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The Sea & Brisa

Edited by Valdez - June 11 2025 at 22:27

Thanks SP. I agree more dynamics. A drop out of the drums somewhere . I get what you are saying. It runs a little long without a rest. Thanks. The beat needs some attention. I liked the music you posted.

Hopefully I can bump it up a notch or two as I work on it. Kalvin wants to re-do the end guitar solo. It will change.   
We may even trim it down to 5 minutes or so.

Edited by Valdez - June 12 2025 at 05:47

Hi,

As I sit here, listening
to something
that brings me up
wanting to think of something
...
it feels too quiet
...
very true
and
clean meditation
...
some things happen
some don't
...
the expression continues
not sure
if I should cry
or simply allow the flow
...maybe remember an old
...
flame
...
it's forgotten
too long ago
driven by
who knows what
...
leaving me
...
maybe us
wondering
what it is meant to do
...
meditation
for me
is not about meaning
never was
but the inner quiet
was always
a special moment in time
...
you didn't want it to end
...
ever
...


It felt good
simply flowing
the mind's eye
and thoughts
with no direction
...
for a while
...
until your vision
sees
another sight
another idea
we think
...
my mind
was never a song
...
it was a constant flow
that never stopped
and one day
will tell me
there is no more
...
but in the mean time
there is a feeling
that has no words
...
that can be appreciated
to no end
...
to no end
...
just let it flow
once
twice
a wee bit more
let it flow
...
let it flow
...
the heart watches
and tunes in
...
let it flow
let it flow
let it flow
...
again
...
again!

^ I told Valdez what I thought. Because he asked. Just like you are doing.

All my life I've listened to suggesions and advice. Some I've taken to heart, while others, not. It has most certainly been benefitial to me. It has filled up my toolbox, helped me see things differently and expanded my artistic vocabulary. I'm not asking for perfection. But this time like the last time, I felt that there was paid less attention to the percussive side of things - compared to the rest of the musical components. Whether my suggestion is taken into consideration or not, isn't really the point. If I wrote something that felt meaningful, I may have planted something that might, or may not be fruitful. If not this time, maybe the next. Or not at all. I see nothing wrong with that. Quite the contrary.

Edited by Saperlipopette! - June 12 2025 at 12:38

Saperlipopette! wrote: ^ I told Valdez what I thought. Because he asked. Just like you are doing. ...

Hi

I can never tell you, or anyone, how or why I respond to something or other. It happens or it doesn't. I think a lot of it is because I write off my dreams, which have a rather interesting detail to them ... if a moment gets stuck, the next night, like magic, it gets resolved, and it adds to the "story", if there was one, since I do not exactly consider them stories at all ... they just live on their own.

Changes, and suggestions here, are difficult for me, because it is nothing but an ability to be able to recall the inner "movie" and then write it, so what you write is what you saw, and there is no change, or thoughts needed to improve it or not. And, for me, honestly, it says a lot about how folks create something, since the "complete" visual that you get from the dream and its continuing life (hate calling it a story!!!), when they feel that they need this or that ... in my case, it already comes with all the necessary tools and details, one could say, thus making changes, ends up breaking up the continuity of the whole thing.

It was something that I helped a lot of actors with, and I call it the continuity, and it was better when they did it, and even if there was a mistake or something weird, the continuity of the whole thing, helped mask the detail that was not correct. And the surprise was, that after that exercise, a couple of times, the actors could find a way to smooth things out and ... not err again, during rehearsal or production. And, I knew it would work from my internal sight of dreams (read The Art of Dreaming), but the only thing I found to work it was with actors, and this was before I started writing all the time.

This is the part of "progressive music" that bothers me sometimes, when there are changes almost for the sake of changes, which fits in a dreaming sort of way, though within the dream, it happens naturally and is not forced, or as I call it a change for the sake of a change! But sometimes it works, and it might be that we get accustomed to it, as has been the case with a lot of the arts in the 20th century, that were so drastic, as to send your imagination for several spins ... and I love those moments!

Note: this has been a serious issue for me with a DAW, and adding something or other to what I created, but the issue here was not seeing it or not knowing what I had originally thought or heard ... the ability to hear the DAW and add to it at the same time, is something I never could figure out, and I have never come across someone that could help me with it ... but I have, saved, various pieces done on the Jupiter 8 VST (Arturia's) that are nice, but I know they need something I can not add yet, or if I ever will ... until I get some help in learning that part with a DAW ... a tool, that sometimes has too much, and does not exactly just do the very most basic detail of all, as far as I can tell! Someday ... someday ...

Edited by moshkito - June 12 2025 at 17:16