Session 2 - 191 Beats Per Minute

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Track Notes:

The big lesson I am learning this year (again!) is the whole:

 "listening as much, if not more, than I play." 

Process

I don't use pen and paper to compose - I sit at the piano and play whatever comes into my mind.  I record everything and listen to it later when I'm working on Simply Friday.

When I have development tracks on in the background, I'm listening for ideas, for themes, for things that resonate with me.  If a piece of music grabs me, the next time I sit at the piano, I hold the idea of that music in the front of my mind and set an intention to play with it.

Listening Again

Once I've narrowed in on a theme, the more I play it, the more it becomes familiar to me.  The more I listen the more its form becomes apparent and over time the full track begins to take shape.

Of course, once I've produced a version of the final track, it then needs to be listened to again and again to smooth out the mix and get it ready for publishing.

191 Beats Per minute Playlist

This is the second track in the 191 Bpm playlist and is markedly different from the first theme.  I'm in love with the simple C to F7 to Dm7 to G7 progression that appears in the second half.  

The third and final theme has already popped out (thankfully!) so it shouldn't be too long before we have a new track and a new playlist! 

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Stampy's Lovely World 1 - Keys YouTube

I'm a big fan of Daniel Rosenfeld's soundtrack for Minecraft - there's something about the simplicity that just works when you're in game.  Having said that - one of my favorite things to do is to watch someone playing Minecraft and improvise a theme based on what they do in the game.

We have a couple of tracks on music2work2: Build and Create that were made in this way.  To develop this a little further we thought we'd come up with a new sound track for one of the more popular Minecraft YouTube videos - Stampy's Lovely World.

The purpose of this is not to replace or improve on the existing soundtrack - it's just to offer an alternative.  I think there's something about having the music derived from the actual game play that delivers something unique and interesting.

This track has already been developed with Strings and we will be publishing those later on this month.

Of course, you don't need to play Minecraft to work to this music - if you're a fan of solo piano and thematic development - this should work for you regardless of what you're doing with your mind!

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Creeper Coming - Minecraft Music

This is from the original session for Stampy's Lovely World alternative audio - I ended up scrapping and developing another theme as this one was just too brooding and minor - however - I thought this section came together rather well.  It's a little loose and not really edited but you get the idea.

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