Nicolas
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Posts: 208
Joined: Sep. 2005 |
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Posted: June 24 2007, 17:54 |
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Thanks for the kind words (and myspace request  )!
When I judge my own music -and I guess you can conclude that for yourself when listening to it-, I'm a melody man. I can come up with nice melodies, but have far more problems in the arrangement in the broadest sence (instruments, variations, bridges, countermelodies etc) and the mixing. As for the mixing issues, I'm learning those and regularly ask experienced people which helps a lot. I've just had a load of good hints, so I hope that the technical mixing aspect will improve in the future. It's not that I want every mix to sound ultrapolished and clean, in contrary, but too often have I been unable to add an idea because I couldn't get it into the mix (no more room between the instruments, no more dynamic headroom, etcetc). I hope to have solved many of those issues now, so I'm less restricted in the future. I must add that the things I've put on myspace sound quite the way I wanted them to sound though.
As for improving my arranging qualities, I feel they improve with experience. I learn to play better, find new chords, tricks, etc. I plan on maybe taking music lessons somewhere in the future (I've never had lessons) and hope these will give me a background that allows me to improve my arrangements, and mainly the variations/bridge aspect of it. And of course to improve my playing. I'm flattered you say it's nicely played. That's only because it took me two hundred takes  . I'd like to learn to play better, if only to improve my efficiency. And because at the moment, I fail to play even simple two handed tunes such as REM's nightswimming. My current limit is at right hand (RH) melody and some non-arpeggiated LH chords on very logical places in the RH melody. As Nightswimming needs some movement of the LH while playing the RH melody, I can't do it. The asynchronous thing in my brain really needs to be professionally trained if I ever want to use it properly...and if I have "it" in the first place of course.
Regarding the "no title" song: It's called "no title" because I'm still looking for a good title . I consider the tune finished though. At first, I planned a longer piece with the theme repeated and a build-up, but as I was creating it, I felt this worked just like this. I don't know if you're familiar with "broadsword and the beast" by Jethro Tull, but anyway the album ends with the short song Cheerio. It's a nice song because when it ends, you want some more of it. Which is a nice feeling to end a song ànd an album with . I feel that the strength of "no title" is a bit the same: it's a nice tune which you get to hear just once, and then it stops and you wish it had continued for a bit longer (I just realize I have this feeling continuously in Amarok and that's why I love the album so much). Quite possibly, if it HAD continued for a bit longer, you wouldn't have been as happy as you now hoped for it. (I know that there's an open opportunity for you guys to make fun of me in that statement ). That's why I left it like it was, and if I ever make an album it will be the last tune on it.
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