Most such programs address several of the National Standards, including Standards 6 (listening to, analyzing, and describing music) and 7 (evaluating music and music performances).
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'Cause this Geek pack makes that really easy, and I'm definitely going for it.Music software and educational Web sites can enhance and reinforce music-theory concepts and ear-training skills at all levels. If you move fast, you might be able to beat me to a remix. Go ahead and get this one into your ears! Well, if it ain't in the tracks, it ain't gonna be in their ears either. But I have to say, the arrangement works and the "spirit of the thing" is completely intact - in the end "the spirit of the thing" is what matters to the listerner. The guitar performances are pure irrationality and slop.There are bad edits everywhere. As you will see, the sterile hand of perfectionism hasn't really tainted these circa 2004/2005 tracks. It is about cutting through the dense mass of sound with a sword and making room for exciting things to happen. Why oh why did you chain yourself to this unforgiving mammon of quantity?Įven though this song was from Book of Horizons, a marathon-esque album rife with Promethean shame, this Geek Pack is about decluttering arrangements and mixes. It can really clutter up a mix with a heavy feeling of mass, the exact opposite of conveying that open, glorious expansive quality you were shooting for. Overdubbing marathons notoriously overburden a production with a kind of dead-weighted energy. The changes in mic position, the psychological characters being played out within a section, the imperfections, the mistakes - everything that distinguishes an overdubbing 'section' into something alive and vital, as opposed to being an excercize of lifeless and robotic repetition. Extreme panning and volume spikes have been de-emphasized so that entirely new mixes can be built with these files.Īgain, everything is formatted so you can get in there and hear all the little performance characteristics. But that's just so things will be clean and uncomplicated for you. In the liner notes it is explained that some EQs as well as SOME panning and volume information has been maintained. Those "section" tracks act as a final unit, where a collective acoustic space is shared with the wider ensemble.
When you listen to the corresponding "section" track you simply hear how those combined individual tracks "should" sound in the end (they're called things like "section_violas", etc). When you have each track individually numbered (viola 1, viola 2, viola 3 etc) you know that these performances made up the ensemble sections. You'll find easy access into the blend of the different instruments, the "divisi" parts within sections, and all the insights to be derived from their "movements in space".Īmong the many tracks there are three types: Individual, Section, and Ensemble. You can also zoom out into the "section" tracks to hear how everything fits together, how sections have to make room for each other, and how decisions have been made for everything to speak in the way that is most musically satisfying.
With all these tracks at your disposal, you get to go as deeply as you want into the part writing. This time it's more about natural musical things like performance nuances and the overall arrangement rationale. In this third installment of Musica Practica I am decidedly not putting the emphasis on production process. Lately more and more good listeners with good memories have been reminding me that the Geek Pack idea offers a nice opportunity to "make good" on that ancient promise/threat. They ask because in the liner notes to that album, anyone who thought this music was "sampled" and not performed by musicians had been promised (threatened?) with me filling up their hard drive with billions of raw files.Ĭirca 2005 it wasn't really the most 'actionable' thing, and was a bit sardonic, but I've found that people took the meaning correctly. It's been a decade and a half now that people have been asking me for raw tracks for this and other Book of Horizons songs. But first let's just get the Geek Pack out there for the tail end of Bandcamp Friday.
Inspired by working on this Geek Pack, I DEFINITELY have a few new mixes of this song coming. It was your requests that brought this one here. Welcome to the third installment of Secret Chiefs 3 "Musica Practica"!
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