A short composition

[superblonde]

Something I wrote quickly from studying music theory. It starts as minor then goes to relative major briefly and back to minor again.

Played as free software midi piano:

Here is a neat comparison, played in GP7 midi piano (much better) on “november rain” voice :

I'm an intermediate student of Metal Method. I play seitannic heavy metal. All Kale Seitan! ♯ ♮ ♭ ø ° Δ ♩ ♪ ♫ ♬
And on the Seventh Day, Mustaine said: ∇ ⨯ E = - ∂B / ∂t ; and there was Thrash; and it had a ♭3; and it was good.

[superblonde]

Ok now i added guitar and bass. Because thats what metalheads do instead of finishing their chores on a saturday 😀
But I dont really know how to write multiple instruments together really. The guitar plays mostly the 5ths.

GP7 audio

A neat set of videos on composition and orchestration. might it help with writing bass parts? maybe?

Intro to Orchestration Part 1: The Importance of Craft

I'm an intermediate student of Metal Method. I play seitannic heavy metal. All Kale Seitan! ♯ ♮ ♭ ø ° Δ ♩ ♪ ♫ ♬
And on the Seventh Day, Mustaine said: ∇ ⨯ E = - ∂B / ∂t ; and there was Thrash; and it had a ♭3; and it was good.

[rorygfan]

Sounds nice. Now you might overdub guitar parts on it in your Reaper software.

[superblonde]

alternatively i could get studio musicians to play when i think I have something worth recording. I havent looked into that kind of thing but way back a long time ago I believe it was zurlocker that posted his rock opera where he hired an orchestra for a recording and said it wasn’t that much of a crazy thing to do. I would guess I should be able to find guitarists in LA to record something without much hassle..?

I'm an intermediate student of Metal Method. I play seitannic heavy metal. All Kale Seitan! ♯ ♮ ♭ ø ° Δ ♩ ♪ ♫ ♬
And on the Seventh Day, Mustaine said: ∇ ⨯ E = - ∂B / ∂t ; and there was Thrash; and it had a ♭3; and it was good.

[Igglepud]

You, sir, ARE a guitarist.

MY ROCK IS FIERCE!!!

[rorygfan]

superblonde wrote:

alternatively i could get studio musicians to play when i think I have something worth recording. I havent looked into that kind of thing but way back a long time ago I believe it was zurlocker that posted his rock opera where he hired an orchestra for a recording and said it wasn’t that much of a crazy thing to do. I would guess I should be able to find guitarists in LA to record something without much hassle..?

I am sure would be quite a few. Scan youtubers, lots of talent there, or post an ad requesting demo material, or even over the internet you could find someone. Maybe there is a Fiverr for musicians. If you have a vocal melody in mind you can sing it, record it and then have someone create it on guitar.

[superblonde]

I think there is some bug in GP7.5 related to the first note(s) when producing audio (above, i have exported wav). I added a rest as the first measure yet still the first notes sounds sudden and artificial. Its like there is some zero crossing problem or something. I also added the crescendo but that didnt help either, the first chord sounds like it is a chopped sample, not smoothly played. It might be because I have “articulation” on each instrument cranked up but lowering it didnt seem to help much either. Kind of quirky.

I'm an intermediate student of Metal Method. I play seitannic heavy metal. All Kale Seitan! ♯ ♮ ♭ ø ° Δ ♩ ♪ ♫ ♬
And on the Seventh Day, Mustaine said: ∇ ⨯ E = - ∂B / ∂t ; and there was Thrash; and it had a ♭3; and it was good.

[rorygfan]

Did you add say 3 bars of silence or lead in counts or some random notes? Then export it? You could solve it that way and use audacity to cut out that lead in part.

Then I damaged the speakers in my old iMac a couple days ago. Cranking them up. Couldn’t believe it as I am careful. But using VLC’s volume in addition to the OS control I suppose was why it happened. So I could not hear it. I started using headphones instead now and went through my midi files from the 1990’s I collected looking for nice vocal melodies to import into GP6. Great fun. I then proceeded to play them on guitar, transposed them down an octave after cutting them from the piano track, then pasting them into the guitar track (the only way to do this it seems), so the tab would show at open position fingering and more logical than the first import.

[superblonde]

Igglepud wrote:

You, sir, ARE a guitarist.

lol 🤩 thanks – for the vote of confidence.

now, if I buy a pedal like this one, I might play all parts on guitar ! (bass & piano & any others) that’d be sweet.

BOSS SY-1

I pondered recording & editing together short recorded parts played with my low level piano skills and bass skills. It could be done with DAW. And maybe record as a slowdown version and then speed up slightly, use a little bit of quantizing..you know 🤫 Like as a quickie 1-day project.

really though the choice depends on the tradeoff between taking the time to learn a new song (which may or may not be so easy..) and instead using the time to write more (hopefully better) stuff, study classic songs, try to transcribe more (ugh), etc. For now I’m not playing hardly at all and my finger dexterity is showing that.

I'm an intermediate student of Metal Method. I play seitannic heavy metal. All Kale Seitan! ♯ ♮ ♭ ø ° Δ ♩ ♪ ♫ ♬
And on the Seventh Day, Mustaine said: ∇ ⨯ E = - ∂B / ∂t ; and there was Thrash; and it had a ♭3; and it was good.

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