I’m a bit blue.
Today was another rough day. My friend, the one who I learned has cancer, said something that hurt my feelings. Maybe there are times when a person in pain is looking for soft targets to hit, so others feel pain too. Anyway, ouch. Not so much an example of a friendly universe.
But in my piano lesson today, I was learning about the blues and blues improvisation. My teacher and I played a bit of a two-piano duet, with me instructed to try and echo what she played. What a lot of fun that was. I learned that rhythm is particularly important in blues music. Maybe that’s obvious to you, reader, but I’m more used to thinking about melody and harmony. This will be fun, working more on this.
Evidence of a friendly universe: the blues, as an example of fun music for improvising.