This is a work in progress but considering it may be a long time before I finish it I may as well post it as is 'cause I'm getting old.  I wrote this piece for my granddaughter Tj who is growing into a magnificent butterfly herself.  It depicts all the stages beginning with two butterflies meeting, the egg's butterfly dreaming, the larvae (Caterpillar) munching holes in the cabbage leaves, the pupa (Chrysalis) throbbing with pulsating life and the adult free flying butterfly stage. I have used both a keyboard and my old upright piano which sounds amazing but the felts and pedals etc need a lot of costly work and so the mechanics are noisy. I have played the guitar most of my life but I have a problem with nodules on my fingers now and so am teaching myself the piano. I hope you enjoy this piece. 


For Tj, my butterfly.wav

This is a work in progress but considering it may be a long time before I finish it I may as well post it as is 'cause I'm getting old.  I wrote this piece for my granddaughter Tj who is growing into a magnificent butterfly herself.  It depicts all the stages beginning with two butterflies meeting, the egg's butterfly dreaming, the larvae (Caterpillar) munching holes in the cabbage leaves, the pupa (Chrysalis) throbbing with pulsating life and the adult free flying butterfly stage. I have used both a keyboard and my old upright piano which sounds amazing but the felts and pedals etc need a lot of costly work and so the mechanics are noisy. I have played the guitar most of my life but I have a problem with nodules on my fingers now and so am teaching myself the piano. I hope you enjoy this piece. 

For Tj My Butterfly song.mp3

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I love spontaneous improvisation with other musicians. I started playing guitar in the 1960s and have pretty much tried most genres (other than punk, heavy metal etc) but with a heavy leaning towards folk. In the nineties I played the sax, then sang A'Capella for about 15 years, learnt to play the Djembe and Ukelele and recently have begun creating ambient and contemplative instrumental pieces on guitar and piano. I am attempting to learn how to record at home now. 

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