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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWnPeLiqhY4[/youtube]

Recorded straight from my amp.

A remix I did of some mailroom girl at Propellerhead howling. Its not the greatest thing in the world but I suppose I could still manage to get $1,000 of free gear if I luck out and the judges are stoned enough.

http://soundcloud.com/5pryme/olivia-bro ... say-5pryme

That's quite nice. It might be just me, but I might tune the kick and snare to be more harmonic with the rest of the track. The beat minds me of 'big beat' by billy squier, as sampled by Dizzee Rascal and Jay-Z etc.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcQYgrm6Vv0[/youtube]

Lol, truthfully I don't think I could take listening to this tune on loop for another few hours. I actually got this done back on 12/29 but hated it too much to really consider posting it until I heard how a lot of the competition was sounding. Seems like all of the tunes in the contest have one thing in common weighing them down or jamming them up - her voice.

Are you into Robert Fripp? I think that could be good with a bed or something to frame it, some synth pads or something.

Haven't heard of fripp, I'll give him a listen you do much guitar playing?

[edit] oh yeah I heard one of his songs! interesting stuff indeed

Yeah, I thought your piece sounded a bit Frippy... I like his work with Brian Eno. Think he was in King Crimson? They were good too.

I hardly touch my guitar anymore, sadly(?)

start playing again! >:o

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1ViQpjytbk[/youtube]

here's something I just finished

that was completely brilliant as far as i am able to think.
you should branch into multiplex melodies. i assure you your talent would be snapped up by the studio i play sometimes for.

I lack the confidence to actually play as a profession or in front of groups maybe someday.

Fripp was indeed in King Crimson.


I envy you Dan. I have tried to pick up guitar many times in the past several years, and I can't for the life of me make one do anything but shriek and wail in a manner that makes me think of a pregnant water buffalo.

Two of the first songs I've ever written, yes, once I wrote songs for the guitar^^
I hope my English accent doesn't destroy everything, I actually have no clue how my English sounds to a native speaker, probably awful xD

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzFw4bO0Rfk[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SJWZlSptJU[/youtube]

I think my voice has a bit improved in the course of the last year, it's very hard to rate it objectively myself.

you are a very gifted person. you have restraint and you only play what you know should be played.
i play all the notes that i think of, and many of them are harsh and should be deleted.
i do not have the discernment that you have.

here is an example of my tendency to play every note that i can think of without thinking about the restriction of superfluous notes. it is saturated and over stated


..,removed due to mediocrity.
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Thank you!
In earlier times, when I was heavily psychotic I did have many times when I couldn't create melodies too. It's indeed the most creative process of music to create a melody, since it's nothing but intuition if you don't only play arpeggios or scales up and down. everything else in music can be learned but melodies must happen. There's even only a slightly difference between a melody in a classical composition and pop songs. But you know, there is a great difference in creating a melody if you sing it all intuitively or have a keyboard in front of you and know the scales, with a keyboard you often tend to forget about the intuition and just think of the learned things anymore. So you might find it easier to create a melody if you play some chords playback and sing to it. You might not have the scales imprinted in your brain in relation to your voice.

Really, it's the same for me, it's often nothing but the way you do it that changes everything. You might not even be unblessed, you probably only use the wrong ways. To find back to intuition you firstly have to ignore what you have learnt! I once was where you are now but have found back to it!

Would you STOP THAT?!??!?

lol

Dang, dude, mediocrity whether real or perceived never stopped me from posting in here. If nothing else, post because most likely there has at some point been something in here worse than what you'd post.

Though to be fair, I have to admit the stuff I've gotten done over the last couple of months is truly awful. The best I've done so far was singing "Forever Reign" (One Sonic Society) with my church choir and band. Talk about a reality check... But it also had the effect of motivating some of the volunteer musicians I work with to step up. Epic fail for me. Big win for the other people who actually matter.

At the moment I'm writing a hymn arrangement for handbells using "traveling 4-in-hand" technique. The handbell parts are pretty much finished, but I can't convince my partner to really give my choreography a chance. The idea behind traveling is that you can hold on to your primary bells (primaries use a conventional technique) while dropping your secondaries and picking up new secondaries. This technique avoids the more conventional/easier but more restricting technique of interlocking bells and allows us to play 4-part harmony for a more bell ensemble sound rather than the simple 2-part effect we normally go for. The way I feel about writing choreography for traveling is it's like working backwards, and actual performance has a sort of feel like a rope unraveling. Conventional playing feels more like "weaving." The good news for me is that I'm learning to write parts that are actually playable. Perhaps I'll make a video of just what I have and post that in the next week or two...

Aren't the handbells far to complicated to play for the benefit they bring?^^
Though, of course I know, that was a stupid question, it's rather about the show, the impression than the musical aspect why you chose the handbells and not just a glockenspiel^^ and it's indeed impressive! I'm looking forward to it!