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Post by keff on Dec 21, 2023 18:55:16 GMT
This week I finished a piano piece that uses a melody I've been struggling with since I was 16! (It has mutated a couple of times along the way.) I have a knack for coming up with tunes that are beyond my abilities to harmonise, so this was extremely satisfying. Congratulations. |
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Post by Zi on Dec 21, 2023 19:07:52 GMT
That's nice! It must feel really good... and it must be an important melody for you because I'm assuming you're older than 18...  (that's the age requirement here!) |
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Post by corenfa on Dec 24, 2023 18:04:55 GMT
Not my composing, but I'm helping my friend sort out his score- the notation software transposed something and put stupid combinations of accidentals in it.
Exciting- when the score is cleaned up, I'll try to record the piece for him to put on his website for publicity. Got to make sure I do a proper job of it then...
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Post by keff on Dec 24, 2023 18:21:22 GMT
I am sure you will make a superb job of it.
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Post by Zi on Dec 24, 2023 18:24:27 GMT
Got to make sure I do a proper job of it then I'm sure he'll be delighted! |
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Post by corenfa on Dec 30, 2023 13:18:16 GMT
Oh dear, it's all getting a bit serious... am now considering getting a new laptop so I can run notation software.
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Post by keff on Dec 30, 2023 13:31:32 GMT
Oh dear, it's all getting a bit serious... am now considering getting a new laptop so I can run notation software. Sounds like a good use of money...but who am I to talk....since Christmas Day I've been thinking about a new vinyl turntable just to play a few LPs that to my knowledge haven't been transferred to CDs and then I spotted a used so called Broadwood baby grand said to be manufactured after year 2000. Its serial number doesn't give the impression that it is a genuine John Broadwood piano so that has deflated me a little. |
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Post by corenfa on Dec 30, 2023 13:45:44 GMT
Oh dear, it's all getting a bit serious... am now considering getting a new laptop so I can run notation software. Sounds like a good use of money...but who am I to talk....since Christmas Day I've been thinking about a new vinyl turntable just to play a few LPs that to my knowledge haven't been transferred to CDs and then I spotted a used so called Broadwood baby grand said to be manufactured after year 2000. Its serial number doesn't give the impression that it is a genuine John Broadwood piano so that has deflated me a little. My laptop is from 2013, so it would not be too crazy to get a new one (realistically, I'd get an old one second hand, I never get the newest models). |
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Post by keff on Dec 30, 2023 13:53:14 GMT
This (MAC) laptop is from 2016 but I had an operating system upgrade two years ago. The batteries do not store as much charge as they once did.
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Post by Zi on Dec 30, 2023 14:56:04 GMT
I'm not a laptop person. I like the heat that comes off a desk based PC... and the way the lights dim... However, I think new shiny things are good! And you sound very enthusiastic about the direction this is taking so you definitely need a new laptop!
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Post by corenfa on Dec 30, 2023 16:02:47 GMT
In my case it would have to be a laptop as I have to be able to plug it into the electric piano, as well as move it around
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Post by Zi on Dec 31, 2023 11:49:19 GMT
In my case it would have to be a laptop as I have to be able to plug it into the electric piano, as well as move it around Oh, trust me - I'd have miles of cable which I'd then trip over. I don't like wireless either... I did have an iPad during chemo but it went all funny and repairing it wasn't cost effective. I got all disgusted with the price of the things so I bought a Samsung instead. That is sooo wrapped up with Google - it took me a while to disentangle it and every so often it bleats about stuff but I don't use it much now. I used it mostly for doing the grocery shopping. However, the signal here is appalling so I prefer to be plugged into that too. For someone who likes gadgets - and I do - I've ended up with some very strange quirks... Anyway, it sounds like you're really enjoying the process of composing so I hope 2024 brings lots more music!  |
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Post by pavane on Dec 31, 2023 15:54:07 GMT
....since Christmas Day I've been thinking about a new vinyl turntable just to play a few LPs that to my knowledge haven't been transferred to CDs
After our recent holiday that included sampling several cafés that specialised in jazz on vinyl, Mrs P and I bought ourselves a new turntable before Christmas. Lots of fun! I think the 15-20 minute chunk of music you get actually makes you listen to it more closely, which is not a bad thing.
Oddly enough, I was reading about the vinyl revival just this morning. I thought it would only be about oldies like myself but a friend was telling me over the holiday that his grandchildren are really enthusiastic about vinyl. That must explain the prices being asked for old LPs that I glanced at briefly at a Christmas market - they were staggering considering it was stuff you probably couldn't have given away a few years ago. |
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Post by corenfa on Dec 31, 2023 18:22:04 GMT
In my case it would have to be a laptop as I have to be able to plug it into the electric piano, as well as move it around Oh, trust me - I'd have miles of cable which I'd then trip over. I don't like wireless either... I did have an iPad during chemo but it went all funny and repairing it wasn't cost effective. I got all disgusted with the price of the things so I bought a Samsung instead. That is sooo wrapped up with Google - it took me a while to disentangle it and every so often it bleats about stuff but I don't use it much now. I used it mostly for doing the grocery shopping. However, the signal here is appalling so I prefer to be plugged into that too. For someone who likes gadgets - and I do - I've ended up with some very strange quirks... Anyway, it sounds like you're really enjoying the process of composing so I hope 2024 brings lots more music! That's my new year's resolution- write more music. It'll be unplayable and might be unlistenable, but as I told my composer friend, I only do it for myself. Basically I need to come up with some sort of harmonic framework, as what I did in the past was throw random shapes on the keyboard and hope it stuck. |
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Post by corenfa on Feb 22, 2024 20:46:54 GMT
I have kept to my new year's resolution. I have acquired Dorico, which on my iPad works very well. I have transcribed a song that I wrote as a composition project in university, for piano.
And I am still working with my composer friend, I have transcribed a couple of things, am practising them for recording, and have commissioned a few more.
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(that's the age requirement here!)
