Dirty Tuba
Culture not included
there is a new epervesance in our music since the tour. we haven't practiced much since the tour so I am not certain of my new found firer friend of influnence, but I do believe we have been touched by it... it being: influence.
Funny thing is we have been listening and listening to music from far and wide. well, I know for a fact a major portion of the band listens to music that is from countries other than the US. I especially have been listening to a lot of Romanian bands and wanting it to influence the way I play and write... but to no avail....
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Posted by dirtytuba at 04:31 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Odd meters
Its funny how I had set out on a mission to write a piece in 13, and after telling a few people that I was doing that, we all (including me!) began to run around beating our chests while counting to 13 (try it 1,2,3-1,2,3-1,2,3-1,2-1,2). but then after we started practicing the piece over and over and getting it up to speed, we have found that its better to think of it as a lopsided 5 (1-2-3-4,5). These last couple of days I have been running around thinking about "Shit Stall" (thats the working title) that lopsided 5 makes more and more sense.
I'd also like to say that after years of writing video game music and music for kids toys, it is refreshing to write in odd meters and odd keys. Granted there are some limitations that you have to deal with when writing for 12 Brass Players and a gaggle full of percussion (although, I don't write specifics for the drums), and there are some spots that I would have concidered difficult only to be fucking suprised that it could be that easy. Sometimes a complex harmony will trip a lot of people up, or a passage of up beats, but for the most part if I concentrate on POWER, and oddities the music seems to take off... like light a gas fire place.
Posted by gropo at 08:47 PM | Comments (0)
Quick Sand... I mean, Quick Set Up
So now I have gotten into the never ending phase of change the settings on this application. I like the customizing allowances but jeesh, give a few lines of code I'll make a friging telephone book out of it.
Posted by gropo at 10:24 PM
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