by Turin Brakes

by tegan and sara

A song about being a frog. On a leaf, on a branch, on a tree, in a field I'm alone, like a man, but I'm small, and I'm green I'm a frog and i am free I live my life amphibiously i've got 100 hundred million friends that are just like me im a…

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…

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 Feel It (Lyrics) Desperate thoughts of uncertainty Keep on dancin’ in my head And all these images of yesterday And what I should have done instead Oh, Oh, I feel it Chorus: I feel it, I feel it…

A riverside reverie...

Performed by Benjamin Fingland (cl) and Sumire Kudo (vc); 28 March, 2010; Tenri Cultural Institute, New York, NY. Notes on the work are found here: http://digressionsthirdman.blogspot.com/2010/03/etude-on-f-113-torino-jii9-qui-moult.html

(Tolar & Savigear 2010)

Just White Trash Produced By Adam West CO Produced By Bradley Logan Lyrics By Bradley Logan Recorded 3/10/2010 Mix and mastered at belowzero studios copy right 2010

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…

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!