The Sunday Song: Dubious

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Mar 212010
 

Another little piano improv here. It starts out a bit rough, sorry. By the same we get the second statement of the theme, it’s a bit more surefooted. Sorry about that. 🙂

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It’s nice to feel like I can sit down at a piano and just bang out stuff like this again. I was never very good on piano, and still am not really “good” in any technical sense. It has been a couple of decades since I stopped noodling on keyboards in favor of the guitar. Now when I go back to it my comfort with chordal structure and progression is so much greater that it’s making it a rather different experience, and a lot of fun. Maybe I should get around to relearning how to read music…

  3 Responses to “The Sunday Song: Dubious”

  1. Richard Boehme says:
    March 22, 2010 at 4:09 am

    Hmm, I’m the opposite… read music fine, but replicating something or general improv is dicey. Instrument – clarinet. I never quite got the hang of the piano…

  2. len says:
    March 22, 2010 at 8:53 am

    Or maybe not. I was going over the Domine Jesu with our church organist this weekend and he wants to compose his own but won’t. I told him the one problem of playing A-list greats for all of his career is he is now afraid that he can’t write well enough. Maybe but the truth is he is afraid of being vulnerable, something public performance of one’s compositions is definitely about. I told him also he mistakes adrenalin for fear. They feel the same. You have to learn to like the adrenalin and let yourself make the mistakes in public. Otherwise, the blank sheet of paper wins every time. These improvs prove you aren’t going to let it.

    Nice work. I got the video done for Song for Kim and had to stare into the images of my first college girlfriend. Recording a song 35 years later was fun; making the video turned into a sh*tstorm in my head. She was a doll; I was a fool. Ain’t it the way? On the other hand, all three of the guys who contributed to the video loved that girl and that is why it can be made; because they saved that. She went on living in their hearts and we in hers. IMO, the art we make of our lives is the real art. We can always craft a melody and a hook, but like your improvs, it takes courage to let your soul be naked.

    “Shadow and light in turn, but always love” from which emerges a greater light. Let there be light.

  3. Kevin Michael Johnson says:
    March 22, 2010 at 8:04 pm

    Thanks for sharing, Raph! Always love hearing these :).

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