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Thursday, October 31, 2019

The Wrecking Crew

(Director Gil Baker)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=w9-FfwwXRDg

Hello to Indonesia, Romania, Hellas, Sweden, Austria, France, Ukraine, Germany, South Korea, Portugal, United States

Further editing of the song Πως θα Ηταν

More additions are described in the Monday 28 Ocrober 2019 post:

https://euroelectron.blogspot.com/2019/10/updates-to-song.html

Wednesday, October 30, 2019

A very useful trick on composing music

is possibly while writing or playing to think forward in time.

For example anticipating a chord and leading towards it.

For example preparing the 7th of what would become a seventh chord.

For example the chord sequence leading to the chord of (C major 3rd major 7th):
G
C7
ie
G bass D G B
C bass E G B
(B is prepared as it already exists in the G major chord)

Another example is:
Vocalise - Rachmaninov
From the very beginning chords gradually morph to what they become.

This principle may be attempted while writting down the song Πως Θα Ηταν - Public Domain. Gabriella suggested writing it down in a simplest possible way defining harmony and leaving arrangement for later on depending on whether it may be used as a song in children's play etc. She expressed admiration for it after listening live with Vicky on female vocals and Vicky's influence on much better selected keys or musical scales for both male and female part.

It will also be tried to think of 3 or four part harmony even while writting for piano, as if scoring strings or a choir. It seems best to think of a part or voice as an individual melody, a beautiful singing entity of its own. This can ally to bass too. Air, the French band think of bass as a beautiful carpet.

See also:

Bach Bass Rules - Bach, Niedt

Cascading 2 gentle slope high pass inductor resistor microphone filters

It happened by chance while singing the song Πως θα Ηταν - Public Domain in F minor key and playing with cable crocodile clips on the recent LRC addition. Capacitor had been removed out of curiosity.

When both filters are connected, one in parallel to the other any remaining bass heaviness to nail singing voice in high register disappear.

Signal path:

male voice singing at high register - Shure Unidyne III at 2-4 in - Pleiades (130Ω,40mH) - Pleiades (150Ω,11mH) - Western Electric 1H to 4H transformer - Sony TC-D5 Pro - Sennheiser HD580

Even an inexpensive German Dynamisches Mikrofon sounded nice with this setup.