Question: how do you get six different flutes, in effectively different pitch references, to harmonize together? Answer: you cheat 😉 1. Arranging When I started this arrangement, I wasn’t entirely sure it would work. The idea was to capture some of the feeling of the original album version with the melody sitting in the middle […]
One of the “facts of life” when dealing with Native American flute is that they vary in pitch reference. Sometimes this is intentional because the maker tuned it that way, for example A=440Hz vs A=432Hz. Sometimes it is environmental – a cooler flute plays flatter than a warmer flute. Sometimes it is player preference – […]
Pre-production: The idea for this one started with a Facebook post about a modern take on the suling. The example given was similar to a NAF, having 6 holes and pentatonic tuning, but it had a different tuning being tuned to a modern scale of B C D F# G. I got to thinking about […]
Sound Sample: “Killer Joe”, F#4 NAF by Carlton Styron One take through “Killer Joe” by Benny Golson F#4 NAF by Carlton Styron Backing track by “Essential Elements” Tuned down 1 semitone in Propellerhead Reason in order to use Bb instrument chart Recorded on Zoom Q3 video recorder Edited in LumaFusion and Cubasis on ipad Air […]
Disquiet Junto Project 0300: The 300th Project 3 chords x 100 seconds https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-the-300th-consecutive-weekly-project/9403 It’s been a long time since I’ve done a Junto, but after reading the directions and seeing it was #300, I had to give it a go. The chord selected is C# F F# D#/root,third,fourth,ninth – C#maj11? The instruments: Mersenne melodic percussion […]
In this Using… series article, we’re going to take a look at a potentially mind-blowing production technique for iOS. One of the best things about my “heavy duty” DAW on the PC, Propellerhead Reason, is that you can automate pretty much everything. From simple fader moves and bypass switches to low-level synth and effect parameters, […]
This song started with drum programming in the iPad app called Patterning. This is a really deep drum sequencing app, and I have barely scratched the surface with it. The main thing I wanted to explore with it was the probability layer. With this, you can assign a probability that a given hit will […]
This song is my “inspired by” take on Glenn Cashman’s “No Mercy”. As I wrote previously, I had originally used the name “Know Mercy” while working up the cover version, but changed it back after talking with Glenn. I also was not aware that Glenn’s tune was “inspired by” the Joe Zawinul tune “Mercy, Mercy, […]
Oops, just realized I forgot to hit “Publish” on this one, like six weeks ago. ☺️ This is my first two chamber flute often called a drone flute. But I wanted something a little bit different than the more normal “root only” drone. When I ran across the “harmony drone” concept I was immediately intrigued. […]
I’m not going to do a full production log on this one as there weren’t really any new tricks beyond what was written for No Mercy Compositionally, I wanted to write a melody that was “mostly major” for the NAF. The main melody focuses on the second hole of a D4 flute, thus putting […]
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