Flute Fruit
Aug. 5th, 2008 12:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pasitheaIt's so good to have my flute back in my life. I've been playing while walking to and from work. Finding I have a lot to relearn and I'm not yet anywhere near as good as I was before the accident and I stopped playing 17 years ago, but parts of it are finding their way back.
What I really need to do in the near future is spend some time learning to compose. I've got the basics of just noodling around until I find some little progression that I like and I understand staying in a key and mixing other things into the progression to keep it from getting too stale but right now, I do feel like I'm repeating my progressions a little too often and I could do a lot more to mix things up. Of course, since it's single instrument and impromptu, I can't really take breaks and let other instruments come to the forefront to solve this problem, so what I really need to do is compose my progressions into a complete song or I need to get out ye olde garage band and mix in some other instruments. Why not? I can play keyboard, guitar, and recorder as well.
It's all just a matter of practice and finding the time though, I suppose. Still. It's quite nice to have my flute back.
Here's a couple samples of progressions I've worked on.
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dvnt_spirit:
Not as far along with this one (mostly because it's a lot harder to play) but it's definitely got some interesting bits in it, though I'm not fully convinced this isn't something I heard in a Shpongle track. :P
Untitled, unfinished
Opinions/suggestions/etc much appreciated. ... I don't know how to compose music. I could use any help I can get.
What I really need to do in the near future is spend some time learning to compose. I've got the basics of just noodling around until I find some little progression that I like and I understand staying in a key and mixing other things into the progression to keep it from getting too stale but right now, I do feel like I'm repeating my progressions a little too often and I could do a lot more to mix things up. Of course, since it's single instrument and impromptu, I can't really take breaks and let other instruments come to the forefront to solve this problem, so what I really need to do is compose my progressions into a complete song or I need to get out ye olde garage band and mix in some other instruments. Why not? I can play keyboard, guitar, and recorder as well.
It's all just a matter of practice and finding the time though, I suppose. Still. It's quite nice to have my flute back.
Here's a couple samples of progressions I've worked on.
These two are posted in
dvnt_spirit:
WoodSong Variation 1
WoodSong Variation 2
Not as far along with this one (mostly because it's a lot harder to play) but it's definitely got some interesting bits in it, though I'm not fully convinced this isn't something I heard in a Shpongle track. :P
Untitled, unfinished
Opinions/suggestions/etc much appreciated. ... I don't know how to compose music. I could use any help I can get.
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Date: 2008-08-05 08:28 pm (UTC)As far as learning... well, maybe you and I should both learn. I've really slacked off, and I'm not really progressing as a musician, I feel.
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Date: 2008-08-05 09:50 pm (UTC)Definitely am playing A-, B-, D-, E-, F, and G (avoiding C because it doesn't play nice in this song) I don't know that this really means it is in that key tho. I don't know how that works. :P
But yeah. Both songs have a lot of things I could do with them and I can hum out far more interesting variations of them, I just can't quite play them in front of a microphone yet.
On that point, it's funny. Setting matters a lot to me. Playing in front of a mic or people gives me some weird stress that makes it a lot harder for me to play my best. My absolute best is 'alone in the woods'. I tend to use the world around me as stuff to sync to and gather ideas from. I also play with a lot more energy and animation. I've noticed that when I'm walking and playing to the second song, I actually dance to it, rather like the pied piper. It's almost better/easier to play if I'm in motion and I've been throwing my whole body into do the pull-off overblown notes in it. I can't do that for the mic due to its limitations but I can tell the kinetic version of the performance is way way better. I just have no idea how to capture that. Also, for some reason, when I'm walking/playing in the woods, I seem to have less repetition and more variation and longer wandering parts before I return to the anchor bits. (I don't know what the musical term for that is) When I'm performing just to hear myself perform, I'm much better than when I'm performing for an 'audience', even if that's just a recording device . Got to figure out how to get over that.
There are several other partial-songs that I have put together and practice while I'm walking but it probably would be a good exercise to score these and make them into a complete song of some type.