Play along with the entire “Music for Poochy Patrol” album with backing tracks made from the original tracks and charts for C, B-flat, E-flat, F, and bass clef instruments.
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Tag: Compositions
“After Disobedience”: Remastered and Available Everywhere
The formerly Bandcamp exclusive single “After Disobedience” is exclusive no more! It’s now streaming and available for purchase on almost all digital music services (sorry qobuz listeners). I’ve also added the much prettier new master to the original album on Bandcamp, just to not leave out the hip folks.
Check it out, maybe follow along with the score, and thanks for listening.
Play Along with Music to Squeak By
You can now play along with “Music to Squeak By” for free! This Bandcamp-exclusive album includes backing tracks made from the original recordings along with pdf leadsheets for concert, B-flat, E-flat, and bass clef instruments.
Download it today for whatever price you choose.
Play along with Music for Chasing Squirrels
For a limited time, you can play along with every song on “Music for Chasing Squirrels” for the low, low price of nothing. This Bandcamp-exclusive album includes backing tracks and pdf leadsheets for concert, B-flat, E-flat, and bass clef instruments.
Download it today for free or whatever price you choose.
New Release: After Disobedience (Single)
This is an odd one…
An instrumental musing on the affect of mediation on rules.
This piece is divided into 5 major sections:
Structure (0:00)
The piece introduces its harmonic structure, first with a drone, then adding a synth pattern (0:15), and finally add chords on electric piano (0:31).
Stumbling (0:46)
The guitar enters, trying but failing to play the pattern. The electric piano responds to failure by skipping chords in an attempt to remain consonant.
Testing Edges (1:18)
The guitar attempts to solo on a very fast and difficult series of chords, failing yet again. The electric piano now highlights the guitar’s mistakes by shifting chords by a half step, increasing dissonance.
Breaking Free (1:53)
The guitar now solos on a ten-tone scale, avoiding only the most “out” dissonances. The electric piano doggedly plays along with the synth’s pattern, abandoning any interaction with the guitar.
New Consonance (2:21 to the end)
The electric piano shifts to a series of chords designed to allow for a (relatively) high degree of consonance between the pattern and any note on the guitar. The guitar now solos freely until the end of the piece.
It’s worth mentioning that the “Stumbling” section nearly broke me. I wrote it to be misplayed, avoided practicing it, and set the music on a stand several feet away, all in the hope of increasing errors. It worked. And I got so frustrated at my playing, even though it was wrong when wrong was intentional, that I had to take a break and come back to it another day.
The Bandcamp download includes backing tracks and a leadsheet should you wish to annoy yourself playing wrong rightly. Or practice and play right wrongly.
Also, the title is because I sketched out the piece after watching the movie “Disobedience”.