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January 2008
I guess I'm on a piano kick right now. This a little prelude by J.S. Bach. It's not the famous one from the first book of the Well Tempered Clavier, but they do share the constant-arpeggio idea. Old J.S. would occasionally scratch out little pieces for students, and I suspect this was one of those. It's really pretty.
It's a modest effort, and the performance has its flaws, but I'm proud of it because this is a single take. There are no edits. So for me it's a...
Labels denoting musical genres have multiplied in recent years. Sometimes it can seem like the whole process is getting a bit out of hand. Musicians have been busily sorting out their work from that of others and grouping together with like-minded artists. It might be good to step back and sort some of this out for ourselves.
I think of genre as being a notch or two up in the taxonomic hierarchy of music - like order is to genus in biological taxonomy - with the species perhaps being the work...
Found a cool loop, added some harmonica, guitar sounds, glockenspiel, and decorated the Whirly piano sound with this great scratched-record effect.
MP3: grooveexperiment.mp3
I'm taking advantage of the embedded mp3 player in the Fuzz blog to occasionally toss out odd snippets, jottings and improvisations that aren't proper songs or complete pieces. Some of these ideas may become whole tunes some time in the future, but for the most part, they won't see the light of day other than here. Nevertheless, you may find them worth 90 or so seconds of your time, if only out of curiosity.
This bit is audio taken directly from a Finale file. Finale is a very...