I was playing around with “Heart and Soul” one night recently. It’s one of the biggest cliche’s in all of piano music. When I was growing up, learning to play the piano, I can’t tell you how many of my peers came up to me and said “I can play the piano, too! See?” They’d proceed to play Heart and Soul. It’s has a very common (and useful) chord progression that’s instantly recognizable.
Of course, to simply play a cliche in a cliche manner is verboten, so I mixed it up metrically.
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I love to experiment with non-standard metrics. This piece is mostly in 5/4, with a few other odd, non-standard measures tossed in for good measure (pun intended)Download
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