SEDstar vs Gecko, round #3, LMAO...

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I saw "the firm" several nights ago on TV, and found myself being drawn into the soundtrack. It was mostly (or all?) piano. WHoever DID it was pretty awesome. A lot of it was that "stabbing, frantic, tension laden" style... hot jazz, hot blues, ragtime... I cant even label the genre, just realzed the piano guy was awesome.

so's... I realize I only play around with Pent Min and Harmonic minor... started fooling around with blues scale. Ended up with this piece...

eh?

*shrugs*

I didnt realize the blues scale had such inherent "tension" in it, nor that you draw out so many chords and partial chords. No wonder its used so much...
 
The flattened bluesy notes have added a whole extra dimension to your work, and they generate an intense amount of interest, specially with the way you've constructed this.

With a minimalist approach you've managed something that fully retained my interest throughout.

I recognise that you have your own individual and unique approach to tune construction, which I expect will become your signature.

Being a jaded old fogey in constant need of stimulation, I still crave for something else in your work, and that is a contrast in feel. For example, in Nagtime (clever name!) I can just hear it breaking into a swing about halfway through and taking it somewhere unexpected.

Anyway, keep up the good work!
 
Media Fire ....

.... and my current configuration don't get along very well at all. Do you have the tune Nagtime posted anywhere else that I could give it a listen?
 
what th-... what manner of....??

Welcome back from thanksgiving vacation, Geck!

Thanks for the positive review.

(Is my old lady paying you off? LMAO, she might figure if I think I pulled somethign off I will find another hobby, or bettr yet a new job, hee hee)

I always said tongue in cheek...

"Wow honey, I've really arrived!"
"You have a fan online?"
"No, even better!"
"What?"
"A critic!!"
"Whats so great about that??"
"He's not happy with anything!!"
"SO?"
"I can never get any instruction. Criticism is advice, you twit."
"Let me see if I got this straight... You sit around all night, trying to make stuff, and no one wants to really hear it."
"Right..."
"Now, your happy someone is willing to be a critic and give you bad reviews?"

"Ecstatic!"

"Honey, I'd have mad fun of you years ago if thats what you wanted..."


LMAO

PS - seriously though, it still feels kind of weird to have you mildly approve of something... but thanks.

disclaimer: no free complimentary beer was involved in this review process. That is not to say alcohol was not involved anywhere in the review process, however.

PPS - SO... how do I get it into a hunting video or a porn soundtrack? LMAO... that was always my "target market", hee hee
 
the pianist/composer for that film is one of the current greats... dave grusin... he's the G in GRP records... way cool player... his brother is a sesion pianist as well (don)... if ya want a good disc to get a feel for what he does there's a cd of his movie soundtrack/themes available... i used it for demoing speakers while selling high-end stereos... cant seem to find it at the moment or i'ld give ya the title...
 
Hey, I likee....

....this tune. It is kind of "Elephant Walk" meets electronica. I agree with the gecko that a bridge is a must for this tune. I like the repeated themes and the key changes, I just feel that a completely different bridge/middle eight would put it over the top and make the repetition stand out and feel, well......a little less repetitious. Nice tune with great timing.
 
(scribbling notes down...lol)

elephant walk... "middle eight"... what defines "swing" as a musical style? LMAO
EDIT: you REALLY do NOT want to know what "elephant walk" means in todays world *shudder*, LMAO. Now that I have built it up? You'll have to go look (urbandictionary...), but trust me, you'll wish you had not. I assume you meant the old Mancini tune from the movie Hatari, eh? THAT should take some time to find, hee hee.

hello, wikipedia, I guess...lol

my memory tells me "swing" is a system of dotting every other note for a peculiar sound... I'll have to wiki that as well, I guess...
EDIT: simplest form (many definitions...) of "swing" is a system of triplets superimposed over a steady 4/4 beat, with the middle of the tuplets deleted into a rest. Huh... was finally able to geta coherent percusson after that idea, thanks. I think that "made it", and it now plays and moves around much more coherently... when I finish with the percussion, I'll definitely re-post it... came out a lot better.

thanks guys...

PS - the only experience I ever had with "swing" is that the movie "escape from new york", ernest borgnine was the cabbie, and everytime he was driving, he was listening to big band swing? LMAO. No wonder I was having rtouble bringing in percussion, I was going for straight 4/4 timing and such, LMAO. The slight polyrhythm of the swing beat really made it. Has a definite "groove" thing now. wow...

thanks again for the swing idea. I have so little experience with jazz I forgot I once learned things like swing, naningo beats, tarantella, etc etc when studying percussion when younger at lessons. decades of rock and pop gets you into 4/4 and 8/4, period, LMAO
 
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(scribbling notes down...lol)

elephant walk... "middle eight"... what defines "swing" as a musical style? LMAO
EDIT: you REALLY do NOT want to know what "elephant walk" means in todays world *shudder*, LMAO. Now that I have built it up? You'll have to go look (urbandictionary...), but trust me, you'll wish you had not. I assume you meant the old Mancini tune from the movie Hatari, eh? THAT should take some time to find, hee hee.
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I was indeed writing of the old Mancini tune. I will trust your judgement in telling
I would rather not know the urban definition. So I won't look it up. I have no need to disgust myself. The mirror does that well enough.:eek::eek:
 
swing isn't the dotted eigth idea... it's more of a tripelet where the first two are tied together...
 
thanks demented.

yah, I found that when i went looking on Wiki. Went with triplets over a 4/4 base, middle of each triplet deleted. Made the swing sound. Short of going back to ground zero and changing the whole time base, that was one way of using "swing".

I did NOT know there were so many definitions of "swing", lol, and that was just in music (modern relationships excepted, hee hee)

PS - in my thread above "NagTime has percussion" you can hear the resultant with percussion and a little french horn section. Now... WHICH drum beat had the dotted eigths?? (I once studied this as a wee lad, lol) At one time, you could say "we were thinking of kind of a Naningo beat...", and I would look at sheet music and start doing a very proper Naningo beat, LMAO. (Trust me, there was no call for that... ever. *sigh*)

That was the odd thing when I started trying to learn to compose. I could already read sheet music and time signatures properly, LMAO. I could count up FACE and EGBDF, read time signatures, rests, repeats and measures. I intrinsically understood each NOTE was a piano key, just like each line in drum sheet music was another piece of the "kit"...

I would sit there going "How in the ^%$# do I pick the notes?" LMAO
 
anothet thing you can try is think of the third note as a pick-up to thennext.... the draw back here is some end up speeding up when your try to play behind the beat more....
 
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