Why this tune?
This week’s tune is another daily project in the January song-a-day challenge organized by Kat and Sarah from Songwriting For Music Educators. After years as a technology developer and manager, I learned that everyone wants to change, but nobody wants to do anything different. That remained just a grumble until my wife (and friends) suggested that I should finally write a song about it. Since I’m writing a song a day I’m always on the lookout for material. It took a couple of days to figure out the story that could express that idea in song form. The music borrows liberally from Herbie Hancock’s “Dolphin Dance.”
Once again, I went back to a 32-bar AABA song form for this one, which seems to be my “natural” musical and lyrical home.
Please follow my progress on Instagram to hear the rest of this month’s creations.
Oren Levine, jazz pianist and songwriter 