Just as with life – often times you need to get warmed up before you get stuck in; I have found that in order to easily to get into Wendi, I need to get my fingers limber and my head in the right place!

I have this piece of music, based around the Wendi theme that gets me thinking in three voices and helps me transition into the main theme without thinking. Here’s a clip from this morning’s session before everything went to shit, you’ll hear the beginning of the main theme start at 3:15…

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I haven’t been posting ‘cos I’ve been playing – right now the focus is solely on getting this piece finished and everything else takes a back seat. There are still a few areas that need to be hammered but I’m as close as I’ve been. Finally worked out the strings for the main theme transition.

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It’s been a shitty couple of days; sometimes all you can do is take the shit and transform it into something else.

I like this – it has a foreboding about it which is kind of cool as neither the keys or the lower strings ever play the minor third – everything is fifths, fourths, sevenths and ninths. It’s only the top strings that can’t resist hitting the G.

I’m releasing this and everything attached to it.

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Still struggling with the piece but working to push on through. This is a variation on the theme from last Friday which I’ve been listening to a lot. It’s helping me dial in the tones and the various relationships between the individual voices.

Of course I like this so much I’m thinking about how to incorporate it into the main theme; as Charlotte says – it is ridiculously sad and I kind of like that…

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transition from one theme to another – no editing yet – just volume and tones – lots of listening to do…

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Raw mix from this morning’s session. The string parts are almost there and the keys are pretty much dialed in too. This is using the raw audio from the Roland HP203 which I kinda dig. No balancing and just a little bit of panning. Still not got the parts on the back end – but that should come throughout the week.

Been listening to this all week along with a deeper variation of the core piano theme – the strings need editing but you can hear where they’re going. I love the initial C# where the top string comes in – it delivers a subtle spookiness which is appropriate I think for this theme!

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Have arrived at the actual tempo – 108 bpm – slowing it right down and leaving huge amounts of space for the strings. This is the first run of many to really dial it in and see where the voices sit – no mixing – just a little panning and the occasional clam…

And who knew – Guinness Black Lager – never seen it before – weird but strangely good…

After we publish a new piece of music2work2 we always produce an additional piece that is sent to our paying members as a thank you.

Having recently published Nath, here is an unedited clip from the 11 minute thank you piece that will be go out to annual members next week.

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Free members get to download the Writer’s playlist which contains Frustration - the most popular music2work2 track.

Should be the final mix – fingers crossed -