C Minor Blues (aka Minor Third Blues)

First, a general announcement. Istrail Tunes will now being airing an episode every Monday morning.

Continuing with the piano theme, this week's Istrail tune is "C Minor Blues" from the album "Piano Grooves." It will be the coda to one of the tunes from my rock opera. I wrote this song in college as an assignment for a music theory class. We were asked to compose music based on an interval of our choice. I chose the minor third interval, used in many of my favorites blues songs (e.g. Muddy Waters' "Rollin' and Tumblin'" and Led Zeppelin's reworking of "When the Levee Breaks," originally written by Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie).

Here is "C Minor Blues"!
http://amiestreet.com/listen/song/shareListen/1210451/

The rest of my tunes so far:
http://amiestreet.com/leeistrail

Piano Opus

Welcome to the inaugural blog post of "Istrail tunes"! Each week, I'll be sharing one or more of my original tunes with you. This used to be a an email-based series, but figured a blog would be more fun. You will see back issues of "Lee's Song of the Week" on here as well, soon.

This week's installment is "Piano Opus," from the album, "Piano Grooves." This song is the first one that is part of the rock opera I am working on. It was written against the background of optimism and shifting sands that freshman year of college brings. Cast your memory back to that time and dig it (you can listen and download for free):
http://amiestreet.com/listen/song/shareListen/1210449/

The song is on the site Amie Street. You can find more tunes (listen and download) at:
http://amiestreet.com/leeistrail