My compositions pretty closely reflect whatever mood I’m in when I write them. Chord progressions like this one, written in the early 1970s in my high school years, express the complex emotions most of us have at that age.

This one is an interesting piece. It begins in a rather ordinary way, but there are a couple of change-ups – the instrumental equivalents of a chorus and a bridge – that are quite unexpected and in fact rather rich and almost philosophic.

This was intended as an instrumental, but only the backing chords were recorded, as I intended to develop the lead instrument lines later.