etude #9, pt. 3
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Write for a trio using only pentatonic material
Man, this one took forever.
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Write for a trio using only pentatonic material
I’m definitely biting off way more than I can chew with this exercise.
More …etude #9
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Write for a trio using only pentatonic material
Here I want to start jumping around a bit. And since I need some practice writing some Japanese folk-inspired music, this seemed like a good exercise to jump to.
So, first things first, I need to pick some instruments. I can change them later, but it’ll help to have something to start with. And since I definitely want to stick with freely-available instruments while I’m still learning, my options are somewhat limited. Eventually, I narrowed it down to:
- koto
- shakuhachi
- some vaporwavey-sounding synth (TBD)
- dungeon synth drums, with maybe a taiko drum if I can find it
etude #8
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Write a musical phrase for two instruments containing several perfect fourths (or other consonant interval you wish to experiment with) and then create a contrast with several dissonant fourths (or other dissonant interval).
For this one I didn’t really have an idea to start, just that I wanted to branch out a little bit with instruments & I wanted to try to actually add drums.
I settled on a piano, a windy-sounding synth, and a backing cavernous pad for extra color. I also kept the dungeon synth drum pack I used for the last exercise.
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Write a musical passage where a contrast occurs in the form of question and answer where harmony questions and only percussion answers