Wendi

Wendi Initial Strings

October 6, 2011
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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! Don’t forget [...]

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Working on Wendi

September 24, 2011
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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 [...]

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Wendi 107 – String Development

September 7, 2011
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Back after a lazy labor day weekend (yes – American spelling but it is their holiday ya’ know!) and already fighting the heat. 101 yesterday, promising to be 106 later today – so – up early and getting stuff done before it gets too hot. I really like this tempo – 107 bpm for the [...]

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Wendi – Development

August 23, 2011
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Everybody in my family has themes, some I’ve worked up, some are still in development. My wife has at least three that I know of and I have yet to complete any of them – I thought it was about time (so did she!) This is the basic outline of the core G minor theme [...]

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Wendi – Piano Theme

July 19, 2011
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Nath is coming along nicely – I’ve been listening to Mix 2 all weekend and am ready for the next one. There are some stunning parts to the theme and I’ll probably post one or two later on this week. There are a number of fairly well developed themes that have yet to be completed [...]

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2007 – People 1

July 28, 2009
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Writing for the different weddings and workshops had opened a door into a new way of creating themes. 2007 was a development of that approach combined with a growing familiarity with the workings of the Korg Triton. Heath, Wendi and Victoria are all two voice pieces where the piano track is recorded first and the [...]

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Marsha – 18 minutes 57 seconds

June 9, 2009

Piano, Organ, Strings with a renaissance edge   $1.99 Download Now I used three voices on this track: Piano, Organ and Strings. I have been using organ more and more on the Kelli project and I wanted to see how it would fit into the overall style of this kind of piece. As ever, the [...]

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New music2work2 – Wendi 163 Keys

May 29, 2009

Development of Wendi’s G minor theme in 163 bpm – Keys only.[Audio clip: view full post to listen] I haven’t played in ages – it’s a very scary thing sometimes. Tonight I asked Wendi for a number between 45 and 200 – she came up with 163 – I plugged that into the metronome and [...]

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