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album: Vision Questtrack 1: 3:20 Vision Quest track 2: 4:49 Falling track 3: 7:28 Nothing track 4: 1:11 Snow Squall track 5: 4:22 We Lost Touch track 6: 1:36 Time For Peace track 7: 8:04 Oblate Oblivion track 8: 8:23 Little Orb track 9: 12:54 Tripping track 10: 6:35 Soaring The Thermals track 11: 4:10 People (Running Through My Mind) ...more albums... Song Description **************************************** U P D A T E i reworked the chord progression and the modulation scheme of this song into something entirely different. but it's the same chords believe it or not! http://www.macjams.com/song/37195 **************************************** It might be best to listen before reading all this crazy stuff. rather mathematical this one it started with the title that led to the idea of an endlessly descending 12-tone scale. the scale starts at Ab that led to a chord progression with a 10 beat length. the chords are: E G B C# E B Asus4 A C G each time the chords repeat they start 2 half-steps up from before picked out the notes from the chords that persisted for 2 or 3 beats as the primary notes for the main melody line built a 20 beat melody constrained to only using notes directly from the chords, and being sure to not reuse notes from the first half in the second half (important in a moment) built a second 10 beat melody made up of the left-over notes from the chords not used by either the first or second half of the 20 beat melody then arranging proceeded from these elements the whole song is built of repeated playing of the 10 beat cycle. every 6 times around is 60 beats. the endless scale (12 beats) fits in there exactly 5 times started with piano playing portions of the chords building to playing them fully then the flute plays the 10 beat melody through a full-circle of 5 repeats the percussion comes in to help the listener stay oriented as more elements enter (also, the gong introduces each of the changes coming up) an oboe then echoes the full-circle next, the french horns play the 20 beat melody for a full-circle 10 beats into the second repeat of the full-circle, a second section of horns come in again suitably modulated (up 2) the melody is a round due to its construction from notes only from the chords, and is a counterpoint of the 10 beat melody as well then the voices sing the chords for a full-circle finally, the endless scale slowly fades in, as all the rest fall away and the endless scale fades out This chart might help clear things up, or else muddy the waters further? This is like a GarageBand note editor, low pitches towards the bottom, high pitches towards the top, time goes left to right. The blue blocks show each repeat of the chord progression. |
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