Firesong X
A really nice piece! I thought it created the feeling you wanted. I'm sorry I can't help with the musicology.

John

Simon and Garfunkel's well before your time young man.

eph221

Firesong X
A really nice piece! I thought it created the feeling you wanted. I'm sorry I can't help with the musicology.

John

Simon and Garfunkel's well before your time young man.

I certainly can't say I know their music very well..
John

Very lovely.   Vaguely recalls 'A Time for Us' for me, but I just listened to that old chestnut and it is not too similar.  
 
Honestly I like your tune much better than that one.  I wish Billy Joel was still writing stuff like this.

many thanks to all for the kind compliments! It's a bit of a Rorshach test, perhaps, listening and hearing other bits of other songs in mine. I think I'll leave it alone and just live with being influenced!  . . .  cheers, -Tom

emeraldsoul
solo piano cd coming out, with this original. 

markno999
If you're not too pressed for time with your deadline, a little orchestration toward the middle around 1:50 would be interesting.

I was pretty sure solo means alone, but what do I know? I'm just a bass player.

Very, very nice Tom, ol pal. Great playing and feel. Of course I listen to everything with my producer hat on...so I picture this as a theme to a movie and I'd bring in the warmth of strings at 1:07 and then back out when you start introducing the major chord at the beginning of the motif. Which I think is repeated too many times. I see it in four distinct sections...first, piano only stating the minor theme...then adding the strings and under pinning of other instruments (Rhodes?) then back to piano for the shorter major section but again adding strings toward its end...then a shift to a smoky acoustic bass, drums and piano jazz trio when you start riffing on the minor theme...then subtly bringing in the sad strings again at the end. And I'll expect that on my desk by 5 o'clock this afternoon;-)

In other words it should be like sex...like most all emotional songs should.

Does your producer hat look like a big sombrero donut?  :)
 
Ha, loved your post, I totally agree it could swing towards the end as a jazz trio, brush snare-type deal. That's a future cd for me I think. More like 2022 than 5 o'clock today, sadly.
 
wait, let me go check my lottery tickets . . . be right back.
 
-Tom
 
 
 
 
 

Well...it's still wonderfully loverly:-)

It's easy to get big ideas of arrangement when hearing this kind of stuff... add strings and woodwind and maybe a harp... no, don't. This piece is great by itself - lovely side theme at 1:33 by the way! - don't change it, I think it's perfect.

Nice touch on that piano Tom, I would leave it alone, after all there are only 13 notes .  Well worthy of a for your playing alone.