Welcome to Candyland, @Nightowl 🎉
Oh yes - this sounds blue, all the blue chords, and the blue notes (Eb is the "blue note", but don't ask me, why. Maybe because Eb to E bending on saxophones is used so often - we pianists slide) - this makes the soul and the spirit of a Blues. It is strange, Blues sounds so different to everything classical or contemporary - even if we press the same 12 black and white keys over and over again. Yours sounded like such a Blues.
I would say, this is a successful premiere for you in this hatred genre. Well played! Even with quite much of confidence - despite the red-button syndrome. (My last recording took me an entire day, probably I did most of my practicing work during my recording attempts.... But officially, I blame the red button syndrome.)

You said, you didn't spend too much time at this Blues, which is even more impressive. Told you, Blues is the easiest genre - except of Nursery songs, maybe.

This piece doesn't sound very difficult to my ears, especially the LH has little chord changes, freeing your attention to be focused on RH melody. If you want, you can try out Christians very first lesson of his Blues Piano for Beginners playlist. (No sheet music required for the first lessons) Compared to your piece, his RH is stupid easy, but his LH is beefed up because you have to change the chord every 2nd note. Sophia called the LH pattern as Humptee-dumptee, and I kinda agree because this is repeated so often until you dream of it. But it is a very good exercise for hand independence. I remember when I did the lesson - I was so proud after I mastered it. I felt like being John Lee Hooker.

    WOW Nightowl!!!!!!! That is ADORABLE... yes you are a bloody beginner at blues, but in no time you will be promoted to lovely beginner, which is where I am right now. Christian himself promoted me in one of his videos. Which makes the course worth it just for that moment, haha!! ðŸĪĄ

    That is such a fun piece and you played it with confidence and happiness, well done! <now I must sneak off and whisper into WieWaldi's ear on how we can entice you even more into the wonderful colourful world of blues>

      In what lesson had you been promoted to a lovely beginner? Because in lesson 6 you were still a bloody beginner, so it must have been a bit later. ðŸ˜ĩ

      Correct 😃 It happened in lesson 9. I know he said it casually... but I took that as a definite promotion anyway.

      I have been a lovely beginner ever since and even updated my avatar

      WieWaldi Thanks WieWie! I'm pleased that you can hear the blues in my playing - maybe I picked up a thing or two watching the videos on this thread. 🙂 By the way, I never said I hated this genre (although I might have said something similar about certain dire pieces from Alfred's books).

      Sophia Thanks, high praise indeed, but I am a long way from being a "lovely beginner"! I remain a bloody beginner - I know my place! 😁

      "Don't let's ask for the moon, we have the stars." (Final line from Now,Voyager, 1942)

            Nightowl I remain a bloody beginner

            For now, and only when it comes to blues 😃 It is unavoidable, we all start there. Of course WW has reached "total beginner" (he missed out on being a lovely beginner because he didn't pay attention)

            We all agree that we will remain "beginner" for eternity, but at least he put together a whole list of all the beginner stages we can look forward to.
            That should keep us busy for quite a while...

                Sophia (he missed out on being a lovely beginner because he didn't pay attention)

                  Edit, and now for some more "serious" (yeah right) fun, this popped up in my YT feed... I love it!

                  4 days later

                  I still haven't started my new blues lesson - though I did try to learn my next Alfred piece. I'll get going soon, I promise! I still need to buy Christian's blues pieces book - and I will.

                  Meanwhile, I purchased the score of Sax and Violence... maybe in a hundred years I can play it like this:

                  THIS!
                  This is how you can stack your Yamaha on your Yamaha. And use the Sax-sound of your Yamaha, while you play piano on your Yamaha. And with a keyboard split on your Yamaha, you can do the triangle sound on your Yamaha, too. Hurry up, and put your Yamaha on your Yamaha.

                  1-2-3-...7-8..... Yamaha! Yamaha! (Yamaha grants me a discount, if I write Yamaha 10 times, 12 times ðŸĪŠ)

                  Right???? That's how I envisioned my need for dual pianos 😎 Or I could try to train our music loving Simba to do all that... I'm sure he would be happy to use one of the kitten heads for the "cloink" sound...

                  But yeah I really enjoyed that video. Even though it was a little off topic 😋 I always liked the Muppet Show and even more since I got married... I shall share why that is. If you really insist on reading it, sit down, grab a cup of for a long, boring and completely off topic story... don't say you weren't warned ðŸĪŠ

                  My husband was a professional child actor (both stage and film). Of course he had to spend a lot of time on the set and became friends with a teenager who was always drawing situation sketches. For example at some point my husband started to grow a little too fast, and the other actors had to stand on boxes to maintain the height difference. Then his friend would create a cartoon around that...

                  Well, this talented young man became one of the creators of the Muppet Show and later Fraggle Rock, coming up with many of the creative ideas. So I guess that may explain at least partially why we're so fond of the zany creativity of that brilliant show 😄


                    Okay - this explains something. No wonder why you know everything about the Muppets. And also background stories...

                    Who is your husbands friend? (Jim Henson himself? No? Is he? Maybe Frank Oz?!?)

                    Would be happy to hear your first "Muppet-song", with two Yamahas stacked on top. But from hearing alone, I reckon this song is very difficult. For sure, it is beyond bloody beginner - maybe extended beginner, late beginner or (shock) eternal beginner - if not an amateur level.

                    Btw - I am currently pausing my blues journey. Got sheet music for a my fav Christmas song. Turned out, it is far beyond my level... After a week, I can play only a third of it with the third of the required speed, but three time more mistakes as acceptable.

                    Heh, oh yeah, my Muppet song is many many many many moons away still... if ever! But it's nice to dream 😃

                    So, back to reality for me too... I started the next blues lesson! It is the slow blues lesson with the punches. So far it's not very interesting, not like the Muppet punches between Mahna Mahna (I had to look up his name) and Zoot. Ok, speaking of Mahna Mahna, that's another song on my wish list! Oh yes, we said back to reality ðŸĪĢ

                    So I do have a question for you. The lesson starts like this:

                    It requires sliding the middle finger from F# to G, little finger stays on Bb. How did you manage to do that without pain? If I slide in between the keys, it hurts a little, even though I don't have fat fingers. But if I slide down towards the broad part of the white key, my little finger slides with it, sometimes even off the black key. So how did you manage it?

                    Also, are you going to give up on the Christmas song for this year and try again next year? It sounds like this is something you will be able to master, it just takes a little more time, right?

                    It feels kind of natural for me, now. In the beginning, it was weird to have the pinky up on a black key, but after 50 bottles of beer it became 2nd nature.
                    And there isn't any pain. I could play it all day long - the only risk is to get drunk again.

                    Thank you! I guess bottles of beer is the only thing I haven't tried yet! Good tip(sy)

                    It's good to ask, then you find an approach from all angles 😂

                    Sophia OMG I did wonder from a previous comment what your connection to the entertainment industry was. How very amazing!!

                      Well, I guess one good thing it did was enable me a little better to see behind the curtain of your Major-General performance, so to speak... and appreciate the extent of its greatness 😃

                      6 days later

                      I learned all four variations of the blues lesson, but it's not smooth yet. That'll be a few more days I'm guessing. Christian didn't offer any ending; this might be a good time to finally try to include one of TC's endings (I'm reposting that link here, because it took me 10 minutes of scrolling to find it back 😝).

                      Oh, I forgot to mention: I also purchased the 8 easy blues pieces 🙌 But I'm not printing it yet, because I don't want to be tempted before I finish this course!

                      I am still struggling with my Christmas song... I would be happy to get a recording of the first part only within this week. Don't have much time left, Christmas is coming and I am not at home then.

                      It sounds so lush and bluesy when Christian plays it, but he should put a warning on it:

                      DON'T TOUCH THIS AS A TOTAL BEGINNER... or similar... maybe it is even for an absolute beginner too challenging...