Nature Sketch for New Age Piano: 'Fall Reflections'

[quiescen]

This improvisation turned out to be a mini-composition. It started with just playing around as always. Once I get the theme, I write out the first 2-bars and improvise through to complete the first 8-bars or (A) section.

[Derek]

I like some of the chord changes in there. Nice.

[ted]

Yes, I especially like the one at 1:19 - 1:21. You use few notes, Edward, but always very purposeful phrasing; nothing is wasted. I, on the other hand, tend to produce torrents of notes to very variable effect. I think your phrasing, in particular, has developed over the last year or so. People talk a lot about harmony in improvisation as if there were nothing else, but without phrasing and rhythm, a feeling that something is being said, the most sophisticated harmonic sequence is merely chord practice.

[quiescen]

Thanks Ted and Derek. Phrasing ... thanks for the remark on that as well.