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I never ordinarily post non-original work - no cover versions, arrangements and on. This one is an arrangement of sorts so...bad.. It started when a student friend and I were looking through some of my recordings of old fashioned pop songs to build a folio in the hope of winning a few bookings at receptions and other events once lockdown is over. Most were "improvisations" although I'd choose the best takes, even cheating to learn a good improvisation. Several were quite flashy and flashy is not wanted at receptions where subtlety and background music is needed. Anyway, she suggested some pieces could be turned into easy studies that might help players wanting to be a bit more elaborate. Coming from the classical I'm a bit unorthodox this sort of music. As they were recorded on midi it seemed feasible. Except the worst was cleaning up the piano roll so it could convert to a meaningful manuscript. Anyway, here's one, a kind of fantasia on the tune (usually played very up-tempo, this one's quite slow and the mp3 won't tie up totally with the music. I don't know if the idea will work or has any mileage. If you're of a mind to comment on any aspect of the thing, thank you and it will be much appreciated.

Hi all, I did some more tweaking on this piece. I will go over it with my mentor 1 more time. What do you think? Suggestions always welcome. The title says it all~!

Knowing what to do and when to do it. Believe me, a lot of composers aren't very good at it. You're obvious a natural.

Thank you for listening and your detailed comment. I always knew something was wrong with the fonte, I couldn't put my finger on it and attempted to fix it but got stuck. I composed this piece via improvising and when I sat down to listen to the recording of me playing the piano and jot down the notes I found the fonte phrase was an odd length so had to adjust it but never found a satisfactory solution. Now I know why! Thank you very much for your suggestion, I will play it and correct my work. Im currently building a piece from this improvisation.

@PeterthePapercomPoser The Passacaglia variation is probably one of the most awesome pieces from that time.

I thought I'd mention this set of variations of "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" by Ernst von Dohnanyi: (I set the video to start after the boring and overblown introduction which is meant to give a melodramatic and ultimately comic effect when the theme comes in on the piano)

Yes? Thank you for listening and your brief but kind comment....well I hope it was + rather than minus! but...whatever. As a study I've been told the written music is cluttered and more difficult to understand than play!