After writing the first extensive entry today, this is a progress/method report
A couple of well spent hours, taking the raw ideas and doing the first bit of construction. Typical for me: tweak several sections of the repeating bass line so that it has some feel, some rational variation. Same thing with the melody on the ER1, things like transposing, changing the lenght. Chop all these up into 4 bar phrases, change the order around so that its not static. Came up with a nice beginning, another variant on the melody.
Listening to the trumpet again, quite a bit of it is ususable. Maybe not inspired, but it works with the piece. Sort of a gentle swaying....
Next step is to work on some sort of arrangement other than just the endless flow. I know there needs to be some sort of break or variation so that the listener is not lulled to sleep and/or bored.
One this is certain, the drum tracks will be exploded, so that I can more easily mess with the individual parts. As always, the space between the notes is as important as the notes themselves............
This entire blog is very well done Dana! Keep up the good work... I look forward to hearing more of your insight. :)
Posted by: Jay on June 6, 2004 06:28 AM