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Piano, Strings, Rhodes, Beats & Tribbles
I am actively focusing on developing new beats with reason and using them as the base track to freestyle on – it’s great fun.
The original beat track is in 7 time with a tempo of 42 beats per minute (thank you @DarinRMcClure) – makes for an interesting groove. I ended up playing with several different beats and putting them through various oscillators and frequency filters – the Tribble sound started off as a chemical beat – go figure!
Piano, Strings and an 808 heart beat
I hope everybody had a great holiday – I certainly did. I suspect I’m like many of you in that I use Christmas and New Year as a release valve after the pressure of the year. Two weeks of relaxing, hanging out with family and friends and drinking and eating far too much – I love it!
2009 was a particularly challenging year and yet looking back – music2work2 made giant strides forward. We completely re-designed the website, changed the logo, moved to a new recording platform and a new keyboard, distributed to iTunes and Amazon MP3 stores, wrote the score to a unique animated movie and sent out our first newsletter. Not bad on reflection.
I cannot tell you how excited I am about this New Year – I’m going back to school next week to learn how to use the Topspin marketing platform – this will make it much easier for people to listen to and easily share music2work2. I haven’t taken a class in 20 years – should be fun
This track was inspired by a chance encounter with a Techno gear head masquerading as a University professor – it was a great evening which resulted in us working up a piece built around a Roland 808 and an old Juno 60 – you can listen to the audioboo clip here. Craig’s working on it for now and when he’s done I’ll add a piano track – I think it might be kinda cool.
One of my favorite pieces of solo piano music on music2work2 is Emma - along with its accompanying piece, the music was written to help a friend get through chemo.
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Emma chose to visualize her cancer as a blowfish - it gave her something tangible to direct her energy at and guess what - it worked. Emma not only came out the other end and continued driving her boats across the planet, she ended up writing a book about her experience. I think Em puts it best with the following:
"Now I know I am a no-body and not famous, I am not important and haven’t “done” anything special, no feat of amazing endurance like climbing Everest in my slippers but that is hopefully just the point I think. I am an ordinary Jo with an ordinary story that is not unusual - after all there are 44,000 of us each year diagnosed with breast cancer. There is plenty of information advising us how we will feel throughout the experience, the notorious chemotherapy looms large with each leaflet, but there is little to tell us how to handle this disease - how to get out of bed and how to look yourself in the mirror and deal with the daily nightmare.
I think you all know about the book and it’s aim - I hope my story will be inspirational and motivational to women and men who are also battling this horrific disease but I also hope the account is useful to the family and friends who are also affected in a profound way. I hope you can help me get my story and my message out there.
If my book helps to get one person off their sofa and fighting then I will have succeeded!
Thank you all
Em
