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I added a new post today, thanks very much for checking out the blog! The last two posts were slightly off topic, but I'll be back on Debussy in the very near future!

I'm currently in the early stages of posting a series of articles through my music blog on the process of analysis of the Debussy piece 'Arabesque No. 1'. I'm looking very specifically at the in depth functionality of the music through a variety of analytic methods. I thought there might be some people who post here that would be interested in reading this kind of thing! If anyone feels they would be, please follow the link below. http://melodictraditions.wordpress.com/2013/08/08/harmonic-ingenuity-of-debussy-part-2-harmonic-analysis-for-the-thinking-musician/ Thanks, and all the best! Oscar Ps, If anyone is interested in reading anything in a certain direction or from a specific viewpoint on this topic (or even anything somewhat related), please let me know, and I'll post it up as part of the series!

Cheers for the reply and great feedback. I was thinking of adding high string arrangement (or similar timbrel equivalent) to allow myself to experiment with and tailor the upper range of the sonic spectrum over the course of the track as well as introduce and develop melodic statements. What's your opinion on this course of action in relation to the comments you've made? I've also thought about shortening the opening section by one repeat of progression as it was originally intended to be a vocal track before I went in a different direction, and this length was intended to be hold interest for this time with vocals entering also. I may still add vocals at some point. The closest comparison I can give to the direction I'd take with them would be this track, as these would likely be the two vocalists that I'd have sing: http://soundcloud.com/lespechesmusic/crack-in-the-wall.

This is a Jazz and Minimalist influenced piece piece of instrumental electronic music in which I've attempted to utilise subtle and abrupt timbral and textural shifts to maintain interest throughout. Lazy Bee You can also listen to it on SoundCloud here: http://soundcloud.com/lokimusic/lazybee Hope you enjoy, and any comments or feedback are welcome. Oscar.

I play bass guitar/upright bass as my primary instrument. I agree with a lot of these points, however many of them are just the result of having limited resources when it came to recording, the piano player was extremely pushed for time and we only had the chance to do a 1 take all the way through, also my soundcard glitched and he had no drums and just a click + midi melody to record to, I think he did a really good job for the limited resources. The drums are sequenced midi so I tried to pull them back far enough that they wouldn't drive the feel too much themselves, the guitarist was having a bad day and I had to take 8 or so takes and cut them up to get something workable. The singer was ill and only had a few hours to practice the melody and she also played flute, although she's a classically trained flautist and also out of practice so I just wrote out a melody for her and asked her to play it with some ornamentation then cut the takes up and pieced something together. The bass I just never got round to doing, its still midi lol. Not the ideal situation for recording a Jazz tune, which has definitely factored into the final effect of the track. I do agree with the points on the chords not always connecting smoothly and the melody being hectic, but this is the kind of effect I was looking for with this song, I'd been playing a lot of standards with changes that almost 'play themselves' such as Summertime, Autumn Leaves, Fly Me To The Moon etc. and I wanted to write something that makes the musicians work a little to make sound good. I really like the melody too, not sure why but I'm just fond of it. Thanks for the feedback, I'll definitely take it to heart in future. I'll post the only other 'standard' I've written as well actually (which was about a year and half before this one), it was an arrangement of a folk tune I made previously (you can see it if you look into my attachments or look down in the dadgad guitar thread) so it was never really a serious attempt, just playing around in Sibelius. This one stays in key more due to the having originally been a folk tune, I prefer the B section to the A as I just like its melody better untitled jazz.mid

This is a beautiful piece, the harmony and melody combine perfectly and really carry you away. I'm going to be busy for a couple of days but after that I'll copy it out and analyse it then post some scans for you to see.

This is my attempt at a jazz stardard, its vaguely based on a minor blues. The guest pianist that played on it is an incredibly good player and played an amazing part. http://files.getdropbox.com/u/134504/Take%20a%20Look%20Around.mp3

A little while back I wanted to do a mood piece with samples and ambience, this is my attempt. http://files.getdropbox.com/u/134504/Loch%20Lomond.mp3 Loch Lomond score.pdf

This is a song I wrote a little while ago and recorded with a friend. It was essentially an excersise in my weaker songwriting aspects, playing and arranging for instruments and in a style that I'm not so used to. http://files.getdropbox.com/u/134504/Moments%20Colllide.mp3 I especially like the outro, I love how the harmony goes into flux and the vocal comes in with another countermelody.

I really like this, really nice melody, harmony and arrangement. I liked the last little bit especially. Only thing I'd say is that sometimes at the start the melody felt like it wanted to rest on one note for a bit but it was ornamented; I would bring the ornamentation in more slowly over the course of the tune and start of very simple.

Its one of the Ibanez exotic wood series, its got a shallow body and a cutaway and the back of the neck is shaped slightly closer to an acoustic guitar. Its a bit quiet acoustically but its got a nice pickup and preamp and sounds amazing recorded or amplified live. Heres a little sample of how it sounds. http://files.getdropbox.com/u/134504/fingerpicking%20riffs.mp3

Cheers for the feedback, yeah its definately not traditional irish music, I just wanted to do a tune on an irish style dadgad nylon tuned guitar. I wrote a folk tune a while ago actually of no specific regional style, I'll attach it to this post. The midi and score are definately lacking, I wrote it on guitar and just quickly jotted it out in midi to post here as I don't have a proper recording. When I play it I add more little variations variations and play a little free'er with more melodic emphasis and a more dynamic tempo variation between the sections so I think it'd be a bit more interresting. Its not really going to ever be a really intense and attention demanding piece though, it was always intended to just be a 'nice' tune with some pleasant melodies. I don't thing drop D would work with it, a lot of the melody, harmonics and especially the open cluster chord shapes that give it its nice ambience come from the A and D drone strings, thanks for the suggestion anyway though. untitled folk.mid

I Wrote this piece the other day as I'm going to be spending some time in Ireland and I wanted to write a few pieces in an Irish tuning to play while I'm over there. Structurally its quite simple, essentially just sectioned up like a pop song. I like the use of droning strings and cluster chords though, and I like the melody too. folkguitar.mid folkguitar.pdf

Been working on some songs to perform with my friends, we came up with some decent sounding chords and I put a vocal melody to it later (there are vocals, but they're very rough). Has anyone got any opinions on it? It was a pretty rough draft to midi so it doesn't really sound as good as with 2 of us singing/playing and a drum machine but it gets over the essence. Has anyone got any suggestions how the chorus could go? I envisioned that as the verse and postverse/prechorus but my friend thought it was the verse and chorus, it needs something else to go with it either way though. Hopefully I'll have it finished to play at the open mic night tomorrow night so If I get it done I'll post the finished thing. Thanks. songver1.mid

I like it a lot, excellent rhythm, it was 99% rhythm holding my interest.