I was a grumpy bear this morning. Sorry Mark. I liked the slowest piece and the faster ones were comical.
Clay
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> I will have to start by repeating my apology for my comments on Mike's'
> piece, I was rude and awoke the next morning very unhappy with myself and apologised at the first opportunity.
> When posting on the list I have always appreciated that although we will
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>  I don't think my output is good but I do think it is important to
> create music as well as listen to it. My stuff may be poop,
> I would have said shite myself, but it is mine, the gymnopedies were jokes, a bit like Glenn Gould playing Beethoven's Hammerklavier sonata or any Chopin. I set about trying to express my feelings towards the music, and it looks like I succeeded! Â
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> I used samples and FL Studio because with my limited keyboard skills it would have taken a few weeks to learn the piece and I would rather spend the time practicing Bach. Midi, a rigid beat and unusal tempi, suited my purposes. However to my surprise I did start to relent by the time I did the slowest piece, I did quite like the end result and I did smooth out the trombone a bit. I didn't like it enough to alter the dynamics or add rubato.
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> Â I don't understand the group's attitude to samples, the trombone sounds particularly good to my ears.
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> Anyway below is my last post. Features George again.
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> PS I am not comparing myself to Glenn Gould, in my heirachy of music, Glenn is playing the Art of Fugue on the summit of Mount Everest, Mike is playing Satie on a mellotron in Edinburgh and I am arsing about with M-tron at the bottom of deep coal mine.
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> Subject: [newmellotrongroup] Re: 3 Gymnopedies Featuring George Chisholm
> To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
> Received: Saturday, 25 September, 2010, 1:14 AM
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> All three of these are just midi sequences triggering mellotron samples. The tempo and artificial timing sounds like shit. I guess I'm a bit annoyed that you recently called a real recording of Satie with Mellotron "terrible", then you post this poop. I don't get it. Have you been at the pub again?
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> --- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, Mark Pring <markpringnz@> wrote:
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