*Music* anyone?
Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2018 10:21 pm
I couldn't find a forum for this basic musical scream for help as opposed to equipment or effects or techniques, so maybe a forum called *Music Theory, Sweat & Blood* could do the job?
Here goes the opener.
I'm 74 and working on learning my 4th song, Bright-Eyes. As usual nothing that I find on the net tickles my fancy the least bit so I'm working on my own backing track in Rosegarden. So far so good, done this exact same thing with the previous 3 songs too, it's also a great way to learn things, at times even too great. I've run into a bit of a snag, most existing midis I found do NOT include a plain-old chords track for strings or synth, like the ones in them on-line karaejoke mp3's. I've cannibalised some chords from tab sheets but something is still missing. The composer went to great lengths to create an exquisite poetic & haunting effect but I'm missing it completely. Maybe some chords are missing, are the wrong ones, or start-end in the wrong place. I never worked chords before in my life.
Some born musicians will take one look at the staves and bingo, others see with their ears, and there are techies who need voices 'files'. To improve my chances I'm attaching one of each, covering the first verse and chorus. Anyone who can straighten me out a bit will get a request to the bartender from me to say a mass or the next best thing for his soul.
Something else, I think I have discovered a new guitar 'effect', I think I've even outdone 'ole Gilmour. I'll post that after resolving this issue. I managed the effect in roundabout and difficult manual ways but it needs coders to incorporate it into a preset or whatever it is that 'stacks' are full of (will fully document).
the other 3 bombed either because of file extension or because of size
will remain up there for a day or two (i hope they work):
http://trixtar.org/temp-pub-buffer/bE-t ... -94bpm.mid
http://trixtar.org/temp-pub-buffer/bE-chordtest.mp3
http://trixtar.org/temp-pub-buffer/bE-chordtest.rg
Thank you
Here goes the opener.
I'm 74 and working on learning my 4th song, Bright-Eyes. As usual nothing that I find on the net tickles my fancy the least bit so I'm working on my own backing track in Rosegarden. So far so good, done this exact same thing with the previous 3 songs too, it's also a great way to learn things, at times even too great. I've run into a bit of a snag, most existing midis I found do NOT include a plain-old chords track for strings or synth, like the ones in them on-line karaejoke mp3's. I've cannibalised some chords from tab sheets but something is still missing. The composer went to great lengths to create an exquisite poetic & haunting effect but I'm missing it completely. Maybe some chords are missing, are the wrong ones, or start-end in the wrong place. I never worked chords before in my life.
Some born musicians will take one look at the staves and bingo, others see with their ears, and there are techies who need voices 'files'. To improve my chances I'm attaching one of each, covering the first verse and chorus. Anyone who can straighten me out a bit will get a request to the bartender from me to say a mass or the next best thing for his soul.
Something else, I think I have discovered a new guitar 'effect', I think I've even outdone 'ole Gilmour. I'll post that after resolving this issue. I managed the effect in roundabout and difficult manual ways but it needs coders to incorporate it into a preset or whatever it is that 'stacks' are full of (will fully document).
the other 3 bombed either because of file extension or because of size
will remain up there for a day or two (i hope they work):
http://trixtar.org/temp-pub-buffer/bE-t ... -94bpm.mid
http://trixtar.org/temp-pub-buffer/bE-chordtest.mp3
http://trixtar.org/temp-pub-buffer/bE-chordtest.rg
Thank you