Blooper Reel

SmokeyVW

Genre: Celtic

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album: Our Local Cluster
track 1: 3:12 CA67
track 2: 3:12 Do I Know You?
track 3: 2:21 I Am A Cat
track 4: 3:50 Luv
track 5: 3:04 Just Occasionally Still
track 6: 5:44 Departure
track 7: 4:48 Dissociation Break
track 8: 2:08 Ack Ack
track 9: 6:49 Listlessness
track 10: 4:07 Just A Meter
track 11: 5:02 It Slowly Dawned
track 12: 2:19 grg
track 13: 1:18 Singer
track 14: 2:30 Blooper Reel
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A reel.

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Hits: 1784
Comments: 12
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Uploaded: Sep 14, 2006 - 09:14:19 PM
Last Updated: Sep 19, 2008 - 12:07:03 PM Last Played: Jul 16, 2010 - 09:02:34 PM

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Schello	Schello said 1414 days ago (September 15th, 2006)
	,-) first album?---ohhh good luck Smo. Ballad and great time! Check out my latest song called Snozz'en (Cronik Mix)

	said 1283 days ago (January 24th, 2007)
	Wow! I listen to a lot of celtic folk and folk-rock, so I really enjoyed this one. I don't know why you called it Blooper Reel though. A better title would be "smokey kisses the blarney stone." LOL! Nice work! Slainte!

SmokeyVW	SmokeyVW said 1282 days ago (January 24th, 2007)
	. it was simply that this is supposed to be a "reel." lots of movie these days seems to have outtakes or "blooper reels" of actors flubbing their takes. thus the name. no flubbing per se, but hopefully at least a reel effort... thanks for commenting! Check out my latest song called Transformer Altar (Live Wire)

Jointlock	Jointlock said 1269 days ago (February 7th, 2007)
	nice job nice job, but I think the scaling is a bit off. The changes sound too much like an Italian or Jewish folk song. I might look at the intervals and chords again. Check out my latest song called The Smooth Latin

SmokeyVW	SmokeyVW said 1268 days ago (February 7th, 2007)
	. hi - thanks for dropping by and listening. i am very intrigued by what you mean by scaling. can you describe a this little more - or point out some examples? i'd love to understand how to make this little attempt at a reel more authentic sounding... thanks! Check out my latest song called Transformer Altar (Live Wire)

Jointlock

Jointlock said 1267 days ago (February 8th, 2007)

define scaling
It is not a hard and fast rule, but generally speaking celtic music does conform to this principal, since celtic is based on modal scales that predate traditional classical music theory. Songs with major sounding music are usually in the Ionian and Mixolydian mode. Minor sounding in the Dorian and Aeolian modes. If you play the appropriate scale on the piano it will show the corresponding sharps and flats that will fit these patterns. Play only the white keys.
Ionian- start on C (same as C Maj)
Mixolydian- start on G
Dorian- start on D
Aeolian- start on A
This should give you the appropriate intervals etc. that usually make up the "celtic" sound. Like I said that is just a startng point, it can be much more complex, but that will help.

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SmokeyVW

SmokeyVW said 1267 days ago (February 9th, 2007)

modulation
thanks for the details. a couple of follow up questions, in the interest of being true to the Celtic sound.

the chords are currently:

Dm/// Am/// Dm/// Am/Dm/
Dm/// Am/// Dm/// Am/Dm/
Gm/// F/// C7/// F///
Gm/// F/// C7/// F/A7/

1. is it OK to modulate from D Dorian to G Dorian? the obvious trouble is that i need to use Bb which is not strictly in D Dorian, if it goes against the style to modulate. i experimented and tried modulating to G Mixolydian - which sounds nice, but it sounds "Major" due to the B natural. so it changes the character of the song significantly. but perhaps that's the point: it will sound more Celtic that way.

2. assuming the modulation is OK, that final A7 to lead back to Dm is an obvious violation of G Dorian (and it's not even in D Dorian either!) would it be more consistent with the Celtic style to use a Am7? or is even the use of sevenths problematic? (and i messed around with other intervals as well in the strings, maybe that was going way too far?)

thanks!

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Jointlock

Jointlock said 1266 days ago (February 10th, 2007)

modulating
between modes is fine, 3rd's, open fifths and 6th's are fine, but avoid the sevenths....I suspect that the 7th's in the melody line are what changed the sound in the way I was referring to. If you are keyboard player (I am not) you could play out the melody and see if there are any Maj 7 structures, or minor for that matter. Try dropping them to a 6th or 5th or 3rd and see how it sounds.

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you plan to fail when you fail to plan

Check out my latest song called The Smooth Latin

SmokeyVW	SmokeyVW said 1264 days ago (February 11th, 2007)
	. cool. that helps a lot. i'll be trying out a few variations on this... they'll be posted sometime soon! Check out my latest song called Transformer Altar (Live Wire)

said 1187 days ago (April 30th, 2007)

I love this one!
Even though I can only get it to play a few bars! My laptop computer is a second hand POS. So that is probably why it won't let me listen to the whole piece! I love Celtic music (have you ever heard "The Mummers Dance" by Loreena McKennitt?! Album - "The Book of Secrets"?) Please compose some more of this type of music. There is amazing harmonic beauty in Celtic music, and a mystic quality - the goddess and the green man. Loreena McKennitt has an amazingly beautiful voice!

SmokeyVW	SmokeyVW said 1184 days ago (May 3rd, 2007)
	. maybe a celtic Muse will come my way on some soft day when i'm ready to listen... thank you Check out my latest song called Transformer Altar (Live Wire)

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