Wendi

Frustrated!

May 23, 2012

I’m so frustrated at the moment – I’m working through this piece and it’s not right – I’ve moved from one setup to another and it just highlights technical deficiencies and little things that clash sonically – & sure – I could rush it out the door but it wouldn’t be correct and would just [...]

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Pedaling on the 6 instead of the 3

May 18, 2012

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Of course said Charlotte – I never pedal on the 3 if I can help it The pedaling on the intro had been bugging me for a while – so – here it is with the correct set up – surely the full piece can’t be too far behind now! If you’d like to be [...]

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Getting into Wendi

May 4, 2012

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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 [...]

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Wendi – Transition Strings

April 26, 2012

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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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Hacker Thank You

March 1, 2012

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My mother always tells me to”smile at the enemy – it confuses them.“ So this is for the lovely human being who spent the last few days injecting nasty bits of malware into my index.php file – thank you. I’m thinking of moving to a new piano sound – this is it. If you’d like [...]

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Wendi Feb 10 Variation

February 15, 2012

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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 [...]

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Frustration Blues

February 3, 2012

I don’t know why, but, when I get to the end of a piece I find it incredibly hard to finish. I’ve spent the last month rewriting, tweaking, hating the tone quality and generally being dreadfully unhappy with everything about the Wendi piece. This is normal – I wish I didn’t go through it but [...]

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Wendi – Second Keys

January 16, 2012

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transition from one theme to another – no editing yet – just volume and tones – lots of listening to do… If you’d like to be notified when it is published – you can become a free member and download the Writer’s playlist too or sign up below for the new music newsletter. New Music [...]

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