Progressive Panic [10/8 time]

Here's a little tune i've been working with the last week. It's a progressive Fusion-ish tune in 10/8 and 7/8.

I think that it has a pretty interesting sound to it, a stoned-on-shrooms kinda sound. :toothygrin: nah, just kidding.

Oh well, feel free to criticize in what ever manner you'd like. :P

p.s The Score is awful and isn't really helpful. :P And if you try to open the midi in Finale it'll become messed up.

EDIT:

A rendered .mp3 (it isn't mixed very good, it's probably best to listen to the midi, despite it's worthless Baritone sax sound)

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Progressive Panic.mid

Sweet! So driving and tuneful at the same time! Very nice work.

Yeah, your score is pretty weird-looking! If it's in c minor, then D#s really need to be Ebs... stuff like that. But if you just put the notes in with a MIDI device, then you probably don't care about the score. BUT! This is a piece that could be fun to work on with live musicians (if they can get the crazy meters), so you might want to think about fixing the score.

Doesn't the software you are using have a pickup bar feature? The first note in the piece is a pick-up, but you have it in a measure of 1/8, which is highly uncommon.

I really like the part towards the end, with the funky chords and the organ part on the offbeats. You should expand this part and turn it into a funky bridge!

Nice work.

I have heard this one before :toothygrin:

Pity it is a midi, it would be much better with an Mp3, well well cannot get everything in life.

I like the slagverk ;)

Thanks for the tips oingo ^^

The 1/8 pickup measure was just lazyness from my part, I didn't bother putting out rests and stuff so I just made a 1/8 measure :P

And If I get my bands approval I will make a readable score ;)

Saiming.

http://h1.ripway.com/Franzman2/ProgressivePanic.mp3

;)

That sounds much better :D

You can actually hear the sax now :P

I have also heard some of this before, but didn't keep track of it.

Now it's awesome! I loved it completely!

whoa, sweeeeeet. panic really is the word for it, it feels like it is teetering on the edge of completely falling apart but manages to hold on. then when you get near the end there is a sound like a train coming (beep beep? honk honk? whatever...) and i was like OMG there's somebody on the tracks!! cos it's all so tension building and stressful. At the end when you get to that major chord i said "phew" outloud.

None of the above is meant to say anything bad about the piece, i actually really like it. nice job!!

That is an awesome picture I haven't really thought about. ^^ Thanks for that! :D It gives a whole new dimension to the piece :)

Cheers

Wow, that was so awesome! I pictured two gangs badmouthing each other and then meeting up to fight. 0.o The title was very well-picked. I also really liked the ending. I would suggest that you could increase the tension quickly, then suddenly release it all, then build up again to the ending to increase the suspense. It might be going against the title, though. o.o; Just a suggestion. It's great the way it is, though.

Nice work =]

Hmmm... I didn't think of this piece as being tense... I listened to it like it was a piece of progessive rock, a la ELP or Yes. It is mellow in its tunefulness, but always with driving rhythms. It sounds pretty laid back to me, actually! ;)

There's an idea of Steve Reich's that he got from eastern music - the idea of a 'super'-pulse, which is a faster than normal pulse, not accentuated by quarter notes, rather really fast moving, constant 8th notes. It's a pulse that is unusual by nature. But it lets music be in varying meters yet always keep its grounding. This was something that was behind his idea of phasing. It's a great way to keep a piece that has wacky time signatures grounded, like you always know where its going. I dunno where I was going with this...!

I like it, it has a very special feeling, kinda too confused in the beginning but makes sense later on. Panic is a good description yeah. :)

man 7/8 is a really great time signature, shame it's used so seldomly. But this piece - excellent. I'd love to see that performed.

I like this piece, and love the way you kept the driving rythm up till the end.

Your Introduction is very good, and I love the part where the piano sustains it note and the bass plays repeated notes.

Btw, you trumpet part is written an octave higher than it sounds!

Well done.

ALMOST SOUNDED LIKE THE CHARLEY BROWN THEME. In the beginning!

I firmly believe that more people would benefit by listening to this. :)

It'd work fine as a real song. However, watch filling out measures with held notes in odd time signatures... it makes it feel off.