Dance of Love-A Waltz

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2015/02/01 17:12:26 (permalink)

Dance of Love-A Waltz

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Ok after many weeks of working on this composition...and yes it is still not perfect, I have finished. It's a waltz for all of you over 10, in 3/4. It's in F#Dorian but the introduction is actually F# in the Egyptian scale...smoke on that! And there is some whacky chord work going on F#9 SUS 4 for one or B9 SUS 4
 
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    Re: Dance of Love-A Waltz 2015/02/01 19:06:30 (permalink)
    Very nice, exotic sounding tune. It was a bit complex for me though.

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    Re: Dance of Love-A Waltz 2015/02/02 01:11:10 (permalink)
    kakku
    Very nice, exotic sounding tune. It was a bit complex for me though.



    Thanks, at least this one can be counted-1-2-3...according to the conservatorium of crap-Adelaide, its crap and not that complicated.
     
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    Re: Dance of Love-A Waltz 2015/02/02 11:07:50 (permalink)
    I don't think it's crap it is just that you have not done much waltzes so it cannot be stellar yet. Next ones will be better. Keep it up!

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    Re: Dance of Love-A Waltz 2015/02/02 11:33:13 (permalink)
    Interesting piece Ben. Pleasantly Oriental sounding, and some nice ideas going on with counter melody. I would defy anyone to waltz to it though.

     
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    Re: Dance of Love-A Waltz 2015/02/02 12:15:01 (permalink)
    i kept waiting for something to happen....
     
    sounds more far east than egyptian
     
    this sounds like a working writing session,
    not a finished demo or final product,
    not sure what you are looking for here......

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    Re: Dance of Love-A Waltz 2015/02/02 12:56:50 (permalink)
    I like the exotic sound of this, which is the strength of this piece.  However, it is not a waltz, nor is it 3/4 time.  This has potential, but is not quite actualized just yet.  I would encourage you to rethink this or move on.  You're certainly not lacking for inspiration.

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    Re: Dance of Love-A Waltz 2015/02/02 17:24:39 (permalink)
    Thanks guys...sorry just a bit grumpy these days.  Batsbrew...looking for nothing.  Yep time to move on, hence it's finished but not perfect.
     
    Lynn are you sure you can count.  I've set the time signature to 3/4...so either i'm on some whacky drugs...and I am for ADHD or you can't count.  I think what is fooling you is, the off kilter stuff.  There is a lot of off accent stuff going on, lots of whacky 32nd notes and triplets.  It's because I played a lot of this in with the yourock guitar.  But of course I may be wrong.
     
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    Re: Dance of Love-A Waltz 2015/02/02 18:22:22 (permalink)
    Hey Ben, you quirky dude!  you certainly come up with some very unique stuff!

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    Re: Dance of Love-A Waltz 2015/02/02 20:03:58 (permalink)
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    Hey Ben, you quirky dude!  you certainly come up with some very unique stuff!


    Thanks Beagle, I'm learning what it is I do is go into a flow state, from here it is easy to combine all my years of work into new and quirky ideas.  I wish there was more time...one lifetime is not enough to become truly great and transcend into something new.
     
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    Re: Dance of Love-A Waltz 2015/02/03 12:56:12 (permalink)
    Ben,  point taken.  I was counting it as 6/8, close but no cigar.  Yet, it doesn't have the feel of a waltz, but the more I hear it, the more I like it.

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    Re: Dance of Love-A Waltz 2015/02/03 18:58:38 (permalink)
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    Ben,  point taken.  I was counting it as 6/8, close but no cigar.  Yet, it doesn't have the feel of a waltz, but the more I hear it, the more I like it.


    Hey Lynn, ah your probably right...because I'm autodidactic, I taught myself music theory and because of my ADHD/Asperger's I just don't register other possibilities.  On saying that 3/4 is 6/8 relatively speaking...mea culpa though.
     
    The waltz thing, yea I'm thinking you can dance to it and because it's in simple triple or compound duple time lol and everything in these meter's is a waltz to me...again not seeing the dust in the wind-because technically it's not.  I might even be wrong about the dance thing...I think you can dance in 5/4...so maybe I should shut my mouth and become a mute. 
     
    If the conservatorium of crap-Adelaide Uni would sit down with me and give me one on one tuition I would go a lot further faster.  It's very hard for me, because I have really advanced knowledge and no knowledge, I'm like a blender of music theory.  To go back to the start would and did drive me mad, I tried to go back to the start in 2012, but the pace was agonisingly slow.  I could pick things up really quickly and remember things from only one sitting but some things like rhythm writing and figured bass did my head in. 
     
    There seemed to be no consensus on we could learn all of this stuff quicker if we used music score writing software too.  Once you have learnt how to do it on the computer, then you go back and learn to write it by hand...just in case the world goes dead over night...don't wont to lose hundreds of years of music theory advances because no one can write it by hand. 
     
    And then don't get me started on the aural training, for Christ sake liturgical music in non secular universities is evil (sorry to the Christians).  When I suggested Queen would be a perfect place to learn harmony singing, I was laughed at.  There is still this arrogance within conservatoriums which suggests classical's superiority, even Jazz is thought of as a poor cousin.  With music being seemingly devalued everyday, which has knock on effects i.e. advances in music technology-honestly "popular" music has driven music technology since well at least Bach.  Without money...nobody will make music, or buy the music technology. 
     
    This is what the hi-brow Adelaide conservatorium bigwigs don't get, by separating the schools into a class system, we are losing the best musical minds to a continuation of a "dead" art-I say this loosely because it would not take much to resurrect it.  The technology is beyond anyone's wildest imagination-it's not perfect but it's Beethoven's dream-this music world.  Everyday I learn something new, a new possibility greets me, hybrid notions play in front of me.  Mastering the technology and improving my theory is the only thing holding me back-I've mastered the guitar now, which because I don't have a proper set-up or place to record I can't show-I was doing 4 hours a day a few weeks ago scales and I am proficient in most of the major and minor scales on the guitar, I know the blues modes and again mostly proficient across the different key's, harmonic minor, yep, and the Phrygian too, the rest I know by ear...oh I forgot pentatonics and I'm totally proficient on these . 
     
    Heck using the orchestral software has improved my ear beyond my wildest dreams...I can hit all the notes vocally...I've ironed out my technique, I always could hit the baritone, to the countertenor range...I.e. Freddie's range but because I could not hear properly I use to strain trying to get the upper notes...now I know how. 
     
    I should admit though I have had chemical help for my ADHD-I'm the Lance Armstrong of musical academia.
     
    Sorry ranting-sitting around waiting for various universities to respond-fighting Adelaide University for being kunts to me-trying to remain positive and keep working-lots to do, now I've figured some new mixing and mastering techniques time to fix all the previous compositions and their flaws-yes I know I have presented flawed pieces in the past.
     
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    Re: Dance of Love-A Waltz 2015/02/04 12:23:50 (permalink)
    Interesting as always

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    Re: Dance of Love-A Waltz 2015/02/05 05:46:49 (permalink)
    I think you are over-complicating things.   Dorian this and Sus4 that.   Whatever its academic structure may be, its just not an enoyable listening experience.   

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    Re: Dance of Love-A Waltz 2015/02/05 16:27:06 (permalink)
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    I think you are over-complicating things.   Dorian this and Sus4 that.   Whatever its academic structure may be, its just not an enoyable listening experience.   


    Ok, I can take that on the chin...one mans Van Gough is another's Taylor Swift.  It's all art and experiments for me, so I'm not going to please everyone, sometimes no one.
     
    But thanks for listening...ah I've learnt to let go and not be so defensive.
     
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