When is it time to quit development?
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- KVRian
- 805 posts since 21 Jun, 2008
Not asking for a definitive answer here, more an opinion. Even though I've listened to this piece a gazillion times it still fails to get boring yet it's approaching the 5minute mark. So when would YOU stop developing a piece and it's ideas? Or would you just let the piece turn into an hours worth of music?
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- KVRAF
- 26033 posts since 20 Oct, 2007 from gonesville
Hey. Me, I don't like long exercises, unless there's a lot of worthy improvisation, or is so chock full of surprising ideas it just can't be helped. A raga in the hands of a master can be an hour long. (EG: I have a Raga Aberi by L. Shankar with Zakir Hussein and Vikku Vinyarakam, that has to be the 51 minutes it is, but that's a long form, and can't be well-met by anything less.)
6, 7 minutes for me is a long workout as far as a through-composed thing. And I'm pretty self-enamored, as far as it goes.
6, 7 minutes for me is a long workout as far as a through-composed thing. And I'm pretty self-enamored, as far as it goes.