Originally Posted by John Lawrence Schick
You prefer to put one note after another, more like the "God model. - Mike

More like one phrase after another Mike. The instrumental composer has more possibilities than the songwriter. I use dissonance freely and extraneous modulations. A simple jump to an unrelated chord can open up a new sector of possibilities.

John smile


Aaah...that makes sense when I think upon your ouvre! You do like modulations to unrelated keys, or keys with just a note or two in common! So your basic building block is the phrase? And the cluster of notes that belongs within the scale or chord that is working within that phrase. Very interesting.

Bu the way, I write a lot of instrumental music myself, but much is experimental, jazz, and modern classical, and though I have had far less overall success than you, I find it's a part of who I am that I can't let go of this practice. I have maybe fifty/sixty things up at Audioaparx but stopped submitting a few years back when I started doing demo work, but still receive a little check Paypal payment a couple times a year, I think it is. But I never stopped writing and finishing pieces, so my plan is to start uploading the more recent stuff. The self PR (writing blurbies) and creating submixes is SO damn time consuming, for me, though.

I have a whole series of pieces that like you, freely modulate at the scale and mode level.I find that as long as some musical element remains constant, scales/modes can practically be used serially.

Btw, saying "the damn thing" has become part of my everyday speaking/writing patterns. I attribute this to you, and feel like I must owe you some back royalties on that!

Mike

Last edited by Michael Zaneski; 08/06/19 06:17 PM.
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