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I made this song on my Mac as I do for all my music ... with a (fantastic) open source music scoring program, MuseScore. (What you are hearing is the program's rendition of the score using the TimGM6mb.sf2 SoundFont.)
I call this "a song sketch" because that's precisely what it is: a short exploration of a couple of motives I'm separately in the process of developing as one part of a longer and more complex piece still in the works. What we have here is Vibraphone with an 8th-note timing track on the closed hi-hat. (In other words, the hi-hats are intended strictly as a dummy placeholder.) Straight A-B-A construction. The A-part, in G minor, states a theme in four measures and a variation of sorts in the next four. Then the B-part, written as G# major (but I'm not sure it is...) states a different and more chromatic theme before returning to a slightly flourished repeat of A.
When I listen to this now, I'm of two minds. Is it "repetitive?" Does it, as some have suggested, introduce "too much too quickly," being over and done-with almost before it has begun? (Well, it IS "a sketch.") Any piece of music needs to have a structure without devolving into a "pasta salad" of conflicting ideas, and I do cautiously think that this piece does strike that balance acceptably well.
But I'd love to hear your suggestions and your reactions. That's what this sketch is meant for.
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(C) Copr. 2011. Enjoy it; just don't sell it.
I call this "a song sketch" because that's precisely what it is: a short exploration of a couple of motives I'm separately in the process of developing as one part of a longer and more complex piece still in the works. What we have here is Vibraphone with an 8th-note timing track on the closed hi-hat. (In other words, the hi-hats are intended strictly as a dummy placeholder.) Straight A-B-A construction. The A-part, in G minor, states a theme in four measures and a variation of sorts in the next four. Then the B-part, written as G# major (but I'm not sure it is...) states a different and more chromatic theme before returning to a slightly flourished repeat of A.
When I listen to this now, I'm of two minds. Is it "repetitive?" Does it, as some have suggested, introduce "too much too quickly," being over and done-with almost before it has begun? (Well, it IS "a sketch.") Any piece of music needs to have a structure without devolving into a "pasta salad" of conflicting ideas, and I do cautiously think that this piece does strike that balance acceptably well.
But I'd love to hear your suggestions and your reactions. That's what this sketch is meant for.
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(C) Copr. 2011. Enjoy it; just don't sell it.
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Nice ..