Indra’s Net Rehearsal Notes #3 = Working Hard at the Craft of Composition
Posted by: andrew in Rehearsal Notes
Rehearsal Notes, Comments, and Insights from several weeks in August:
- Sunday, August 5, 2007 (post-rehearsal notes)
- Sunday, August 12th, 2007
- Thursday, August 16th, 2007
- Sunday, August 19th, 2007
Sunday, August 5th, 2007 (post rehearsal notes)
–after Daniel left = Andrew came up with chord changes for “21st Century Bach”
–Recorded stuff = harpsichord and organ = cool intro stuff = GOT THE INTRO DOWN
Sunday, August 12th, 2007
–Bach = Well-Tempered Clavichord
“Well-Tempered Clavicle” (song title?)
Andrew played back for Dan what he had done last week
–Musical Story = Andrew and Daniel reviewing their life stories and how that contributes to who we are and the kind of music we are making today
–Effortless Mastery & Kenny Werner = reviewing the concepts, book, and reading excerpts
–Dr. David Hawkins = Consciousness
–Rich Schefren = Having Fun = why it’s important = awesome quote . . .
“Most people choose unhappiness over uncertainty.”
–Alan Watts = “The Wisdom of Insecurity”
–”Forest Rain” = reviewed structure of the song
–Daniel = worked on Classical Guitar while JAC worked on the computer and mixing board with headphones
–Daniel worked on “Forest Rain” and also “SSVW” intro = gave him the chord changes from what he had done before
–Andrew = went through “Rock VW” and pulled out section to insert into “SSVW” = finished structure!
–recorded basic scratch tracks, tempo and time signature changes = recorded rough WAV and mp3 file
–including “rock slide” + “forest” sounds in the Chaos Transition
– including Craig Anderton loops
–emailed the rough mp3 file to Daniel and himself
Thursday, August 16th, 2007
–Andrew’s first lesson at the Blue Note in NYC with Kenny Werner!!
THEN DID NOTHING FOR TWO DAYS BUT “STEP ONE” = touching the piano, breathing and being aware.
Sunday, August 19th, 2007
–Andrew reviewed with Daniel stuff from his lesson with Kenny
–talking about first lesson with Kenny
–playing with Effortless Mastery
ANDREW IS ALREADY TOUCHING THE PIANO DIFFERENTLY
–Our Paths = Andrew & Daniel’s = he used to listen to classical music while working with his friend Pat every day
–Daniel probably knows more classical music than Andrew does, even though Andrew majored in Classical Piano Performance for his Bachelor’s degree at Rhodes College
–Andrew’s Rhodes College Senior Recital CD = listening to stuff
–listened to all of the Bach Toccata and Fugue
–some of the Beethoven sonata
–some of the Chopin
–“Dude, you’re burning!” cried Daniel.
Andrew = worked on “21st Century Bach”
–based on actual Bach and “Phil Collins Pedal Point” changes and robbed-borrowed-lifted from “Toccata and Fugue”
–ALSO going through “Baroque Jazz Prog Rock” and “Dan Jan 2006″ files and listening = writing stuff down
“SSVW” = Andrew computer arranging and Daniel guitar parts
Daniel playing his Gibson Custom Classic = really nice tone; long
Daniel also playing his 12-string = SOUNDING AWESOME
Andrew= working on the “Chaos Transition” section = dropping in samples and loops and trying to get stuff to come out right
–percussion effects from Sony/Sonic Foundry sample and loop CD’s
–also Discrete Drums’ EarthBeat “wooden crate” samples
–after Daniel left = Andrew worked for another 90 minutes = the computer screwed up and lost everything = because it had been on too long and the Windows memory leak thing happened = the files were corrupted = the computer locked up TWICE
–BUT Andrew was on a mission = kept working at the piano and came up with the CHAOS CHORD CHANGES!!!!
Week of Monday, August 20th
–later during that entire week = Andrew = practicing the CHAOS CHORD CHANGES and tempo changes = on the piano with the metronome
–recorded the piano part chord changes into Sonar = rough piano just to have the structure down
–will have strings and woodwinds going in different directions
–recorded horn part coming out of CHAOS
–lose the Rock Slide effects
–other cool stuff in the works
More next time . . .
Thank you.
Dr. Andrew Colyer and “MacGyver” Daniel Aggers
Indra’s Net
“Progressive Classical Music for Progressive Rock Fans ”
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