Seeg | Rift | Piano

corresponding video here:
https://youtu.be/8_uz5yWeXKw

I met Seeg just through instagram, to be honest. There's such a relatively small number of prog-ish piano folks so it was inevitable that we'd cross paths, and turns out that we live close to each other as well! He came out to an Aviations show a few years ago, and we've chatted on and off since about piano things & recording things. When he was working on his newest album he hit me up to add a short solo to the epic closing track, and I did my best. The album is really a surprise, a thickly textured varietous uplifting progrock experience with some gospel influence. Lots of vocal layers, cool synths, and piano to tie things together, definitely go check it out.

My solo had a few goals to hit:

- lineup with the bass line riff because the rhythm was super cool
- write some phrases that go over the barline
- since the fundamental 7/8 grouping was pretty speedy, use that larger beat "full measure of 7/8" sensation to change up the subdivision. Fancier to describe than actually play to be honest, in practice it's a pretty simple feel change, but in notating it there ended up being some spots of like 4:7 and 5:7 where I just tried to fit a set number of notes smoothly within a measure, ignoring the underlying seven 8th note subdivisions. fun.

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