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here is something i wrote and only played once (during this recording), and i was tired, but nevertheless i think the skeleton of what i played could be very well iterated orchestrally.

i am not a good enough pianist to iterate what i imagine, but i at least can trace it out.

http://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=11193398

This is really cute B9. It's different from alot of the other songs you have composed but I like it. It makes me think of early 20th Century music in some parts. I couldn't tell you were tired, maybe because it's a happy song. I imagine it could be very well iterated orchestrally and I'm looking forward to hearing your future versions of it. I believe you're a great pianist. And I love it when you post your music because I really enjoy what you write and how you play, arrange and mix it. It's kinda like getting a surprise present. Thank you for posting and sharing it.

Yeah, but why wait? That's the point I wanted to make. My composition mentor admitted his keyboard skills were minimal, so his approach to composition was point-and-click. He used Finale as a sequencer, and for what he did that worked great and generated instant notation. But it's not a very "dynamic" way to create music unless all you want to do is produce drum loops. He was the first guy to expose me to Synclavier compositions, but unfortunately the Synclavier at that music school was non-functional by the time I got there. But it was enough to spark my interest. His Synclavier programming worked the same way by typing in notes, but the Synclav was a lot more flexible as a music player than the most current notation software is now. Which is why I LOVE owning one. But I was doing the same thing back in the 90s with PowerTracks Pro 3.0. My first sequencer back in high school was a Yamaha QY10, and even though you COULD use MIDI controllers with it you still couldn't store many notes on it. Computer sequencing opened up an entire musical universe to me back then when I started college (in 1996).

Go one measure at a time if you need to. Your left-hand technique is actually not bad, btw. Get some copies of Haydn and Mozart keyboard sonatas just for study and you'll realize you're on the right track. You'll sound more "progressive" if you open up your left hand, though. For example, voice root-position chords in the left hand as root-5th-octave. A good alternative would be putting the 3rd in the bass and voice it 3rd-root-octave. When I teach more advanced piano students, I tell them that their left hand technique should be as brainless as possible, which means memorize as many different accompanying patterns as you can so when you see it you get instant recall with your left hand instead of just playing note-to-note. That way you can focus more on melody in your right hand. A good way to fake right hand counterpoint is to play a fauxbourdon underneath the melody, i.e. parallel 6ths. If you keep your left hand spread, you'll avoid "improper" dissonances by naturally resolving everything as non-chord tones. It's a cheap trick, but it's been around since before Mozart. The easiest way to harmonize in the right hand is to just throw in a chord-tone in with the melody. Aside from your piano technique, which I understand you're still working on, I'd just say be more adventurous with your melody and follow my advice on right-hand harmonization. And you'll be fine.

As for music licensing, here's a tip: One of my favorite primetime soaps until recently has been Grey's Anatomy. They always license KILLER music for their soundtracks. I dunno if they've ever released any soundtrack albums, but you should check it out to see if they have or just start watching reruns of the show along with current episodes. The demos they pick are always so quirky, which has to do probably with the ironic storylines and characters of the show. In my opinion, that's the future of postmodern "classical" music, not just commercial music. These guys are always looking for indie composers and bands for the shows.

thank you for your reply. i removed the song because it was exceptionally raw and unpolished (a fact that i did not notice until the cold light of today when i re-listened to it and i winced)..
there are many mistakes of both pitch and rhythm in the song i posted, and so i will repost it in it's correct form if ever i get around to developing it.

I understand B9 but that was still impressive for only being played once.

5PRYME - Denouement
http://soundcloud.com/5pryme/5pryme-denouement

A minimal roller I put together over the last week or so.

That's cool Techstepgenr8tion. But what do you mean by a minimal roller? I'm new to this type of music that some of you are composing and recording but I'm curious about it.

That's a good question. I can answer you easily on the minimal part - there's barely anything there. Truthfully this one's a bit sparse even for my own standards, I haven't been doing a lot lately though and have wanted to at least get a few things out on the table this year even if they feel like a bit of a step backward. If I'm eating most of my work and not sharing I feel like I'm missing half the fun.

As for what 'rolling' means in terms of jungle/dnb, that's actually a tough one. I've heard it attached to most of the stuff I always liked; its not a genre, its an attribute to the sound but its tough to nail down, there's no definition I could find and its kind of one of those 'you know it when you hear it' kind of things.

A few examples of what people'd classically consider 'rolling' dnb:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHVPLtPObWw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymsj2VWFds4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbYjn4IXnSM

If its still clear as mud don't worry, it is to a lot of people and even after 14 year of listening to this genre I'm still not entirely sure where the lines are on 'rolling'.

Thank You. I have a far better understand of it now.

It sounds more like art than dance music, was what I was thinking. More for art galleries, cafes, and drinking lattes rather than disco balls, lasers, and red bull+vodka.

I like it, though I agree with tech's own assessment that it might be a little TOO minimal. But my philosophy as a composer is that its better to PRODUCE, even if the music really is bad, and stay in practice than to not do anything at all. That's kinda where I am musically right now--composing for its own sake.

It seems like new gear will bring all kinds of headaches as well. Wonderously flat reference monitors mean that I try to make music sound the way I want to and end up horribly overfilling the lower mids, by my own auditory biases, and that same tune in my car absolutely unravels. I still need to learn how to make music not the way I want to hear it but the way the stuff I'd want to hear *should* sound on those monitors. Also I had a big problem with output from Ableton chomping, garbling, and biting for a long time and it took me several failed projects to learn that I can't mix imported sample rates within a project or that working in 48Khz yields something that'll blow up in artifacts on Soundcloud (that's pretty much where my year went and why I fell silent from last fall forward). Stuff like that's damn near enough to make you want to just hang it all up and retire sometimes.

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Elliot.

I don't know if this has been posted already, apologies if it has.

I just came across this.
Aspergers/Autistic Singer Regina Lucchese - http://www.youtube.com/user/reginalukz

Youtube - http://www.youtube.com/user/ElliotRocker

Myspace - www.myspace.com/garagefolk (corrected after seeing the below post)

To people who don't know about Rock music, 'garage folk' would sound like 'folks who live in the garage'

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Search MySpace account as /garagefolk.

Quality of songs is better on my Youtube Channel


Cheers

I didn't feel like playing the piano for two weeks but when my passion came back again some days ago wrote a new piece that's matching exactly to my emotional situation. and somehow I started playing by feeling, I didn't only let the harmonies and melodies affect myself but also my situation, independent from the time I was writing the piece, by altering in speed, strength and so on intuitively. I found that I love this way of playing, I feel more complete now
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D28E5J_Kdyc[/youtube]

This piece was written a month ago or even more, since I don't take lessons I write my own practising pieces which always include something that's new to me, I call them experiments, as I did for the guitar. Since it was only my fifth piece it included many new aspects of playing the piano for me.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoRlcEV2rPU[/youtube]