7 Jan 2008, #2. Beatrice - 5m30s

I must confess something. I had already composed the first two bars of this piece when I sat down, and I also was thinking about the first two notes in the treble clef. But it quickly became much more than was in my head. Again, I started in a more experimental style, and yet I fall back into the blues mode. And, again, I am especially pleased with my failure.

(Here's where this project is meant to help my stamina: it is pretty obvious that, four minutes in, my left hand gets too tired to keep up the ostinato, so I give it to my right hand for a while, and my left hand struggles with some quarter notes. Hopefully in a few months I'll be able to play something like this without wearing out.)


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Recorded on January 7th, 2008, at Peace Church of the Brethren, in Portland, OR, with a Zoom H4 Digital Recorder. Edited with Audacity music software.