happy belated valentine's day

Anyway, I thought it might be fun to record my improvisations. I sit down at the piano to play, then regret not recording it later.

The plan is to record the improvs I play when I first sit down at the piano, which are sometimes rubbish, and sometimes brilliant. I won’t record more than one take. I might start again if I do something completely stupid in the first few bars. I found that the magic seems to happen before I hit record, and if I try to repeat it, like lightening, it doesn’t strike twice. But overall, I plan to share them, warts and all, an occasional dud note, etc. I will probably do covers as well.

This week’s improv is loosely based on a song I wrote called “Sweetest Melancholy”. It was originally piano and voice. The song itself took a very long time to be born. It’s one of my favourites.