Jeneric 19 minutes 26 seconds

Piano, Strings, Organ & Beats for Jennifer & Eric

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Here's another piece written for two beautiful people who just announced their engagement; Congratulations Jennifer & Eric - may you have a long and wonderful life together.

I've been laughing over the name of this track - Jeneric - I'm sure people have been watching the development of it and going - "Silly Andrew - doesn't know how to spell generic, and also - why would you call a unique piece of music Generic!?" Well - now that you know the piece was written for Jennifer and Eric, I'm guessing you can work the title out, also, there's nothing like a little misinformation to get people thinking.

This is the first track that I have developed to completion in 2009 and it's getting published in November - yep, it's been an "interesting" year. The track continues 2008's foray into working with beat tracks, Eric listens to a lot of dub music and I wanted to reflect some of that in the underlying groove of the track. As for the tempo - well - after a little research I found that Jennifer is the 84th most popular name for girls whereas Eric is the 86th most popular name for boys - so - I split the difference and the track is cut at 85 beats per minute!

Writers & Writing Playlist

Thea - Aerial Hoop

One more stage to go but this is the correct structure:[audio:http://music2work2.com/music/clipdownloads/thea-correct.mp3| titles=Thea - Correct |artists=music2work2] Download Couldn't quite nail the performance this morning - will do that tomorrow

I hope to be sitting down with my old engineer and producer Mike Lesniak this evening and working on string tones - if that goes well I think this would benefit from a second part.

Time to send this off to Thea and see what she thinks...

Boys Bedtime Music - 8 minutes 8 seconds

First piece of music2work2 from 2001 - Piano lullaby to get small children to sleep.[audio:bosbt2.5.mp3| titles=Boys Bedtime Music|artists=music2work2]

Getting two energetic children calmed down for bedtime is a challenge that most parents would recognize. Like many things that help, we stumbled upon the calming effect by accident;  I had been working on this particular piece and had it playing in the background while we were reading a bedtime story. When the story finished and we were kissing the boys goodnight, we heard a little voice asking us to keep the music on because "...the music helps me sleep".

So we did, and not only did it help them sleep, it also helped them recognize when it was time to sleep. We ended up putting a small CD player in their room and when it came close to bedtime, we would play the music in the background and it would have an instant calming effect. With the volume down low, it actually became quite fun to read a story with the background music; it made it sound like a film score! Sometimes the kids would be asleep by the end of the story, sometimes they'd be still awake, so long as the music continued to play, they wouldn't ask for another story, they'd just drift off listening to it. I ended up making a number of CD's with about 45 minutes of music. If we put them on say 5 minutes before bedtime, the kids were generally asleep before the CD stopped. Of course, when it comes to kids nothing works all the time, but on most nights, it was perfect.

Download: Boys Bedtime Music