we install this into the case, with the tubes running either side of the vertical grey rods of from a bags earlier, our model is starting to look like a piano. The peg board lies on top, leaving scope for some now vertiacal (previously potentially horizontal) studs, for us to attach the inverted arches, which will ultimately hold these elements in. We also see some nested arches coming down over the front edges of the piano case.

The Most embarrassing part of the review, I appear to have failed to take any photos of the parts for this stage knolled out, or indeed during the construction phase. The three legs are identical, and plug into some holes in the base of the piano using 6 connector pins each. 22 Quarter circle tiles are used to imply a degree of woodcarving on the legs as such. small wheels on the end (without tires) mean that it can be rolled from place to place, without to much risk of scratchig the furniture.

I am grateful for the variation I have in the music now, as the Mussorgsky continues. The keyboard is spread over four bags, and there is little variation, in the composition of elements or the construction. Lets look at is all as one component, made of several subbuilds.

The Dropboard refers to the lid of the piano, that protects the keyboard. It is built up over a series of plates, with arches, tiles and slopes, while the underside is covered in inverted tiles, including the one decorated element in this set: a black inverted 22 tile featuring the 1932 LEGO Logo. A number of 13 inverted tiles also feature along the bottom of the front edge of the lid.

Next, we also install an elongated music stand alongwith the panelling along the top/front aspect of the piano: there are a few panels infront of it, allowing a piece of sheet music to be supported. This will probably be realised in the final step, with a 44 tile.

The sustain pedal on a piano (the one on the left) also has the effect of lifting all of the dampers off the piano strings. This effect is duplicated in the Grand piano: with individual dampers being lifted while a key is pressed, but the entire assembly is raised when the pedal is puched down.

Now that the model is finished, and the keyboard is in place, I reconnect the Powered Up hub to my phone over the magic of Bluetooth. The app gives me the option to select a creative canvas, or the programs designed to run with an ever increasing number of models. we select the piano: It gives us two modes: Listen and play.

Each note in the tune is triggered by any note being played on the keyboard: there is a 32 stud long axle, overlying the axle, and every time a key is pressed, this axle is raised (along with the hammer moving, and the damper lifting off the string, if applicable). On the end of the bar is a small panel, which is waved past the WeDo distance sensor with any keystroke.

Another disappointing aspect of both play and listen mode is that none of the music displayed on screen even pretends to represent the music being played through the speaker of the phone. (or even the notes played by the piano keyboard).

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