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Tried some orchestral stuff


ShergoldSnickers
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The question is....

Is it worth persevering with? It's sort of Stravinsky meets Start Trek in retrospect. Completely unintentional.

This was supposed to be a quick dabble using the orchestral sounds that are available for GarageBand. These few unfinished bars took hours to do, some of it on a new midi guitar setup. I have no real working understyanding of musical theory, but can sort of get there in the end. This is really hard work though compared with the stuff I normally do, and I feel unable to give any objective comment on it's worth. Over to you guys!

[url="http://homepage.mac.com/ianhalstead/Sites/Basschat/Or_Castrated.mp3"]Click to play file 'Or_Castrated.mp3'[/url]

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[quote name='ShergoldSnickers' post='31619' date='Jul 13 2007, 11:36 PM']The question is....

Is it worth persevering with? Over to you guys!

[url="http://homepage.mac.com/ianhalstead/Sites/Basschat/Or_Castrated.mp3"]Click to play file 'Or_Castrated.mp3'[/url][/quote]

Well at least no-one has said it's total crap. [i]Yet.[/i] :)

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well i liked it, got me thinking it is time to get a key board to hook up to garage band

I guess you are already aware of the Icomp web site but if not check it out at [url="http://www.icompositions.com/"]http://www.icompositions.com/[/url] there may be stuff there to interest you.

cheers
Pete

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[quote name='Peaty' post='32511' date='Jul 16 2007, 02:05 PM']well i liked it, got me thinking it is time to get a key board to hook up to garage band

I guess you are already aware of the Icomp web site but if not check it out at [url="http://www.icompositions.com/"]http://www.icompositions.com/[/url] there may be stuff there to interest you.

cheers
Pete[/quote]

Thanks for the heads up Pete - I wasn't aware. Cheers.

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[quote name='velvetkevorkian' post='35246' date='Jul 21 2007, 02:39 PM']I really like that. The pizz strings and the big swells with gongs sound excellent in particular. Did you play that all in, or was any of it programmed/notated/whatever?[/quote]

It was all played in from a keyboard, with a little bit from a midi equipped guitar. I don't really play the keyboard with any dexterity, so I have to input the chords one by one, but in real time in this case. I couldn't even tell you what the chords are!

I'm not sure if the brass section would survive a full concert, there's a lot of sustained notes in the first bit. But as they are virtual*, I can do with them as I please, and they can't ignore me in the bar after rehearsals. Indeed, such is my power, I could have them play banjos or get them howling like whipped dogs MWWUAHAAAAHAAAAAAAAA!

Strange, but even though they are virtual, after 11.00 in the evening they all sound p*ssed. GarageBand is that realistic.

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THere is some conceptual promise here, Shergold. Its raw as f*** but, if its your first go at something like this, you haev sone remarkably well. Have you seen Samuel Adler's 'Orchestration' book, or Walter Piston's, or Schoenberg's? You should start exploring this stuff.

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If you are getting into Orchestral writing you might wanna check out this
Free on line tutorial site.
Apart from Harmony within sections..it gets into how various instruments work together.
Very useful site.

[url="http://www.northernsounds.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=77...."]http://www.northernsounds.com/forum/forumd...ay.php?f=77....[/url]. :)

Sounds good



Garry

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