fcurtiss
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Post by fcurtiss on Dec 7, 2003 6:58:53 GMT
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Post by latmat on Dec 7, 2003 16:25:02 GMT
havent checked out your stuff yet but there is an modify button for your own posts so you could fix your original post. Thus not having to keep adding post after post for your mistakes. Its a beautiful tool for those of us who cant spell like me. ;D
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Post by fcurtiss on Dec 7, 2003 17:06:12 GMT
And I thought that the modify feature got added after I dreamed of it last night. The changes have been made and the unnecessary reposts have been deleted.
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Post by latmat on Dec 7, 2003 19:34:56 GMT
Some Intresting backing tracks there. Some of the songs seem abit low for you guys. Werent quite hitting the low notes there. Thats alright though. So is this you and your wife?? I here a girl there. Pretty cool not to many girls here who use the Ps5.
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Post by mattl on Dec 7, 2003 21:20:38 GMT
i love it! who write original? sounds like it could be dr john or something like that
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Post by fcurtiss on Dec 8, 2003 1:04:29 GMT
A Little Taste was written by Dave Frishberg and Johnny Hodges. I lifted it straight from the World's Greatest Fake Book. (Jazz). I've never heard it performed so I didn't know how to 'interpret' it. The lyrics sounded like fun for my 19 year old daughter to sing on Thanksgiving break from college. She is little, with a husky voice. She likes to sing and enjoys taking pictures of herself. See www.gocurtiss.com/tommie%20show/index.htm. Her vocal range starts at middle c and stops at the next c up. On "hello walls" I wrote some octave substitutions for the low notes. On Killing me softly, I tranposed the 'borrowed" midi file down (!) 6 steps but it was still low, even with her jumping up an octave. Hey, we're not in it for the money. But now, in addition to looking for lyrics I would want my daughter to sing, I've got to find a melody that sticks inside the lower part of the treble clef. On Hello Walls I a figured out how to record the stereo from my piano module. I had to process it with the NO FX FX then pan the tracks hard left and hard right. Obvious, I guess, but it sounded bad without these adjustments. Thanks for listening and commenting.
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Post by Objecks on Dec 8, 2003 3:17:25 GMT
Hey fcurtiss! You and your daughter are obviously having a blast singing together! Do I understand correctly that you're using downloaded midi's plus playing live piano? FYI - I looked up "A Little Taste" by Dave Frishberg on listen.com's Rhapsody (one of the so-called legal replacements for Napster -- the best of them in my opinion). The original was a bit slower than your version. Both sound good, though. Your version is much bouncier. That song is my favorite among the ones you posted. Welcome to the group! I look forward to more of your songs! Charlie
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Post by fcurtiss on Dec 8, 2003 19:54:56 GMT
A Little Taste uses a PS5 canned backing, with the correct chords "dialed" in, and I am playing the piano melody line and some improvised fill.
The only song of the four listed that uses a canned midi file is Killing Me Softly.
Ultimately, my goal is to be able to use the combination of resources that I have to nurture creativity, rather than stifle it. I have been a victim of traditional piano playing training for way too long. That is, I can play what's written but I can't write.
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