[Music] Yugo: A Little Jazz 03/17/09

[Yugo]

Yar, here thar be music.

First thing up is a quickie I made today, very Spanish/Byzantium-esque.

Knights of Malta

The trumpets might be nicer if they were real.

As I add more, I'll start to index them.

My weapons of choice are:
Propellerhead Reason 6.0
Logic Pro
Samson MDR6 Line/Mic Mixer
Edirol UA-4FX D/I and effects interface
Kurzweil PC2 Keyboard
Schecter Stiletto Custom-5 5-String Bass
Peavey Millennium BXP Piccolo Bass
Brice HXB-406 6-String Fretless Bass

Index:
October 20th, 2008:
Knights of Malta
October 22nd, 2008:
Fretless Improv
October 29th, 2008:
Waltz  for Jyraneth
November 3rd, 2008:
Waltz for Qaisyne
December 11th, 2008:
Duet for Oboe and Bassoon
March 17, 2009
A Little Jazz

[Tapewolf]

How much of it was live, and how much of it was sequenced?  The trumpet is obviously sampled, the rest of it is a bit more difficult to tell.

I can't honestly say it's my preferred style of music, but it made a pleasing accompaniment to my crimes in Oblivion 

[Yugo]

Everything in the track is sequenced, with the exception of the guitar solo, which I played live on the keyboard. Reason really does have some great guitar and percussion samples.  Thanks for your comment.

[llearch n'n'daCorna]

Yugo, I'd like to bring to your attention the section of the rules about how to name your thread.

Hint, hint. ;-]

[Yugo]

Here's a little fretless improv I did in the studio today to see how it all checked out. Hopefully I'll get to use it in a real track soon.

Fretless Improv

[Tapewolf]

It reminded me of one of the bass solos on Rick Wakeman's Henry VIII album.  Yours seems to drift a bit from the key of the accompaniment, but I guess that's what you get with a fretless guitar.

[Yugo]

I was playing a lot of chromatic things in there, as well as some modal improv that didn't fit into the overarching key, but maybe only one chord, and for a small amount of time at that. I'm still getting used to playing an unlined fretless bass, I'm sure my intonation will get better over time.

Thank you very much.

[Yugo]

Well, here's a piano piece I wrote for Keaton as a gift. It's called Waltz for Jyraneth.

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?d5mmn2vtgzn

Played by yours truly on a Kurzweil PC2 keyboard. 

[llearch n'n'daCorna]

Kinda cool. A little on the quiet side, though, when compared to the other things I have on xmms. Deliberate?

It's a pleasant tinkly little ditty, though.

[Tapewolf]

I'll have to listen to this on better hardware, but my initial impressions are as follows:
1. You're better at composing and performing classical piano than I'm ever likely to be

2. The low end seems to dissolve into mud.  As I say, this may very well be the result of trying to play it back on an Apple machine, but it could equally be the synth.  Bass piano seems to really separate the men from the boys when it comes to piano synthesis.  Either way, I had to play it back at double-speed to make sense of it.

**EDIT**

Bit of both.  On a decent system, the bassline still gets a little hard-to-follow around 50 seconds in.  On a different note, I'm not quite sure that the ending matches the rest of it, personally.

[Yugo]

Listening to it on my own system, I see exactly what you mean. Normally I do it at the college's studio, and it sounds a lot clearer on headphones through a mixer. I must've forgotten to set it flat before I bounced the track to an MP3.

And thank you very much. Both of those are just something that take practice. Almost any school of music will require that you have some aptitude on the piano. I'm also a composition major, so I've had to learn about these things. 

This is more of a 19th century style keyboard piece, in the era of Debussy of Scriabin than of the classical era. I may submit it as my term project. Thanks for the inspiration Keats, and enjoy your gift.

EDIT: It doesn't help that I had the sustain pedal going the whole time. It's why I refrained from the bass being too active. I guess it didn't help that much.

[Yugo]

A Waltz for Qaisyne

A variation on the first theme, with a much happier and brighter feeling.
Played by me on a Kurzweil PC2 keyboard. Enjoy your extra gift, Keats.

[Tapewolf]

You might want to do something about the thump at the beginning.  Other than that, it's quite nice.  Somehow it reminds me of the background music in Dink Smallwood.

[Yugo]

Duet for Oboe and Bassoon

My final project for music theory and composition this year is finally complete! 
Requirements involved the use of seventh chords, secondary functions, and at least one modulation. A few weeks ago I discovered how much I liked double reed woodwinds, so here you go, a duet for oboe and bassoon, with a supporting string section. Unfortunately, there are no double reed players in our school of music, so I couldn't get actual recordings of people playing it. Hope somebody enjoys it, though.

[WhiteFox]

Very much enjoyable. It's now on my iPod, and while I was drawing this afternoon I let it loop a few times.

[Yugo]

Thanks muchos Fox, that's quite a compliment. 

[Yugo]

A Little Jazz

Just something I did for somebody over at another forum for V-Day. (Quite late, in fact. )

Hope you enjoy it.

[Tapewolf]

Hope you enjoy it.

You have a bit of a hiss problem there, kicks in at 1:35.  That aside, the playing is good.  Not my kind of music, though.

[Yugo]

It's one of the side effects of single coil pickups. Turning one of them down causes hum. I didn't really feel like filtering it out at the time. Thanks, though.