I had a lot of musical input over the weekend and was a little at a loss for how to sift through it and create a song for today. To provide some structure, I decided to do a little skill building by improvising in 5/4. Since I still struggle with improvising in odd meters, I composed today’s song while listening to a metronome through headphones.

I’m always interesting in what happens to the melodic content of my improvisations when I place a lot of focus on another area. About two-thirds of the way through today’s song, I recall having the thought that I needed to introduce more space into the melody, which led me to singing longer tones. That, in turn, led to some interesting exploration in tone color.

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