Swing! Time

Hi guys,

Here's a little screencast of a little swing piece

Very nice!!! Very, VERY nice! Reminds me of Ivor Slaney and that's a high compliment because I LOVE Ivor Slaney.

Were you inspired by Slaney?

It's too short... I want more! You've got real talent! Keep 'em coming!

Thank you very much!

No, I don't know Slaney but after listening to Window Gazing I see your point! Thanks for pointing me to him because that is EXACTLY the kind of music I like to write 🙂

2 hours ago, epii said:

Were you inspired by Slaney?

 

You made my day knowing that I turned someone on to Ivor Slaney's music.  :)

Actually, I just found him a few months ago myself, oddly enough because I heard some wonderfully whimsical background music in some obscure video game. The game fortunately had a tiny picture of an album cover so I zoomed in and was able to make out the blurred name "Ivor Slaney". I went straight to YouTube and BAM! I struck gold! I think the music in that game was "Window Gazing"... It grabbed me from the first few notes and hooked me with the pizzicato! I listened to everything I could find by this little known genius and love every single thing that I found. It was like.. shame on me for never having heard of him.

Anyway, I've been listening to your stuff here at YC and I must say that you are far and away the best talent I've heard on this forum! I'm a little embarrassed to admit that I don't often comment on pieces posted here at YC unless I'm really impressed at which point then I can't help but to comment. So here's a comment; I LOVE your stuff!!! Listening to your music makes me a better composer/arranger.

Like Slaney, I can imagine some of your music (and this is met as a compliment) as the background music of a 1950's dishwasher commercial in that bizarre 1950's consumer oriented period of American life. I say "bizarre" because it was such a naive idealized image that the public was being sold. Your music is a little anachronistic and that's a plus in my book. I think that particular musical style you achieve, like Slaney, is somehow innate in all of us. Maybe Slaney originated it, I don't know. But it sure pushes the happy button in our brains. It says; "I'm happy, you're happy, everybody and everything is happy and there is nothing to worry about, just buy more stuff and be even happier". Of course - to buy more stuff - sounds great in theory but definitely as we now know, it is not. It's led to too much CO2 in the atmosphere among many other bad things. But that musical style is just so damn happy that it must uplift anyone who hears it. No reason to think that that musical magic can't be the "new" musical soundtrack for sequestering CO2 out of the atmosphere. Maybe you're the one that could bring it back! 

We need "happy" again, only this time we'll hopefully do it right. Not that absurd facade of the lily white America of the 50's of course, but a true happiness of racial diversity and ecological awareness. As for the new "green" movement, it needs a musical background that can inspire hope and happiness 'cause right now it's all looking pretty damn grim. Like they say; "What's old is new again" (in this case, as it pertains to music). We humans are helpless to fight the power of great musical composition/arranging that utilizes that whimsical pizzicato/woodwind pairing but only in the hands of a capable composer. And you're that capable composer my friend. I know I'm laying it on heavy but music is powerful medicine. And we need trained doctors on this ailing planet. We need another Ivor Slaney. Even if one finds him/herself in the darkest of moods and wants only to stew in a depressed state, all it takes is a kitten hopping playfully through the tall grass to magically melt away that mindset... if only for that moment.

Yes... you are the kitten.

That's the power you possess with your music. I think it was Stan Lee who said "With great power comes great responsibility". So use your power wisely young padwan. I know you will.  :)

very nice..  yes, I like the happy feel too..   wasn't the main riff similar to one used for shopping commercials, back in the 50's or 60's.  Or was that music done by Ivor Slaney.  I admit, I know nothing about him.. going to check it out.

In any event this is quite catchy, quite humorous, I love the responses to the harmonies pitzacattos. brilliant.