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Dan South

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  • Birthday 11/30/1999

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  1. Lamborghini cruising NYC to a U2 soundtrack:
  2. Wow! This thread's almost five years old! And some of the rascals who contributed are STILL HERE! KEWL!!
  3. Thinking back on it, there were some women who said some pretty amazing things to me, but they did it in the language of glances and dance moves. The most outrageous things that I ever heard on stage came out of the mouths of my bandmates. Those are stories for another thread.
  4. Whoa! Your left hand looks like a spider up there! You play bass like John Entwistle! --- Me: Who's that brunette that you came in with? Blonde girl: Oh, she has a boyfriend. Sorry! Me: Okay. (Two minutes later) Blonde girl (runs up to the stage): She wants to go out with you! Me: Okay. --- There was this senile old guy who would always hang out at this one bar on Friday nights - somebody seemed to know that his name was George. He couldn't really speak (it was just mumbled gibberish) but he was really enthusiastic and always had a big smile on his face. He'd come up to me, stand right beside me and say in a loud, beer-breath voice: Muwuwururuwuwurumuruwururuwuruh! And then he'd say: G chord! G chord! Sometimes he'd reach out and grab the neck of my bass between songs and make this loud, hideous noise. After a while, I figured out that George was asking us to play a song that he liked, but we could never understand what he was saying well enough to guess the title. No matter what we'd play next, he'd get all excited, beam ear to ear, and play air guitar along with the band. Those were the good old days!
  5. December 7th, a thread that will live in infamy!
  6. I don't think I'd go as far to call it TAB. Just a chord sheet with the rhythms marked.
  7. I was never real keen on his original idea. It sounds like a bad Kevin Costner movie.
  8. Help! I have a recital in two days! I need keyboard tab for the Well-tempered Clavier, Rachmaninoff's piano concertos, Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2, and the complete works of Frederic Chopin. Must be 100% accurate and easy to read (and play). Thanks!
  9. There's no such thing as "keyboard tab." It's called sheet music (i.e. notes on a staff written in standard musical notation) and you can't learn to read it in two days. For future reference, contact The Colony music store in Manhattan (49th and Broadway) for sheet music. If they don't have it, they can probably order it. If I were you, I'd shut off the computer, turn on your keyboard, and play along with the CD until you work out the parts. It may take you all night, so don't delay.
  10. Vlad, I'm flattered that you would want my opinion. Intersections is an amazing composition. I liked the way that it moves from section to section smoothly and the counterpoint between the bass and violins in some sections. The rhythmic pizzicatto section has an Asian feel to it; very interesting. Compositionally this is WAY more involved and complex than anything that I've written, so I can't offer any more than a big thumbs up, there. I have a couple of small suggestions. You said that you plan to have this played with real string players. If so, these comments really have no merit. But if you'd like to make your synth version sound just a little more realistic, these ideas may help. Comment 1: The only sound that I found distracting was the solo viola. A nicer sample would help. All of the other instruments and sections sounded fine in terms of timbre. Comment 2: In the very beginning, the chords could be made to lead more smoothly from one to the other. This may be a result of the attack characteristics of the string program that you used. You may have to vary that in real time. A simpler solution might be to edit the velocity values of each note and perhaps stretch the lengths of the individual notes out so that they don't all end together. It sounds a bit too much like someone played those chords on a keyboard. Use dynamics, too. Make one chord softer or louder than the previous one to add a bit of "human factor." Interestingly, the chords at the end of the piece don't exhibit this problem. They sound very natural and smoothly played. Excellent piece! When you have it played by the live players, please share a copy with us. I'll be looking forward to it!!!
  11. Thanks, Vlad. Just me and my trusty Ti G4. I have to do SOMETHING to pass the time on my morning commute.
  12. Anybody have a chance to listen to this yet? I'd like comments on the mix if you can spare five minutes. Thanks in advance!!!
  13. Why don't you just put some MP3's on artistlaunch, broadjam, javamusic, or one of the other free sites? My email is limited to file sizes of a meg or smaller. A typical MP3 song is three to five megs.
  14. I just posted a new piece that may be of interest to synth fans. Fugue in D (Moog Fugue) As always, your comments and suggestions would be sincerely appreciated. Thanks, Dan www.mp3.com/DanSouth
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