Ballade for left hand only

[ronde_des_sylphes]

Experimental piece of improvisation. Fairly standard genre but presenting myself with the challenge of trying to maintain a decent sonic and expressive result using only the left hand. Sorry about the phone going off in the background near the end!)

Edit: video now added -

[ted]

You have succeeded in getting a musical result with one hand, which is the hard part. I expect we all do a fair bit of difficult, one-handed physical practice, but I imagine inventing playing forms which produce interesting music is an art in itself, especially with respect to rhythm. I seem to recall a thread of one-handed improvisations some years ago which produced one or two interesting ideas.

Found it:

https://www.pianostreet.com/smf/index.php?topic=39198.0

[ronde_des_sylphes]

Thanks.. and I'll try to take a look at the posted link, sounds interesting!

[furtwaengler]

Very smooth technique, and a nicely thought out improv with a structure.

[ronde_des_sylphes]

Thanks... firstly I think it helps that I've done work on a few lh only transcriptions, and secondly if it holds up structurally that's a fortuitous accident! The only things I remember consciously deciding to do were the modulations into the relative major for variety, and bringing back the opening statement to mark the beginning of the coda. Other than that, it was pretty much on impulse.