Peaceful Piano

The spring equinox has passed and the days are growing longer and lighter. This episode explores the feeling of spring with piano improvisation.

This episode shares the Ukraine National Anthem with a few gentle variations.

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Reflecting on the theme of peace, this episode creates gentle music that flows from a sad minor melody into a more hopeful resolve.

No theme to celebrate the 20th episode - just freeform gentle piano improvisation and it goes where it goes.

With the left hand and right hand playing in different keys, this episode explores the theme of unity and works towards a resolution.

This episode creates some gentle music around the theme of romance for Valentine's Day.

Triplets are sets of 3 notes that appear in rhythms that would normally be broken into 2 or 4 notes. Triplets create variation and this episode explores triplets through improvisation.

An octave is a relationship between two notes where one pitch is double the frequency of the other. Octaves are another building block of music and this episode explores improvising with them.

This episode plays around with the melody of "Au clair de la lune", a French folksong which translates to "by the light of the moon".

Playing in the deep end of the piano, below middle C. This episode embraces the low notes with improvisation.