Another slow one

[folderol]

Hey, there's getting to be quite a crowd of us

My offering is called Lazy Day, and it's just a very slow 12bar. Putting this together turned out to be more difficult than I expected. I had to quantize the percussion to get something stable I could hang the rest on, but that just showed up how variable my playing is

[elwoodblues1969]

Will,

This piece is a sweet definition of a lazy day & it's very pretty! The percussion is nice,but could use some breaks in it.
The lead synth in the beginning & latter part of the song is stumbling over the drums though.....however though,the timing of the brass lead synth is very good.
If your interested,I'd like to do a collaboration with you & introduce some of my ideas to your song,if I may.
I don't think we've ever done a co-production together & I think it would be fun....so if you're up for it,send me separate WAV files of everything & let's see what develops.

-Thom

[elwoodblues1969]

Actually...come to think of it,we did do a collab in the past...hmmm-I think I need to reform the hard drive in my brain,or do a defrag or something.

[folderol]

Thanks for listening Thom, and for your comments. It's curious how those timing discrepancies seem to vanish without the percussion

I like the idea of a collab, so will generate the individual wav files for you. Normally I have Rosegarden 'playing' all the MIDI tracks at once to a single stereo pair.

Yes, we did an bit of a collab before. I scattered a few notes on top of your 'Orange Flares'

[MRT]

Not sure probably the synth pad in the back but it kind of made me feel like Christmas Eve. Probably in Wisconson as it seems like it might break into a polka at about 2:20.
Overall very soothing

[folderol]

Thanks for your comments. I'd never thought of it in a Christmassy way, but you're right it would sort of fit

[offthewall]

I've loved so much of your stuff recently, Will .....
but I'm not sure about this one, mate. 

From a 'synthist' point of view I feel that a little more 'naturality' ( ) or 'swing', or 'humanising', or whatever it's called would counteract the strictness of the percussion track.
(I truly don't know what these terms mean .... I hardly understand 'quantise' )

Nice melodies, though.
 
James

[Oren]

Another signature piece from the "Folderol Zone". (I'd recognize this style anywhere! )
Although the beat could be synched up a bit, to good effect, I assumed the variations were intentional...

This brings up some of the more interesting features of meter(beat) and pitch. Meter and pitch can be right on, or strategically "off", to create a mood or effect. In order for it to work, however, I feel it must be intentional. Generally, a listener can intuit if the off-beat or off-pitch notes are part of the composer's/performer's intent, and accept the "discrepancy" as an integral part of the experience.

[MarioD]

Will, this is fantastic.  A very lovely and flowing soundscape.  Everything is spot on IMHO.

This went straight to my keep folder.

[folderol]

Thanks again for your comments guys. This track has been rather problematical for me, and as James picked up, I'm still not really comfortable with it. In some ways I think it sounds better without the percussion.

The other point is that I think I was trying to play it too slowly at 60bpm. Quite a lot of the time little runs finish too early for the bar. I'm debating doing it again afresh at say 70bpm (although that would be too late for the competition and also 'out of range')