Am I So Wrong?

Written and Recorded in 1993

 

As a composer who mainly plays the guitar, I wrote some instrumental compositions for solo guitar. According to my self-assessment, a thing simply called ‘For Guitar, No. 1 in D Minor’, which I wrote in 1989, was the best stuff I wrote in this genre so far. Three and a half years later, when this tune was written, I thought it would be plausible to call this tune in the same manner; ‘For Guitar, No. 2 in D Major.’ The reason why I changed my mind to treat this tune not Absolute Music but Programme Music under a title of ‘Am I So Wrong?’ lied on some changes in circumstance where I lived. But I do not want to go into the detail. Instead, I would rather like to just say that I was no longer an optimistic student, who could enjoy naming my own composition in a snobbish way, by that time. One more thing I want to add to this description about the title of this tune is, that the words are specifically addressed to a girl, who made me measuring the weight of my own art/music against her value weighed on normal people's day-to-day life.  

 

Finally, I have to confess that I have borrowed some knowledge I learned by ear and gained from practicing to play Steve Howe’s Mood for a Day for writing this tune.