I put on a drone tone and played improv on Amazing Grace, It Is Well and Come Thou Fount. What I liked was that I took my time, I would like to improv on going into the higher register and making it more dramatic.

Hello everyone! I`m very glad I found this group!!! I have been tortured with classical piano lessons during my teen years, hated them, played the recorder in a school orchestra, which I loved, stopped playing anything for around 35 years, started playing guitar to get away from classical music and returned to wind instruments 3 years ago by picking up the flute. I usually play rock / pop / folk, but discovered Händel a couple of weeks ago, so I am playing different styles. But I am rather addicted to sheets, I`m afraid. As I sometimes play with a colleague (piano / bass / guitar) and we would like to add improvisations a bit more I was looking for a way to approach that. And I think I have found the right place! I don`t have a lot of time so I might be very quiet from time to time. But I will try for sure. In my first meeting with Vic he asked me to create the sound of a turtle and a snail. My next job was a faster animal. So here - as a first attempt to post - is my 30 sec rabbit... (is this the correct category?) By the way - I am from Germany - so please excuse my mistakes!

"Let the light shine through" is just the title that came to me last night when uploading this clip from jamming with @Jessica Minahan! This song doesn't have a title yet, but I thought that was good enough for now. She thanked me for getting her on the piano! She's not only a flutist who's improving her improvising, but a skilled pianist too. Listen to her go! The audio quality's nowhere near perfect and the song's nowhere near complete but I wanted to share with you this moment because I thought it was beautiful nevertheless. I feel like it has a swimming, underwater quality. What do you think?

Here is an improv song I played for my neighbor’s horse. Just for the fun of it:) I played for him before and he ran away. So I decided to play low notes to keep it calm. You can hear my footsteps as I walked close to him and walked back. This is some of the fun we can have with improv. Haha 😂

One of the assignments Vic gave me for my lessons, is to play improv and include one of the hymns I am working on, in a public location where people can hear me. I went to a city park down the street and played. There were some people out and they heard me:) I like that I did it! I like that I incorporated It Is Well and had some ebb and flow. Next time, I would like to put my diva hat on and play with more dynamics and emotions. I felt a bit uncomfortable, but it is good exposure therapy:)