My practicing has been paying off.

This sounds substantially better, doesn't it? No edits this time either.

Same song: Reckoning, from Echo.

This time the audio quality is slightly nicer (and louder), and the execution improved, but is still very noticeably amateurish.

I also had to cut a lot of silence between the two parts since I take a while to move my hands, so the middle feels a bit awkward.

I improvised a bit in the end, but it's still fundamentally the way the keys are pressed. I love that section and I can just endlessly play it.

I also found out that my keys get slightly more silent if I keep some cloth beneath my music keyboard.

I was getting a couple of notes wrong in the last sample.

Now this uses the correct notes. And I repeated the first two measures instead of just playing them once, which was fairly challenging.

Also the clickety clack of my keyboard is kinda annoying.

I managed to play the beginning. :>

It's a bit slow, but I already acquired the necessary muscle memory! I just need to practice to make it more fluid.

To think this could have been the appearance of TJ Hess in Echo:

(art by Tuler / TairuPANdA)