calypso
FINALLY was able to square away time yesterday to start writing that Calypso tune, and I think I've got a melody that I like now. Everything I'd come up with so far was really trite and stupid sounding -- as my fellow composer, Jerod Tate, always said:
"There's a fine line between simple and simpleminded."
Harmonically and rhythmically, Calypso is actually not all that complex, and the style is so bastardized that it's difficult to isolate a "pure" style for that idiom. But I'm on a roll now and just have to come up with a bionic ensemble that sounds realistic -- it's very easy to make something sound "phony" by not paying attention to the natural limitations of your instrumentation. So even though this whole thing will be MIDI (well, except the guitar and bass...), I've got to crack the orchestration books and do my homework so that I can come up with realistic parts for my "musicians". I'll even think through what each percussionist's arm and leg is doing!
"There's a fine line between simple and simpleminded."
Harmonically and rhythmically, Calypso is actually not all that complex, and the style is so bastardized that it's difficult to isolate a "pure" style for that idiom. But I'm on a roll now and just have to come up with a bionic ensemble that sounds realistic -- it's very easy to make something sound "phony" by not paying attention to the natural limitations of your instrumentation. So even though this whole thing will be MIDI (well, except the guitar and bass...), I've got to crack the orchestration books and do my homework so that I can come up with realistic parts for my "musicians". I'll even think through what each percussionist's arm and leg is doing!
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