This one is just a “music painting” of what I imagine it feels like when it’s been raining for a while (remember, I live in Seattle and it’s currently the Big Dark) and the sun peeks its head out for a minute. Get ready, because I’m gonna drop a certain word here and I know it sounds pretentious, but it’s the best fit. This piece is a piano étude (sorry, sorry) with a little bit of effects mischief creeping around the edges.

Musically, it’s not that fancy. Halfway through, we switch from 4/4 to 6/4. We start out in Bb minor, and gradually transition to the relative major of C# as we progress. This is an obvious choice considering the subject matter. Harmonically, we stay mostly diatonic, except for that mischievous major seventh on some of the V chords. I did some fun stuff with suspended chords as well — their ambiguity is really useful to help tie the major scale second half to the minor scale beginning. And of course, we end on a nice C#6/9 chord, as a reminder that those wet yards and streets will need a while before they dry off.

This is just the Kontakt Grandeur grand piano patch, with some reverb, pitch-shifting, and reverse reverb effects.