More totally improvised and unpolished stuff (hence the glitches, as explained in this topic)
Rainy Saturday Blues
[7:49, 192 kbps MP3, 11.2 M]
Cheers Matt
Free improvisations on The MACHINE, part 2
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- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 756 posts since 21 Sep, 2006 from Kranj, Slovenia
Every time you use autotune, God kills a kitten.
Please, think of the kittens.
Please, think of the kittens.
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- KVRAF
- 10077 posts since 2 Jan, 2005 from somewhere in the woods
hmm Matt, i have mixed emotions about this improvisation.
First the positive: you're an excellent piano-player (nothing new for you, i suppose
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The problem for me: i don't have problems with glitches but with clichés that aren't ironically broken in a way ; so, i'm sure, a lot of people will exactly like, what i dislike.
1) the 'sax' sounds too 'keyboardish' and much more like a synth-lead than like a saxophone.
2) the piano/strings combi is overused by a lot of people, who play in hotels or people, who make music for TV-productions.
3) the Rachmaninov/Sibelius-fills are overused too. I admit, i can't play most of them, but i don't want to play them anyway too.
So, i'm also biased about the atmosphere: We are all accustomed to certain musical phrases and 'Rainy Saturday Blues' evokes a lot of them, but it would be better to have a real sax playin' and a good synth pad instead of these cheesy strings and less reverb on the piano and less piano-fills ... then i'd like it.
You know, it's just my melloic weirdoo, but i took the time to download and listen and thought 'ok, i tell you, what i think'.
cheers
Chris
First the positive: you're an excellent piano-player (nothing new for you, i suppose
).The problem for me: i don't have problems with glitches but with clichés that aren't ironically broken in a way ; so, i'm sure, a lot of people will exactly like, what i dislike.
1) the 'sax' sounds too 'keyboardish' and much more like a synth-lead than like a saxophone.
2) the piano/strings combi is overused by a lot of people, who play in hotels or people, who make music for TV-productions.
3) the Rachmaninov/Sibelius-fills are overused too. I admit, i can't play most of them, but i don't want to play them anyway too.
So, i'm also biased about the atmosphere: We are all accustomed to certain musical phrases and 'Rainy Saturday Blues' evokes a lot of them, but it would be better to have a real sax playin' and a good synth pad instead of these cheesy strings and less reverb on the piano and less piano-fills ... then i'd like it.
You know, it's just my melloic weirdoo, but i took the time to download and listen and thought 'ok, i tell you, what i think'.
cheers
Chris
"It dreamed itself along"
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- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 756 posts since 21 Sep, 2006 from Kranj, Slovenia
Wow Chris, that you took the time for such in-depth review is really flattering 
Yes, I agree about the cheezy sounds and overused cliches. The current impro setup is a slowly evolving system to help new ideas flow without touching the mouse (as hunting for "that lead sound that I hear in my head so clearly" is the cancer that was killing my productivity for years), so that the good ones can be polished up relatively quickly, and the bad ones end up gathering silicone dust in arhive folders. (to be sold for millions after I'm dead, lol
Not. ) I hope to gradually build up better multi-genre-purposed pad and lead layers, and suggestions such as yours are a useful reminder to spend more work on them.
Thanks a lot, Matt
Yes, I agree about the cheezy sounds and overused cliches. The current impro setup is a slowly evolving system to help new ideas flow without touching the mouse (as hunting for "that lead sound that I hear in my head so clearly" is the cancer that was killing my productivity for years), so that the good ones can be polished up relatively quickly, and the bad ones end up gathering silicone dust in arhive folders. (to be sold for millions after I'm dead, lol
Not. ) I hope to gradually build up better multi-genre-purposed pad and lead layers, and suggestions such as yours are a useful reminder to spend more work on them.Thanks a lot, Matt
Every time you use autotune, God kills a kitten.
Please, think of the kittens.
Please, think of the kittens.
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- KVRAF
- 5530 posts since 5 Aug, 2006 from UK - The Mudway Towns
very pleasant and relaxing. I don't really know blues styles well enough to comment on whether or not some phases are cliched or not.
As the man said, really good piano playing.
As the man said, really good piano playing.
It wasn't me! (well, actually, it probably was) - apparently now an 'elderly' so maybe I forgot!
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- KVRist
- 394 posts since 3 Oct, 2008 from lab
yes the sax...yuck. but the piano is awesome!! reminds me a little bit of the song from Tears for Fears (The Working Hour track)...at least the sax evokes that a bit....until you play the more frantic parts and it is just synth.....stuff.
but the piece is awesome in its flowing beautifulness!...props!
but the piece is awesome in its flowing beautifulness!...props!
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- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 756 posts since 21 Sep, 2006 from Kranj, Slovenia
Thanks a bunch guys!!
Yes, that's the curse of all-round-workstation synths; not a single acoustic patch makes a decent lead on its own
Yes, that's the curse of all-round-workstation synths; not a single acoustic patch makes a decent lead on its own
Every time you use autotune, God kills a kitten.
Please, think of the kittens.
Please, think of the kittens.
