Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: The Mellotron Group

I'm pretty stoked. I've had a productive day revising a composition (For flute and two distinct Mellotron parts) I made two years ago for my last music theory class. I did a very good job back then but it still had problems.

First: I slapped all the composition and all the recording together in a week. Recording was actually relegated to about 6 hours stretched over two evenings. That and I still had a lot to learn about being a badass flutist first and foremost. Two years of work should've cleaned that up, we'll find out.

Second: it definitely could not be played live because I indiscrimnantly overdubbed some parts, so far as two distinct lines for one flute player. Oopsies, well I fixed that entirely.

Third: some parts just weren't that interesting or could have been written better. I say I've fixed that but others will judge too.

Fourth: I was and still am a BARELY competent keyboard man. This hasn't changed since two years ago so actually sitting here with my plastic keyboard and trying to record the two Melly parts is going to be a royal bitch. I'm thinking of contacting an organist friend of mine to do it if I can't.

What I've got is a solo flute part and two distinct Mellotron parts. Doable live. Two M400s or two MIDI controllers and two laptops, or one and one. This time I took care to not use more than 3 sounds for each part and to have each part ENTIRELY playable by one hand alone.

Maybe tomorrow or maybe in a few days, but sometime this week I'm going to start recording the piece. I hope I can work out the Mellotron parts (separately is all I'm going for), last time I cheated and only played a single notes of a chord as separate takes so the transition from chord to chord wouldn't be wretched. I don't want to cheat again. The parts are infinitely more playable so I might get this.

Well I'll post something up once I get it all done.

-Sean