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Cygnus64

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  1. That song is the 2012-2013 gospel equivalent of what Adele's "Someone Like You" was to 2011-2012 pop...meaning I've heard it waaayyy more times than I'd listen to any one song by choice! Don't get me wrong. That's not a criticism. Quite the opposite. It's a modern classic But as a--hack of a--church musician, I've heard enough singers cover this song (and seen enough praise dancers interpret it...) in my travels to last a lifetime Interesting. I've never heard it before as I don't really follow Gospel except for this project, so I don't know which ones are the "hits" or not. Here's another one, I'm assuming it's very popular as I see a ton of versions on Youtube: [video:youtube]
  2. Listening to a lot of Gospel tracks, since I'm working on my annual Gospel/Symphony orchestrations. Kirk Franklin is quite an amazing musician and writer, this one is going to sound great with a full symphony: [video:youtube]
  3. A track from the upcoming Christmas album, my friend is playing lead violin, I'm playing harmony and keys. In Dulci Jubilo
  4. Suit and Tie guy- excellent stuff. Steve Coscia- well done. Lots of great ideas in that. Terrific. Morizzle- hilarious and expertly done. To pull the humor off, one has to nail the arrangement and you did. A tune from me= Silent Night. Silent Nightmusic
  5. Bach was basically forgotten for 100 years, his sons were better known. It wasn't til the mid- 1800s that there was a revival, largely due to Mendelssohn and Schumann. The violin sonatas (among the masterpieces of classical music) were found in a fish shop. Someone was wrapping fish with Bach manuscripts (probably copies). This happens quite a bit with classical. The dreaded "Pachelbel Canon" was unknown until the 1970s when it was used in the movie "Ordinary People". Damn you Robert Redford! Even in the 30 years I've been a pro, some composers have definitely gone in and out of favor: Sibelius is now a 3 hit wonder. Liszt is disappearing, Debussy too. Mahler has gone from obscure to overplayed. American classical music has come down to 3 people: Copland, Barber and Bernstein.(and Gershwin of course). All the other great classical American composers like Howard Hanson have basically become Jeopardy! questions.
  6. Bach, eh? Let's take a minute and listen to one of the Maestros: [video:youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9ZVuV8Py24
  7. Thanks for listening guys. My hope is to swap out some of the parts for real players in a few months, assuming I'm to win some sort of Powerball Lotto or get a whole lotta gigs.
  8. New track from the upcoming Christmas CD: Angels Prelude
  9. I had an African-American woman come up to me and start yelling that I am a racist because there are no black people in the symphony. Keep in mind that 1. I'm not leading the orchestra 2. Auditions are almost always held behind screens.
  10. Thanks Linwood. You're version of Estate absolutely kills. Great performance by the singer, great arranging on your part. I have a couple of charts coming up in this style, I'll be hitting you up for advice. I wish I had more of a theory background for the jazzier tunes, it's difficult for me.
  11. I just did my morning constitutional. Since I've been walking these past 4 months, I realized that something was missing in my life: being outdoors. I've never been an outdoorsy type, I was a city slicker. As I get older, I realize that it's good for the brain to get away from concrete and cars. Here's where I spend every morning these days: Sunny Lake
  12. Cool thread. I walk, it's like running except you walk. We have a park near with a 2 mile trail around the lake, I do it every morning. At nite I do another mile or 2 around my apt complex and I occasionally hit the treadmill. I've been dieting and have lost 48 pounds in since June 1.
  13. Aaah. Very nice, both tracks. I like the way the stereo lead synth comes in during the middle of the first piece. Well done.
  14. That depends on the bass players. If it was one solo bassist it would probably work better than a section. Divisi is a tricky thing. In general, cellos don't do a lot of it, and when they do it's usually in octaves playing the same line. If you need more parts, one thing you could consider is adding a violin 3 part. We played "Sophisticated Lady" by Ellington arranged by Morton Gould last week with the orchestra, and it had 3 fiddle parts. Your piece actually reminds me of it (it was for strings only), he has a lot going on and that violin 3 part gave him another line to work with. If you added a violin 3, you could give the bulk of the viola part to it, and free up the middle voices to move things around. Almost no classical music has a violin 3, but most "charts" from the Gershwin/Ellington/Porter genres have them. Edit- one more thing is that measure 29 in the violas has a mistake. I think you want an 8th on the second half of beat three. They're viola players, they frighten easily.
  15. bluzeyone, where's the link to your tune? Linwood: nice as usual, very enjoyable. A suggestion: you have everything kinda scrunched together. You could take the first fiddles up an octave, take the seconds up at spots etc. The seconds and violas have too much in the same range. If you take a majority of the first fiddle line up an octave, you'll have a lot of room to give every line some room without tripping over the other lines. I would also suggest re-thinking the double cello part. In real life, that's going to get very muddy. Since you'll have room if you take the fiddles up, you could transfer one of the cello parts to the violas and divide them instead. A different timbre on one part will make things less muddy down there. In general, you keep everything pretty close to the staff area. You don't have to. There's another two octaves to work with for the fiddle parts.
  16. Actually, it has been my experience that, more often than not, folks in these type of situations initially tend to self-medicate the underlying depression (or other mental health disorder) with drugs.....not to say that it doesn't happen the other way around. Right. That's why I said substance abuse-fueled. It's like adding jet fuel to a car. I don't doubt that he had some serious problems, he surely did. He assumedly brought them out even further with the booze and drugs.
  17. My guess is that there were really two parts: The tortured artist schtick and the actual, substance abuse-fueled depression. An entertainer can give the public any game face they wish. A good example are comedians, many of them have an underlying angst, but we don't know it. The outside tortured artist schtick can be just schtick, even for a person suffering from depression or drug abuse.
  18. Christmas Hoedown, feature our very own KC Clappers!!
  19. This is from my upcoming Christmas CD, the track isnt quite done and am looking for any suggestions. It's a concept album of Christmas all o'er the world. This is one I wrote, so far I'm calling it "A Russian Midwinter". Clonkety-Clonk.
  20. Nice stuff, Bobadohshe! I like both of them. If I might make a small suggestion on the first one: I would suggest backing the snare off a bit, it's really sticking out on my monitors. You have a lot of interesting stuff in the background. Personally I would like to hear more of it, but I am guessing that your client does not. Very well done.
  21. Very nice stuff, Ken. I like the country one a lot better, she indeed has a great voice and the production is crystal clear. As I get older I like country more, I think partly because so much of it has excellent production values and your's does too. I like the other track too, but it doesn't seem right for the guy's voice. Then again I listened to Kalli's first and that's a tough act to follow. I'm guessing that her's was recorded better with higher quality stuff. He sings fine, it's just a little dull sonically compared to hers. I take it he's using the fancypants 4K V-Studio and not the $600 one? What is he doing with it besides mixing, is he using the built-in pres or a boutique pre? Sounds like the latter. Very impressive stuff, made for a great listen. BTW, thanks for checking out my track above, I appreciate it.
  22. My orchestration of a piece by Vaughn Williams. Rhosymedre
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