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Topic: Steel in Whole Tone Tuning: ( Contains Graphic Dissonance!) |
Kevin Macneil Brown
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Montpelier, VT, USA
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Posted 12 Mar 2009 9:03 am |
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For any interested, here's a composition made with a 6-string steel tuned to whole tone intervals. I spent a few days mapping out melodic motifs and chords, then recorded the piece solo in real time with a reverb and delay paradigm I'd set up within the recording software.
http://www.jukeboxalive.com/player/player.php?sid=2088723&method=play
Thanks for listening! |
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Twayn Williams
From:
Portland, OR
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Posted 12 Mar 2009 9:30 am
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Very nice! If you're not into real-time looping, you should probably look into it.
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Dave Begalka
From:
Minnesota, USA
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Posted 12 Mar 2009 9:37 am
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| Excellent. I encourage you to keep posting your compositions. |
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Kevin Macneil Brown
From:
Montpelier, VT, USA
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Posted 15 Mar 2009 4:32 am
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I appreciate the kind comments, guys.
Twayn: I've been known to consort with an old school rack-mount Lexicon Jamman, probably will do so again.
Dave: I do post new stuff from time to time, usually at "steel on the web".
Thanks for giving a listen. |
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Mike Harris
From:
Texas, USA
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Posted 15 Mar 2009 5:55 am
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I like it, but I don't hear the whole tone tuning...
the first notes strike me as 5, 4, 1, then #4. WT scale would be 1, 2, 3, #4, b6, b7 or their equivalents...just curious, I don't mean to sound snarky or anything.
Last edited by Mike Harris on 15 Mar 2009 11:33 am; edited 1 time in total |
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David Lee Myers
From:
New York, USA
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Posted 15 Mar 2009 9:24 am
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| Jukeboxalive link doesn't seem to be working, you might want to check it. |
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Kevin Macneil Brown
From:
Montpelier, VT, USA
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Posted 18 Mar 2009 7:16 am
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Mike: Thanks for listening so closely. Your ear is good indeed. I agree that the piece does not really have a whole tone feel to it. I guess the tuning was a jumping-off point to take me outside of boxes of my own making.
David: Jukeboxalive audio player sometimes requires disabling of pop-up blockers; perhaps that's the case here.
Thank you again to all who give a listen. |
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Mike Ihde
From:
Boston, MA
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Posted 19 Mar 2009 3:54 pm
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| Nice and moody. Reminds me of the waterfall I have in the bedroom with some looped soothing sounds. I kept waiting to hear a slide. It all sounds cool but could have been done on any instrument, you'd never know it was a lap steel. |
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Andy Greatrix
From:
Edmonton Alberta
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Posted 19 Mar 2009 9:40 pm
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| I love it. I would love to hear some surreal poetry recited softly and not overpowering the music, but saying the same thing. |
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