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Multiple strings over two distinct piano themes inspired by my brother, Richard.
My older brother has his birthday every year on the same day, the 11th of December - it is the most normal thing about him. He is an amazing human being and I love him. This was written for his 41st birthday - the opening cadence was sung in my head, "Richard my brother," and off it goes.
I experimented a lot with this track. the core piano theme came first and defined the structure. I then laid 4 different string voices on top, one pass after the other without listening to the previous pass. By then removing what didn't work, I arrived at what you hear now; a piece for a string quartet with piano. This is another piece that I look forward to sitting down and developing if I ever get time!
It was Richard who opened a door to this magical musical world in which I now live and adore, I will be eternally grateful for his invitation.
The dramatic change in the piece at around six and half minutes is a variation on one of Richard's creations. We have played music together for most of our lives and he is a terrific singer songwriter guitarist and musician. This is a variation on a song called "This Way Out" from the Stirling Brig years. I always loved his lyrics, they were always - and still are - from his heart - and "This Way Out" spoke volumes to me.
Coming out of that variation back into the core theme at ten minutes or so, I'm trying to create a sense of hope and optimism. Which is of course what I wish for him and his family.
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Still concentrating on working on our MySpace friends. The new look to our MySpace page is now finished; I really like it. One thing that I have found with MySpace.com is that they don't give enough information about the features of the site. The FAQs and the "Help" link talk more about the MySpace accounts than they do about managing the features available.
On the world map, the icon indicates that I'm not even in the United States. I spent quite a while trying to find some information about how it could be changed. I guess I'm just dense or blind, but I finally noticed that the World Map is handled from a whole different web site.
Maybe the problem is not with the "Help" section of the MySpace web site. Maybe I just need more help than most people.