Background music for a fun father/daughter YouTube video editing collaboration/experiment (embedded here.) My daughter and I filmed and edited the movie, and I wrote the music after hearing some video-game music my daughter wanted me to emulate…
A simple 3-part "round" or canon with variations, showing my children how you can devise a melody that can stack on top of itself like offset puzzle pieces, which will then make its own harmony (with a nod to the master of rounds and fugues, J…
A simple 3-part "round" or canon with variations, showing my children how you can devise a melody that can stack on top of itself like offset puzzle pieces, which will then make its own harmony (with a nod to the master of rounds and fugues, J…
oh yeah, the earthquake was a bit strong, I was working sitting in front of my computer when some books fell down and I got scared but nothing bad happened, we are ok, this earthquake had its epicenter in my town!. Thanks for careing... by the way, everytime I hear "a Round & Bach Again" I think again that is just great!
Close your eyes, and come with me. It is a warm Autumn eve in the Black Forest. There are ancient folk tales about this magical wood... how late at night it comes to life with mischievious fairies and wood nymphs. Any mortal who hears the unusual…
shutting my eyes - i was back in brazil - the rainforest there is alive with many things - both fairy and non-fairy.
thanks for this beautiful piece of "forest" music!
Close your eyes, and come with me. It is a warm Autumn eve in the Black Forest. There are ancient folk tales about this magical wood... how late at night it comes to life with mischievious fairies and wood nymphs. Any mortal who hears the unusual…
I decided to tap into my latent '80s Depeche Mode subconscious, and this bouncy tune popped out! Ian Beardsley heard an earlier version of this and immediately detected Spanish flamenco hidden in the techno dance chords. I opened up the stage…
Close your eyes, and come with me. It is a warm Autumn eve in the Black Forest. There are ancient folk tales about this magical wood... how late at night it comes to life with mischievious fairies and wood nymphs. Any mortal who hears the unusual…
Close your eyes, and come with me. It is a warm Autumn eve in the Black Forest. There are ancient folk tales about this magical wood... how late at night it comes to life with mischievious fairies and wood nymphs. Any mortal who hears the unusual…
Close your eyes, and come with me. It is a warm Autumn eve in the Black Forest. There are ancient folk tales about this magical wood... how late at night it comes to life with mischievious fairies and wood nymphs. Any mortal who hears the unusual…
Close your eyes, and come with me. It is a warm Autumn eve in the Black Forest. There are ancient folk tales about this magical wood... how late at night it comes to life with mischievious fairies and wood nymphs. Any mortal who hears the unusual…
This original melody idea was jotted down in October 2003 in Harmony Assistant, and I had written it thinking that someday I'd make it a real song with lyrics. While playing the tune on the computer, my daughter came in and said she liked it…
hey drakonis! about your comment on the big snake (lol) yeah I put 2 different tempos mixed up... it was fun. synthezised voices here made the song sound very bounding, beautiful!
This original melody idea was jotted down in October 2003 in Harmony Assistant, and I had written it thinking that someday I'd make it a real song with lyrics. While playing the tune on the computer, my daughter came in and said she liked it…
Thanks for this fascinating tune and for your production comments on my trumpet ensemble piece.
I must admit that that was a document of the writing more so than of decent performance or engineering. Thanks again for the good observations.
This original melody idea was jotted down in October 2003 in Harmony Assistant, and I had written it thinking that someday I'd make it a real song with lyrics. While playing the tune on the computer, my daughter came in and said she liked it…
This original melody idea was jotted down in October 2003 in Harmony Assistant, and I had written it thinking that someday I'd make it a real song with lyrics. While playing the tune on the computer, my daughter came in and said she liked it…
Imagine a Mexican quintette playing a fast waltz. There are 3 melodies played in 3/4 time, in a sort of non-standard ABCABC format. The title is a photographic/geographic/melodic play on words. There is a merging of European waltz and Mexican…
While my wife and I were travelling back down the coast of California (near Big Sur) from a vacation around New Years, we stopped at a turnout over a cliff, and took a bunch of video of at least 15 California Condors, flying and hanging out on…
This piece is my original almost-fugue-sounding arrangement of my favorite Ukranian “Christmas Carol”, Carol of the Bells, as if J.S. Bach had written it. Ingredients: Warmth, depth, complexity, eternal romance. Dedicated to my Belle. This was…
very well performed and composed... beautiful, I really like your works, very good quality. Also I wanna thank you for your encouraging comments, thank you again.
A simple 3-part "round" or canon with variations, showing my children how you can devise a melody that can stack on top of itself like offset puzzle pieces, which will then make its own harmony (with a nod to the master of rounds and fugues, J…
Thanks for the comment (re: muffled & treble boost) - I definitely do not know what I am doing with recording yet :) The piano in this piece definitely sparkles! Lovely playing and composition.
Imagine a Mexican quintette playing a fast waltz. There are 3 melodies played in 3/4 time, in a sort of non-standard ABCABC format. The title is a photographic/geographic/melodic play on words. There is a merging of European waltz and Mexican…
Imagine a Mexican quintette playing a fast waltz. There are 3 melodies played in 3/4 time, in a sort of non-standard ABCABC format. The title is a photographic/geographic/melodic play on words. There is a merging of European waltz and Mexican…
The long sustain on the piano and the Moorish progressions do give this a "warm desert" feel, very contemplative and soothing. The flute accompaniment was a nice touch... I'd love to meet the flute player, she has quite a set of lungs (smirk)... those are some long un-interrupted passages of notes... that, plus the quiet beauty of this kept me holding my breath. Nice!
ttfn,
Drakonis
Wow, what a surprise and honor! Probably would have been a lot easier if I'd shipped you the chords/tabs/sheet music :-) This is really an impressive bit of work, reconstructing a song, with a very different feel, and have that new piece stand so nicely on its own. Well played and sung!
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Drakonis
A folky ballad about the trials and tribulations that happen during home recording, in this particular case using a Boss microBR.
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Let me tell you all a story, most of it is true,
a strange and twisted…
Bwahaha... sweet silliness. I enjoyed the poke-fun-at-thyself style humor, and a catchy song to boot. Thanks for listening to my stuff too (just wait until you stumble upon my "Grapefruit Song", speaking of offbeat humor.)
ttfn, Drakonis.
I'm a complete idiot when it comes to all things midi related. Recently got myself a midi keyboard though and came up with this short piece just messing with sounds in Proteus. Really looking forward to the possibilities of combining this sort…
Uh oh... I have a long way to go just to get up to "IDIOT" level then! This is a great little interlude, well mixed and cool voice ideas. It is a pretty sparkly spot of space you found.
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Drakonis
This song came about a couple years ago as an acoustic piece, recorded without being fully written. It went untouched and almost forgotten until we started piecing the album together and were looking for a good driving tune. I think we greatly…
Ahhh... another sweet variation on this timeless classic (I happen to love this tune, and seek out wildly diverging adaptations)... very nice twist on the initial bassline, and instrumentation and drums were fun. Well done.
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Drakonis
This song started off just on bass and was saved in demo form as "bass led", as in led by the bass. When I needed titles for all the album tracks, I ended up taking "led" and making it "LED"--light-emitting diode.
I'm so easily led by geeky wordplay. Still, we arsenic-kering at the title. Really cool dark bass line, which rises above the drums and makes this intoxicatingly moody. Nice.
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Drakonis
My first Christmas original just off the presses with that cowboy, spaghetti western style.
Paul: Why don't you try Jingle Bells or something
Geas: Oh God,No, I hate the classics... that sucks......
Paul: Yea that does suck. Try emmmm, Oh Holy…
What great holiday ad-Ventures she is having! This is very nicely done (although I would BOOST the talking at the beginning to hear the banter better.) The cool surf music and quirky lyrics got me smirking all day now!
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Drakonis
Delicious dark ambient. The repeated "slithering" sound effects are a little loud in the mix... I would back them off a bit, and maybe have them slowly come and go to add interest. But the slowly morphing chords are hypnotizing... takes me off to Babylon-5-land :-) The ending was unusual, which is probably a good thing, and although it was on the verge of humorous, I can always use a smile. Good stuff!
ttfn,
Drakonis
I spent the day skrewing around with this Roumanian Minor scale again. I am really testing layered drums on this one, Toms mostly.
There's a lot happening. Acoustic, Strat, Bass, 4 Juno tracks, and all kinds of percussion.
Only a two chord change…
Delicious and educational... and well scored too! I like your choice to close the bar with just the bell, really classy... maybe it is the percussion, but this has a vague middle-eastern vibe, like a Babylonian camel caravan.
Another song in the works that I have never been happy with. Now that Mr. Tolar has me feeding raw meat to the Ibanez, this is the result. So, it's either a rocker, or I'm off my rocker!
Lyrics:
It was yesterday
when she said
she's leaving…
An unusual hopscotch path... it is dangerous to score in a sparse way like this, there is not much room for error. But you did well, keeping my interest throughout, even though this is a bit angular for my ears :-) Well done!
The memories we shared in the city, sparkle against the black alley street as they tumble toward the storm drain and are washed away forever.
Or at least, that's the imagery in MY mind from this wistful thoughtful music. :-)
ttfn,
Drakonis
I feel the warm sunset on my face, the cool salty breeze makes me zip up my jacket as I stroll along the beach, slowly parting the sandpipers ahead of me on the crimson path along the shore. This is great... I love the occasional "major surprise" chord in there.
ttfn,
Drakonis
While my wife and I were travelling back down the coast of California (near Big Sur) from a vacation around New Years, we stopped at a turnout over a cliff, and took a bunch of video of at least 15 California Condors, flying and hanging out on…
title is self-explanatory, past tense however.
i really wanted a song that had the flow, emotional intensity and unpredictability of an ocean. perhaps that's a bit cliche.
done over the period of two months in a little dark room with an…
Trip hop track, may be listened as a soundtrack...
As usual we tried to create a deep atmosphere with loads of melodies to give the listener a little journey full of new findings every time :)
Anyway this time the BPM is a bit quicker : 87…
Pretty melodic harmonies, juxtaposed with a relentless beat and a little grit in the mix to create an air of tension. It is the beautiful girl who will not tell you certain disturbing things about her past :-)
Comments on drakonis's stuff
Moving and atmospheric piece, perfect company for the video but stands well on it's own. Very nice!
Wonderful, contrapuntal!
oh yeah, the earthquake was a bit strong, I was working sitting in front of my computer when some books fell down and I got scared but nothing bad happened, we are ok, this earthquake had its epicenter in my town!. Thanks for careing... by the way, everytime I hear "a Round & Bach Again" I think again that is just great!
shutting my eyes - i was back in brazil - the rainforest there is alive with many things - both fairy and non-fairy. thanks for this beautiful piece of "forest" music!
Eduard, keep saying such a beautiful words to music, I love the way you describe a piece of music, its fantastic!
You have another gerneration who love this Eduard, Jazzy is standing on the chair in the kitchen swinging it. Bethan
drakonis, you are a great musician and a poet!!! thank you
Bravissssimo! very well done maestro. it makes me think of a rimsky korsakov work
Oh yes, this is beautiful!
And now it is a warm Autumn eve in my kitchen. Bewitching music!
hey drakonis! about your comment on the big snake (lol) yeah I put 2 different tempos mixed up... it was fun. synthezised voices here made the song sound very bounding, beautiful!
Thanks for this fascinating tune and for your production comments on my trumpet ensemble piece. I must admit that that was a document of the writing more so than of decent performance or engineering. Thanks again for the good observations.
Compelling in a breakfast fruit kind of way!
good done Eduard!
Im getting inspired...
nice tempo!
very well performed and composed... beautiful, I really like your works, very good quality. Also I wanna thank you for your encouraging comments, thank you again.
Thanks for the comment (re: muffled & treble boost) - I definitely do not know what I am doing with recording yet :) The piano in this piece definitely sparkles! Lovely playing and composition.
The trumpet on this is great - it flows, doesn't sound forced at all
Absolute class.
Comments made by drakonis
Mesmerizing arpeggios... intriguing to hear the melody rise out of it all.
The long sustain on the piano and the Moorish progressions do give this a "warm desert" feel, very contemplative and soothing. The flute accompaniment was a nice touch... I'd love to meet the flute player, she has quite a set of lungs (smirk)... those are some long un-interrupted passages of notes... that, plus the quiet beauty of this kept me holding my breath. Nice! ttfn, Drakonis
Wow, what a surprise and honor! Probably would have been a lot easier if I'd shipped you the chords/tabs/sheet music :-) This is really an impressive bit of work, reconstructing a song, with a very different feel, and have that new piece stand so nicely on its own. Well played and sung! ttfn, Drakonis
Bwahaha... sweet silliness. I enjoyed the poke-fun-at-thyself style humor, and a catchy song to boot. Thanks for listening to my stuff too (just wait until you stumble upon my "Grapefruit Song", speaking of offbeat humor.) ttfn, Drakonis.
Uh oh... I have a long way to go just to get up to "IDIOT" level then! This is a great little interlude, well mixed and cool voice ideas. It is a pretty sparkly spot of space you found. ttfn, Drakonis
RF, great dark chasm you open up here and pour molten guitar and singing into. I can feel the ache. ttfn, Drakonis
Ahhh... another sweet variation on this timeless classic (I happen to love this tune, and seek out wildly diverging adaptations)... very nice twist on the initial bassline, and instrumentation and drums were fun. Well done. ttfn, Drakonis
I'm so easily led by geeky wordplay. Still, we arsenic-kering at the title. Really cool dark bass line, which rises above the drums and makes this intoxicatingly moody. Nice. ttfn, Drakonis
What great holiday ad-Ventures she is having! This is very nicely done (although I would BOOST the talking at the beginning to hear the banter better.) The cool surf music and quirky lyrics got me smirking all day now! ttfn, Drakonis
Delicious dark ambient. The repeated "slithering" sound effects are a little loud in the mix... I would back them off a bit, and maybe have them slowly come and go to add interest. But the slowly morphing chords are hypnotizing... takes me off to Babylon-5-land :-) The ending was unusual, which is probably a good thing, and although it was on the verge of humorous, I can always use a smile. Good stuff! ttfn, Drakonis
Delicious and educational... and well scored too! I like your choice to close the bar with just the bell, really classy... maybe it is the percussion, but this has a vague middle-eastern vibe, like a Babylonian camel caravan.
ouch. Great raw music, with a powerful message sent to the heart of this other protective dad. :-) I liked your use of the guitar as the doorbell.
An unusual hopscotch path... it is dangerous to score in a sparse way like this, there is not much room for error. But you did well, keeping my interest throughout, even though this is a bit angular for my ears :-) Well done!
The memories we shared in the city, sparkle against the black alley street as they tumble toward the storm drain and are washed away forever. Or at least, that's the imagery in MY mind from this wistful thoughtful music. :-) ttfn, Drakonis
I feel the warm sunset on my face, the cool salty breeze makes me zip up my jacket as I stroll along the beach, slowly parting the sandpipers ahead of me on the crimson path along the shore. This is great... I love the occasional "major surprise" chord in there. ttfn, Drakonis
FYI - I just updated the accompanying video with this music, much better edits, much more information in the video, etc. Hope you enjoy it!
wild headphone pan-osity... a lament for what is lost, but what won't quite leave the mind. Introspective trance. Nice.
Brava for a song for babushka. This has a warmth and beauty. A sweet tribute, wonderfully sung and played.
Pretty melodic harmonies, juxtaposed with a relentless beat and a little grit in the mix to create an air of tension. It is the beautiful girl who will not tell you certain disturbing things about her past :-)
Very calming... the drone plus pan pipe gives this sort of a New Age vibe. Nice heartwarming melody. Best wishes to Lynda and friends.