Greg's Gazebo

[greg]

wrote another 4-bar attempt today starting at bar 34, 1:39........ the countless attempt, i'll probably end up erasing it....... maybe one day i'll actually progress since i haven't moved from that spot in 6 months. Kept trying to write more, except i just can't. I have to save the world, or at least escape somewhere else before i have to wake up at 4:30 tomorrow...... and the actual act of composing doesn't do anything for me.

The only way I was able to compose my other music was because I was bored and had no worries- summer break, just stayed in my room typing into Noteworthy and wrote music VERY quickly, and was able to come up with good ideas and pretty satisfying music. Nowadays I just struggle to think of anything interesting at all- besides 10-minute bursts where i just use all of my creative energy to pound on the piano or guitar, and after that i can't write any of my ideas down at all. As soon as they're made, they vanish. Can only rarely concentrate on what i'm doing......

I wonder if I can ever compose again when I'm not on vacation. One of the last things I want to do when I get home from school or work is use my mind to think up some music, when I'm too tired to think at all. (The last thing in the world i want to do is to talk to people). What I NEED is to waste my time going online and listening to music, or playing a video game. I hardly have any energy for anything intellectual like composing.

[greg]

last night, dashed off 2 more bars off the top of my head after the 4 i wrote earlier yesterday...... just looked at them again now. It "works" but I don't like it. 

[karlhenning]

Two whole measures last night? 

[greg]

Two whole measures last night? 

you think Handel was prolific, wait to you see my truckloads of music! 

[BachQ]

you think Handel was prolific, wait to you see my truckloads of music! 

When did we ever say that Handel was prolific? 

[greg]

When did we ever say that Handel was prolific? 

Telemann, sorry 

[BachQ]

Telemann, sorry 

If you ever screw up like that again .........

[greg]

If you ever screw up like that again .........

yeah, i know..... you'll lock me in a room, tied to a chair and have "Discovery" being blasted through a stereo at full volume repeatedly.

i'll have to be VEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRYYYYYYYYYYYyy careful......

[karlhenning]

Lock you in a room? We aren't savages here, you know . . . .

[BachQ]

yeah, i know..... you'll lock me in a room, tied to a chair and have "Discovery" being blasted through a stereo at full volume repeatedly.

i'll have to be VEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRYYYYYYYYYYYyy careful......

Yep.  Imagine your torture chair placed directly in front of these speakers, while blasting Saul's Discovery nonstop:




BTW, Click below for Saul's beloved composition modestly titled Discovery:

http://www.saulcomposer.com/Discovery%20Music.mp3

[greg]

BTW, Click below for Saul's beloved composition modestly titled Discovery:

http://www.saulcomposer.com/Discovery%20Music.mp3

Someone who knew nothing about him would probably think that "Discovery" was titled that way because it sounds like that was the first time he ever discovered music, by writing that piece.

[greg]

I think I'll be doing things totally different. I've been working on a piece for electric guitar (and whatever rock band instrumentation after that) since yesterday. And today I've come up with so much good stuff that it'd just be wrong not to turn it into anything. This is some really good stuff...... but the hard part is, when you stop and go to start writing from where you left off, often it's just impossible to get into it like you did the first time.

And the new piece I'm writing will be called "Night", op.13 (instead of the orchestral work i can't continue).

I'll try to record what I can before too long...... give me a week or two for a demo.

[greg]

but the hard part is, when you stop and go to start writing from where you left off, often it's just impossible to get into it like you did the first time.

I just picked up the guitar and played through what I wrote and honestly didn't feel like writing any more. And I just wrote it all a couple hours ago.
It's like there's something about finishing a piece of music that's very uninteresting..... so the real challenge for me, compositionally, is to get "into" an unfinished piece of music so I can finish it right!

[MN Dave]

Are you writing a rock opera?

[greg]

Are you writing a rock opera?

lol!
it's just going to be a rock instrumental......
but it's very different from what I've heard. You can hear my influences, but it's a pretty original sound.
The intro itself is something else  ......
i mess around in E minor and G minor, it sort of lurks in the darkness and then I hit this G# major that just comes from nowhere, then a C major, Lydianized and then ended on a fade out Cm..... it's just magic!
Then it goes into the rhythmic, melodic section with a Shostakovich-like tune, except I have in mind the atmosphere of something quite different....

but of course to really understand, i'd have to let you listen to it.

[MN Dave]

lol!
it's just going to be a rock instrumental......
but it's very different from what I've heard. You can hear my influences, but it's a pretty original sound.
The intro itself is something else  ......
i mess around in E minor and G minor, it sort of lurks in the darkness and then I hit this G# major that just comes from nowhere, then a C major, Lydianized and then ended on a fade out Cm..... it's just magic!
Then it goes into the rhythmic, melodic section with a Shostakovich-like tune, except I have in mind the atmosphere of something quite different....

but of course to really understand, i'd have to let you listen to it.

You need to write a rock opera about Ublooobedooga, or whatever-the-hell his name is...

Because I said so, that's why. 

[greg]

You need to write a rock opera about Ublooobedooga, or whatever-the-hell his name is...

Because I said so, that's why. 

I'm considering something like that. 
I did write a piece called "Blather Lather", another called "What the Zorgenoth?" but not a piece about Ubloobideega.....

[MN Dave]

I'm considering something like that. 
I did write a piece called "Blather Lather", another called "What the Zorgenoth?" but not a piece about Ubloobideega.....

Just remember to use plenty of midgets and donkeys. People looove midgets and donkeys.

[greg]

Just remember to use plenty of midgets and donkeys. People looove midgets and donkeys.

ha! Who do you think will stage it? 

[MN Dave]

ha! Who do you think will stage it? 

I don't know that but you should use the Cloverfield monster while you're at it.