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Offline goldentone

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Silent Reverie
on: January 31, 2009, 08:59:11 AM
My first improv here on the forum. :)

Recorded on my Yamaha M302 with the Edirol R-09 HR.
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Re: Silent Reverie
Reply #1 on: February 01, 2009, 07:07:12 AM
Hi Goldy :)
I like melancholic soothing dreaming like this. Some cool seventh chords. I don't know if you noticed but at 3.32 there is one particular cute little chord I like, I put it in loop for a while 8)
 

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Re: Silent Reverie
Reply #2 on: February 02, 2009, 06:42:06 AM
Thanks for your response, Wolfi. :)  I listened to that chord.  I didn't know I had any seventh chords in it!   
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Re: Silent Reverie
Reply #3 on: February 04, 2009, 12:29:58 AM
Hi goldentone,

I just listened to your Reverie and enjoyed it. The reverie definitely captures scenes and reactions drifting through the mind, bringing changes in tone, dynamic, intensity, harmony, and mood.  I notice that you "keep the bass moving and changing" too, as the composers like to say.  At the very end, I liked how you changed the sense of tonality on that very last note--unexpected! 

Congratulations on your first improvisation.  Nice job!   
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Offline quantum

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Re: Silent Reverie
Reply #4 on: February 06, 2009, 07:21:20 AM
This is gorgeous.  Thanks  8)
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Re: Silent Reverie
Reply #5 on: February 06, 2009, 08:02:26 AM
Hi Rachfan,

Thanks for your kind words. :)  Yeah, I think I just made a last-second decision to "change" the ending.   

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Re: Silent Reverie
Reply #6 on: February 06, 2009, 08:05:29 AM
This is gorgeous.  Thanks  8)

Thanks, Quantum! 
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Re: Silent Reverie
Reply #7 on: March 13, 2009, 11:52:51 AM
Some really lush and fitting chords in this. Enjoyed listening!
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