new song ***FULL instrumentation***

[SEDstar]

http://www.mediafire.com/?zpr2d3yzuyd

News bulletins...

(1) as promised, here is the full orchestral version of my song. The other one was just a piano voicing to test the melody system.

(2) I am back on media fire, and registered this time, so it should stay working for me (and you! lol) and give the intrepid listener "single click" simplicity they expect from such services.

(3) Gecko... Fractals? you flatter me. thanks. you might appreciate it more with the other instruments.

(4) again Gecko...I have tried the velocity adjustments thing, and I dont always think the resultant is necessarily "better" than the flat version. you said YOU would love to take a "whack" at adjusting the velocity(s) at a midi level?? again, I am flattered. It was made in FL. The piano was FL-KEYS generator.

this probably comes from me not playing any instrument other than drums in real life. I compose "on paper" which in todays world is the computer (FL software) I vaguely know that one of the pedals on the piano makes every key you touch go on forEVER and EVER...LMAO I wouldnt even know how to go about doing that in my software (piano pedals...) much less what I am shooting for. I add a little reverb to the piano generator, and thats about it these days.


give it a listen with the full instrumentation... above link should work now...

 

[SEDstar]

good christ's throne...

this sounds like absolute SHITE on this web computers tinny little speakers... sounds much richer on my surround sound 5.1 setup on my music computer, and decent on my MP3 headphones player. Even decent on the speakers fo rthe mp3 player in the shower room... these compiter speakers blow goats, LMAO

I can only assume gecko has decent speakers...lol

 

[gecko zzed]

I got decent speakers . . . it sounds fine.

The added instrumentation works well, and really gives life to those plaintiff piano notes all by themselves at about 1:30, which, for some reason, is my favourite bit of the track . . . where everything reduces to a couple of notes.

I see now that you've assembled this in FL. I think that in a response to one of your other pieces sometime ago I speculated as to whether ti was done in FL; it has that kind of sound.

There's two ways you can go here. I like your quirky compositional ability. You put together stuff that's unusual and interesting, and there is inherent in it that FL stacatto rigidity. Possibly you can establish this as a 'trademark' of your pieces, and it becomes part of the overall package.

But I'm still interested in what can be achieved by taking it outside the Fl environment and introducing more legato. Variations in tempo might be interesting to. For example, I could easily imagine a subtle increase in tempo when all the instrumentation comes in . . . . you can imagine the conductor whipping up the orchestra . . . then dragging it down for the quiet bit in the middle.

I don't know whether it is possible to export a song as a midi file from FL, though I expect it is. As I said before, I would love to get my hands on the midifile and play with it.

 

[SEDstar]

on the technical theory side...

I have taken some minor heat (pun intended, lol) here and there for sticking it out with pentatonic minor. I tried other popular scales, but could never make them work particularly well, till now.

I think I figured out how to use harmonic minor (this piece). Its not a true harmonic minor scale, I modified it so my ears liked it more. One note in harmonic minor always stands out like a turd in the punch bowl, so I dropped it a semitone. Then, I found I was able to work in counterpoint with *my* modified harmonic minor (unless this is another scale I just dont know about...)

anytime I try somethign new, you can count on the trial piece being in Cminor. I'll see if I can use the IV and V like in Pent next time. This is in proper stage III counterpoint technique. Its really only 2 melodies, but they can be arranged in or out of time for the variations.

I know what you mean about the solitary notes places, when i HEARD them, I knew I was onto something. You have no idea how many time I have tried for that "starting and stopping" sound, and the trailing off notes like that, lol...

I was gonna try to see if my modified harm min scale will let me arrange a guitar song as an exercise, but I guess I will see if I can grant your wish to play with it in a midi. Hells Bells, FL is a midi package basically, there has to be som way to do it, I hope.

PS - remember I made you promise to tell me when you thought somethign was worthy of being sold for "porn music" or "hunting video" backing music. (or a toothpaste commercial, video game, anything really...) It would be a rush to cash a check, even if it was a small one, lol.

I dont care if they want to use one of my tracks to torture Guantanamo bay detainees, as long as someone gives me a few bux. *shrugs* WHo knows? "might get more results than waterboarding them" lmFao.....