Music I love

A blast from the past, originally published February 2, 2011

It’s possible that no one else will ever love Meanwhile on Foot the way I do. It has no melody. It starts and ends on the “wrong” chord, an inversion of the tonic instead of root position. It doesn’t really do much at all. It’s in the simplest A-B-A form imaginable. It has a weird number of measures — sounds very “square” but isn’t. But it does have cool chords! Extremely cool chords! And I love it, in all of its minimalistic unprepossessing glory.

I’m fairly convinced, though, that it is going to be my wallflower child. If, after Drivin! comes out, even one person ever tells me they just love Meanwhile on Foot, I will be out of my mind with joy.

And no, that’s not a hint! It’s not even a request.

Updated 7/8/26 to add:

Amazingly — and bringing me great joy — Meanwhile on Foot has actually been learned by one of my piano students AND learned and performed by a pianist friend in Santa Fe!!! A decade+ ago, I did not imagine either of those possibilities.