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This is a piece of music written by Padowan_Learner ("http://www.icompositions.com/artists/padowan_learner"), re-recorded with GarageBand instruments by Drakonis.
The original piece can be heard here for comparison:
"http://www.icompositions.com/music/song.php?sid=85890"
Padowan_Learner's original Notes:
This is my first upload since the "Big iComp Crash of '08." I let myself go through withdrawal during the downtime, and I've subsequently forced myself to stay completely away for a while, so I could get caught up on work and several projects that absolutely had to get done ASAP.
The "upside" of my self-imposed sabbatical is that one of the projects I had to focus on was finishing up drafts of the music for the two upcoming Trans-Iowa Canal Co.(tm) shows. So I've now got several things in the ol' personal catalog that I can share here; how soon I post them depends on how much "final" tweaking I decide to do before I decide I'm sick of mucking around with 'em, and just post the darn things.
But this one is a relatively decent draft that's fairly listen-able. And if it sounds a tad familiar, well... let's just say some of us can't afford the big bucks for royalties on original songs, so I have to kluge together my own homemade versions of this stuff. This is not -- repeat, not -- a cover. It's an original piece that's, um... "inspired" by the original. Yeah, that's it... inspired...
(Hey, let's face it -- no one listening to the two pieces back to back is going to mistake mine for the original. See, I go up where the original goes down, and I go backwards where the original goes forwards, and... ah, forget it. Methinks the composer doth protesteth too much, LOL!)
Drakonis Notes:
When I heard this music, I marveled at the playful fun of Jeannette's composition, and I wished the instruments sounded more realistic, since I felt this piece deserved to sound like it was played by a real orchestra. When I discovered we both used the same composition software (Harmony Assistant), I contacted Jeannette and asked if I could tinker with this piece, to see if I could play it via GarageBand's Symphony Jampack, and she graciously agreed. She allowed me to change one violin note near the beginning, but the rest is exactly the same as her original piece. I did a fair amount of tweaking as I re-assigned instruments, trying to get levels and fermatas to work out properly in GarageBand. And this is the result... hopefully much closer to what she was hearing in her mind. Thank you again Jeannette for allowing me this opportunity! I really enjoyed working with your music, and I look forward to more collaborations someday, perhaps?
The original piece can be heard here for comparison:
"http://www.icompositions.com/music/song.php?sid=85890"
Padowan_Learner's original Notes:
This is my first upload since the "Big iComp Crash of '08." I let myself go through withdrawal during the downtime, and I've subsequently forced myself to stay completely away for a while, so I could get caught up on work and several projects that absolutely had to get done ASAP.
The "upside" of my self-imposed sabbatical is that one of the projects I had to focus on was finishing up drafts of the music for the two upcoming Trans-Iowa Canal Co.(tm) shows. So I've now got several things in the ol' personal catalog that I can share here; how soon I post them depends on how much "final" tweaking I decide to do before I decide I'm sick of mucking around with 'em, and just post the darn things.
But this one is a relatively decent draft that's fairly listen-able. And if it sounds a tad familiar, well... let's just say some of us can't afford the big bucks for royalties on original songs, so I have to kluge together my own homemade versions of this stuff. This is not -- repeat, not -- a cover. It's an original piece that's, um... "inspired" by the original. Yeah, that's it... inspired...
(Hey, let's face it -- no one listening to the two pieces back to back is going to mistake mine for the original. See, I go up where the original goes down, and I go backwards where the original goes forwards, and... ah, forget it. Methinks the composer doth protesteth too much, LOL!)
Drakonis Notes:
When I heard this music, I marveled at the playful fun of Jeannette's composition, and I wished the instruments sounded more realistic, since I felt this piece deserved to sound like it was played by a real orchestra. When I discovered we both used the same composition software (Harmony Assistant), I contacted Jeannette and asked if I could tinker with this piece, to see if I could play it via GarageBand's Symphony Jampack, and she graciously agreed. She allowed me to change one violin note near the beginning, but the rest is exactly the same as her original piece. I did a fair amount of tweaking as I re-assigned instruments, trying to get levels and fermatas to work out properly in GarageBand. And this is the result... hopefully much closer to what she was hearing in her mind. Thank you again Jeannette for allowing me this opportunity! I really enjoyed working with your music, and I look forward to more collaborations someday, perhaps?
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Roxylee
Hmm.. i went to hear the original and it seems its been deleted. Oh, well, even without a comparison, this is superb instrumentation of an excellent original composition. :-)