Tag: Original Compositions

Here’s my  Theme 34 and Theme 35 to help you relax.

First, a little pick-me-up piano exercise.

And: Slow Dance Through Covid-19

Both from February, 2020

Come the Spring:

Piano Exercise (Theme 104):

Two versions of this verse about a thrush at the Spring above the Ranch, circa 2007.

THRUSH SONG lyrics

 

This one is for chasing butterflies. I thought this must have been what I looked like at age four or five, trying to catch butterflies with my hands.

 

This is the first instrumental composition I ever wrote, in 1962, with the help of Bruce Markkula, who studied guitar with Johnny Smith.

 

This one is the first composition I ever wrote on GarageBand, in about 2008. I refer to it as “My Adagio,” since it has no other name.