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I put them in my yahoo briefcase if anyone's interested in listening.  They're in the New 
Stuff folder within the Music folder.  Here's the address:

http://f1.pg.briefcase.yahoo.com/mikedancy 

I'm too lazy to give them names- just demo 1 and demo 2.  They're both all emu (px7) 
recorded straight into my cd burner (going through mixer and eq first)

I've been taking piano lessons for six months now.  A few more years and maybe I'll be 
able to write using chords :p

Mike

Demo 1 is pretty organic. It sounds like a TV soundtrack of some sort... Has a certain "band" feeling... doesn't sound like coming from one piece of kit only. Criticisms: the piano is too "in yer face" for me.

Demo 2 sounds like early Depeche Mode. Again, i feel that the piano is too much all over the place (perhaps the piano lesson had made you to not notice that :) ).

Over all i like the structure of the songs. We are too used to 8 bar loops that evolve forever, and these sound like you could sing over them.

Jose

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: mike 
  To: xl7@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2005 12:42 PM
  Subject: [xl7] A couple of new tunes...



  I put them in my yahoo briefcase if anyone's interested in listening.  They're in the New 
  Stuff folder within the Music folder.  Here's the address:

  http://f1.pg.briefcase.yahoo.com/mikedancy 

  I'm too lazy to give them names- just demo 1 and demo 2.  They're both all emu (px7) 
  recorded straight into my cd burner (going through mixer and eq first)

  I've been taking piano lessons for six months now.  A few more years and maybe I'll be 
  able to write using chords :p

  Mike





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Thanks for the feedback!  I got the same response from my friends regarding demo 1 and 
the soundtrack feel.  One of my friends was thinking about putting a guitar track to it.  He 
also talked about lyrics.  I'm interested in how the dynamics would change.

I think I know what you're saying about the piano.  When I tried taking some of it out, the 
song seemed too light- like the synth stuff wasn't carrying enough weight on it's own.  I 
figured I'd go with it for now.  I'm sure I could do better with transitions between parts too.
I think I suffer from Musical Attention Deficit Disorder. After 4-8 measures, the music's 
got to do something different :p  

My preference is more band-oriented. That's what I was going after with demo 1.

Thanks again!!
Mike


--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, José Sáez <taliesin@t...> wrote:
> Demo 1 is pretty organic. It sounds like a TV soundtrack of some sort... Has a certain 
"band" feeling... doesn't sound like coming from one piece of kit only. Criticisms: the 
piano is too "in yer face" for me.
> 
> Demo 2 sounds like early Depeche Mode. Again, i feel that the piano is too much all 
over the place (perhaps the piano lesson had made you to not notice that :) ).
> 
> Over all i like the structure of the songs. We are too used to 8 bar loops that evolve 
forever, and these sound like you could sing over them.
> 
> Jose
> 
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: mike 
>   To: xl7@yahoogroups.com 
>   Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2005 12:42 PM
>   Subject: [xl7] A couple of new tunes...
> 
> 
> 
>   I put them in my yahoo briefcase if anyone's interested in listening.  They're in the New 
>   Stuff folder within the Music folder.  Here's the address:
> 
>   http://f1.pg.briefcase.yahoo.com/mikedancy 
> 
>   I'm too lazy to give them names- just demo 1 and demo 2.  They're both all emu (px7) 
>   recorded straight into my cd burner (going through mixer and eq first)
> 
>   I've been taking piano lessons for six months now.  A few more years and maybe I'll be 
>   able to write using chords :p
> 
>   Mike
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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