Re: [Rosegarden-user] Working with odd timings...

[tim h. <te...@gl...>]

On Tuesday 20 December 2005 06:32, Richard Cooper was like:
> I don't know about this song I've been working on. =A0At first I liked it,
> then I hated it, then I loved it, then I didn't like it, and now I think I
> just want to vomit. =A0I tried to write a happy song, but it just sounds =
so
> depressing I want to shoot myself. =A0Maybe somebody can tell me where I =
went
> wrong:
>
> http://pj.nfshost.com/secret/nonsense/life_via_television.mp3
>
> Honestly, I set out to write a happy song and that's what I end up with.

I don't think you've given yourself a chance to go wrong yet. Creativity is=
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like this, you set out to do one thing and end up with another. The main=20
reason this sounds less than happy is because you're using a lot of minor=20
chords, no bad thing in itself, but also because this is a rather simplisti=
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bare-bones arrangement. If you add some hi-hat patterns and rhythm parts,=20
filling in the offbeats, you may find the mood lifts somewhat. It may also=
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help to find ways of adding a little rubato, or human feel to the timings a=
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velocities. It's a good tune, it just needs filling out a bit. :)
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cheers,

tim hall
http://glastonburymusic.org.uk/tim