Nice one, Frank :)
--- On Sat, 25/9/10, lsf5275@aol.com <lsf5275@aol.com> wrote:
From: lsf5275@aol.com <lsf5275@aol.com>
Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: 3 Gymnopedies Featuring George Chisholm
To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
Received: Saturday, 25 September, 2010, 11:17 AM
"I was a grumpy bear..." "I was drunk..." Jeez! Excuses excuses.
In a message dated 9/24/2010 7:10:42 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
ecclesreinson@rogers.com writes:
I was a grumpy bear this morning. Sorry Mark. I liked the slowest piece and
the faster ones were comical.
Clay
--- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com,
Mark Pring <markpringnz@...> wrote:
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> 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
> often
criticise professional musicians we don't disparage each others
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work.
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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.Â
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 unusalÂ
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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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSG3e9t8_ns
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> Cheers
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> Mark
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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 ofÂ
deep coal mine.
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> --- On Sat, 25/9/10, ClayE
<ecclesreinson@...> wrote:
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> From: ClayE
<ecclesreinson@...>
> Subject: [newmellotrongroup] Re: 3
Gymnopedies Featuring George Chisholm
> To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
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Received: Saturday, 25 September, 2010, 1:14 AM
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> Mark:
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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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> Clay
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> --- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com,
Mark Pring <markpringnz@> wrote:
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George Chishom on trombone. It is weird to think he has been dead 13 years and
that by using samples of something recorded over 50 years ago he is forced to
play Satie's Gymnopedie in the present day. Are the names of the three ladies
scraping away in Harry Chamberlin's bedroom over 60 years ago known?
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> > After listening to the gymnopedie on and
off for the last 3 days, I might be a bit harsh on Satie, they are not that
bad but I still think they are overated.Show quoted textHide quoted text
