Silly song. Silly lyrics. One live take. I recorded the piano and vocals simultaneously, though if you want to get geeky about it, the piano was via MIDI. However, if you listen closely you might be able to hear me hitting the keys in the background…

This song is what happens when you decide to bandage together multiple takes that were done without a click track. To explain the following, first I should explain this. I see the piece as being 3 different parts: the intro that hints at the…

At 180bpm, it's definitely way faster than I generally write. We'll call it "tempo creep". It started out at 140bpm, and got increased automatically to 160bpm when I imported some drums. I didn't notice it until later, and then found that 140bpm…

Le grand conundrum. How do you simultaneously improv a melody in your right hand while trying to teach your left hand a new harmonic pattern that it doth not know? I look at people like Gabriela Montero and wonder how on earth did they ever get…

I continue to struggle with hand independence. I tried to teach myself the left hand pattern that starts the song, so that I could riff against it. But no. Just couldn’t get it. So I decided to switch to block chords for the actual melody improvisation…

My second [songfight.org](songfight.org) song. Once again, I knew about the song title for the song fight in advance, but waited for the last day to actually write/produce the whole thing.

A change up for me in that there’s no damper pedal on this one. Have I mentioned how bloody difficult it is to operate a damper pedal whilst sitting on a balance ball? Don’t try this at home folks!

If you followed me back in August, you might remember how I spent several days porting this song over to Logic. Well, now that I'm using Reason+Record, I basically threw out all of that hard work and started over. I haven't yet had the time…

Live improv. Minimalist piano. No edits.