Posted : 10/21/2022
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Posted 10/21/2022Purple Carrot
Inspiration strikes
We're hungry, I know what I'm going to eat. I always know! My wife is ruminating, looking at the frozen food selection, muttering to herself. She sees a frozen meal that she may or may not want, and says, "Purple Carrot."
Not an ad!
Apparently you can get these frozen meals from Target and other stores! There's also a delivery service but that is not pertinent to this story—such that it is.
Silliness ensues
Upon hearing the words purple and carrot in the cadence she spoke them, I ran (walked briskly) to the piano and played the main riff of the tune. I wrote it down and we ate.
After dinner, desert...
I added one of those bebop type bridges, but a bit different I think. I had to fix a few notes and I was done! The initial version had a bunch of altered chords but I thought I'd simplify it. It seemed to make more sense with dominant chords. I figured whoever played it would add their own alterations on it as necessary.
The chart
I always love it when composers don't supply any instructions for a piece of music. Not sense of tempo or style. I was being sarcastic and laughing at myself but actually, it could be played as you see fit. The B section is swing. When I'm at the piano, the rest is rather funky but it should still swing (or not). Have fun!
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Photo by Shaun Meintjes (@shaunmcreatives) on Unsplash