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| Tom Atwood said 1658 days ago (May 12th, 2005) | |
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:) As usual, Peter, your comments are right on target, and the issues you raise are things I thought about before posting this. Like you, I also miss the rundown piano, but thought I would give the digital a try. Maybe I am like a monkey, attracted to shiny objects? And I also continue to debate when, where and how to bring in those flutes. I tried easing them in, but given the 'broken' nature of this piece, thought a more sudden, jarring approach might work better. I may revise this again, based on your comments. Thanks for the careful listen. Check out my latest song called Keep Looking for Jesus (MJRF)
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| White Hawks said 1658 days ago (May 12th, 2005) | |
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Emotional this song is very emotional. and i like it. it's a beautiful piano pieace. thanks for sharing this great pieace Tom! - Jem Check out my latest song called Shepherds Out in the Field
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| Tom Atwood said 1658 days ago (May 12th, 2005) | |
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Emotional Thanks Jemimah. Good to see you are back. Hope school is going well. Check out my latest song called Keep Looking for Jesus (MJRF)
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| eleveneyes said 1658 days ago (May 12th, 2005) | |
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beautiful indeed I love the openess/sparseness of this piece. The way you weave in and out of varying degrees of consonance and dissonace is beautiful. much the way life is, pleasure and pain, beauty and ugliness, love and hate all happening at once. this is lovely. the only thing that bugged me was about 2/3rds the way through there's that thing playing a 1-e- -a 2- rhythm, i like the idea you were going for, but it distracted me a bit. that's the only thing. this is a very moving piece. thanks for posting. Check out my latest song called Here With You - Better MIX
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| Tom Atwood said 1658 days ago (May 12th, 2005) | |
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beautiful indeed Thanks Ray, for the kind words. I see that the addition of the flutes is more controversial than I thought it would be. I guess that's something I need to reconsider and revise. May have been an idea that just didn't quite work... Check out my latest song called Keep Looking for Jesus (MJRF)
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| TobinMueller said 1658 days ago (May 12th, 2005) | |
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Loss, incompleteness, affecting Excellent use of mood, intervals, space, sounds. Would be a great track at the end of a CD, if you want to leave people with a feeling of incompleteness and loss, since this is what it leaves me, in a emotional, affecting way. I listened several times; the first time the ending seemed abrupt, out of the blue, and I liked it less. The second time I experienced the loss and it was unsettling, compelling. Very well done. Check out my latest song called Forge A New Life (MJRF)
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| Jim Bouchard said 1658 days ago (May 12th, 2005) | |
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I know this is supposed to be New Age But I like the jarring flutes. That's probably my favorite part. They sound like mellotron flutes the Beatles might've used. Very cool direction to take this. Check out my latest song called Weather or Not w/awigze
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| Tom Atwood said 1658 days ago (May 12th, 2005) | |
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I know this is supposed to be New Age Thanks, Jim. That's one vote for the flutes. As for the New Age category, it just seemed like the closest category I could find. When I posted the original piano version, I put it in Classical. I never know where to put stuff? Thanks again. Check out my latest song called Keep Looking for Jesus (MJRF)
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| SlimGirlFat said 1658 days ago (May 12th, 2005) | |
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This is a truly beautiful piece of music Tom, very emotive and beautifully played. I dont mind the flute, although I agree with Pg that perhaps a slightly more gentle introduction would be better. but its such a minor picky thing in what is a truly lovely piece. Slimmie D/L Check out my latest song called Not Enough
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| drakonis said 1658 days ago (May 12th, 2005) | |
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broken smiles We are all broken, in one way or another. Being broken is being unique. I'd propose that it is not necessarily beautiful to be broken, but it is beautiful to accept the fact that I am broken, and even better to accept the broken nature of others. The alternative is to whine about everything, and that is definitely *not* beautiful :-) Oh, um, yah, back to your song! I didn't go back to find the original, but this is very poignant, masterfully played and paced. My only (minor) nit is that the reverb is a little heavy (to me) in headphones, and tends to create a lingering muddy high-midrange phase-haze that distracts from the exquisite melody. Beautifully contemplative, occasionally dissonant, very personal and human piece. Like the music of Beethoven, there is a great deal of depth in this short at-etude (Atwood-etude), and after listening to it a few times just now, I realize it is begging me to continue to listen to it, as it grows on me. I just scrolled down to read other comments just now, hmm, the flutes... I like them, just as I liked the occasional 2nd on the piano. I thought they were a little surprising coming from nowhere near the end, so maybe instead of fading them in, why not pre-announce them earlier in the piece, just a short flutter about 1/3 of the way in? Overall, this was a deeply somber, intimate soulful mood piece. I feel compelled to politely thank you for sharing something so touching. DLed, faved, 9-7-9-8! ttfn, Drakonis Check out my latest song called Lullaby for the Inner Child
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| Del said 1657 days ago (May 12th, 2005) | |
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broken smiles I just had to say that your comments are marvelous. Check out my latest song called The Androgyne
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| stevel said 1658 days ago (May 12th, 2005) | |
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mmm nice I really like this...very nice piano tune. It is very evocative.. read your description there ' a broken life' sounds quite heavy but I guess as the Dylan song says 'everything is broken'. I will download this one S Check out my latest song called Electricity
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| Swanny said 1657 days ago (May 12th, 2005) | |
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Like The Piano Lost me with the annoying Sketchy Sax... Check out my latest song called Chillin
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| Tom Atwood said 1656 days ago (May 14th, 2005) | |
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Like The Piano Thanks Swanny. I will put that down as a 'no' vote on the flutes... Check out my latest song called Keep Looking for Jesus (MJRF)
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| Mystified said 1657 days ago (May 13th, 2005) | |
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Masterful ....This is absolutely gorgeous and piercingly poignant. What a beautiful eloquence this composition has, though free of a single word. So well done. Thank you. Check out my latest song called For the Beauty of the Earth
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| bronco said 1657 days ago (May 13th, 2005) | |
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Beaufiful Calming Piece Let's see, a broken instrument, a broken heart, a broken life. Nahh, none of those sound familiar. Seriously very moving piece, felt it reaching out to that broken part of me. Check out my latest song called Strange Feeling
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| fairy beth said 1657 days ago (May 13th, 2005) | |
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Purtty Yeah what Mysti said... This is a delicate, very beautiful tune. You can sense the emotion. Well done. Check out my latest song called Message No.1 - David Gwynne
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| alley-oop said 1656 days ago (May 13th, 2005) | |
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Your sound You certainly have a style that mines the emotions of the listener, Tom. A wonderful sound that is unique to you. I always enjoy your music. Check out my latest song called anymore
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| said 1654 days ago (May 15th, 2005) | |
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QUIETLY INTENSE Great song a I really felt the despair so I went outside and killed a fly! Thanks for the emotional piece! Too bad for the fly though? |
| thetiler said 1652 days ago (May 18th, 2005) | |
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Enjoyed this piece Like the ambience of it. Nicely done. Thanks for sharing. Check out my latest song called The Bluebird Cafe (with two other guest)
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| I. Spike said 1652 days ago (May 18th, 2005) | |
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Delicously dark.. I looooove these changes... Dark, melancholy, shadowed... and just when you think everything is going to be all right a dissonant chord pops up and says, "Sorry I'm still broken..." Loved weird sounds towards the end... accordion...? Check out my latest song called Mighty Cracker Fly
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| Anonymous said 1652 days ago (May 18th, 2005) | |
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plaintive very excellent use of intervals and space between them ... i understand this plaintive mood completely ... i identify strongly with it in my life ... very nice! ... flutes are not bad ... just need more legato ... less accented to match smoothness of piano ... perhaps weave them into song earlier in subtle background ... so it's not too much shock when they appear later ... |
| The Leonids said 1430 days ago (December 26th, 2005) | |
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Broken, but beautiful A melancholy hope. Beautiful, broken. Check out my latest song called Remember When
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Peter Greenstone
I am a big fan of the original and I do like this version.
While I like the expansion you did here I kind of miss the
sound of the live piano. The midi piano sounds maybe
too perfect, as I imagine a more run-down piano
characterised by the melody. You play this very nicely and
it s still a moving piece but I prefered the natural sound of
the real piano and the space it was in even though maybe
the recording could have been cleaner.
I like the idea of introducing the woodwinds playing a
theme familiar from your last couple of pieces. It ties
them together nicely. I think it may be better to start
them off in the background and slowly bring them
forward. Right now they seem to be introduced too much
up front and seem a little distracting at first.