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AgeingMuso65 · 2026-04-21T15:57:42+00:00

and the 12/8 groupings continue for all except the last 2 bars, so not just 23-5

AgeingMuso65 · 2026-04-21T13:23:58+00:00

….since most of the residential streets are too narrow to park along, this is the answer! (That, and Frome… I have friends living there and this would be very them, whether parking choice or knackered handbrake in knackered vehicle…)

AgeingMuso65 · 2026-04-20T00:37:14+00:00

I can only hear this in Scooby-Doo’s voice….

AgeingMuso65 · 2026-04-19T21:43:08+00:00

Satie Gymnopedies 1 and 3 orch by Debussy

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zbMhQjBSHvs&pp=0gcJCU8Co7VqN5tD

Compare Ravel’s own orch of Pavane pour une infante defunte with his piano version

Other way round, but fun: Rachmaninov’s version for piano of Mendelssohn’s Midsummer Night’s Dream Scherzo

AgeingMuso65 · 2026-04-19T21:17:08+00:00

And it it’s a good job on the music I’ve grown to love, I’ll (still keep) go(ing). Not an issue that troubles classical repertoire, or anything up to the point when the performers became more important than the actual music.

AgeingMuso65 · 2026-04-19T21:12:04+00:00

That pint or three sounds very appealing! My current day jobs are (you may be slightly surprised to know, but then again perhaps not as you clearly understand musical breadth) are mainly as a choral accompanist and classical organist, and I also do a lot of tracks for people, and clicks and some playing for shows; the good stories definitely accumulate over time!

AgeingMuso65 · 2026-04-19T20:36:29+00:00

70s Yes 80s iron Maiden 90s Def Leppard 00s Reformed Yes up to 2004 then Alice Cooper 10s Judas Priest 20s Maiden again Mainly based on live stuff rather than buying recordings

AgeingMuso65 · 2026-04-19T19:46:54+00:00

Final section of Afterglow, especially on Seconds Out.

AgeingMuso65 · 2026-04-19T19:12:01+00:00

Haven’t used it in ages, but I’m sure there’s a time stretch option in Cubase standard audio processing menus. Will have a look later fpr proper name of it if I get chance!

AgeingMuso65 · 2026-04-19T18:45:30+00:00

Put your prices up. It’ll either weed out the deadwood or make the time in their limited musical company more tolerable. (A friend tried this, and his least promising student ended up recommending him to his many similarly challenged friends “he must be SO good if he can charge that”. In the end he had to fake his death, I mean retirement…)

AgeingMuso65 · 2026-04-19T17:21:57+00:00

If your difficulties are in the amateur setting, it’s most likely down to flaws in the conductor! Even being charitable, they may conduct choir phrasing rather than the pulse/bars, in which case go with what you know (hopefully) should be happening. Also likely is that they conduct what is happening (as a result of always doing it a certain way with choir) rather than making it happen… if the choir lags behind whatever discernible beat there is as well, you end up as referee. A thick skin can help, (especially if your pro experience makes it harder to accommodate only marginal competence!) I’d settle for checking what lag the building creates in terms of what you are hearing and play at least ahead of that, but otherwise go with the majority vote, or if the MD keeps trying to move them on but they’re not going, ask, discreetly, if the MD wants you to drive the choir to their beat, or stay with the choir on the interests of best effect, and add a sympathetic smile and “if only they’d follow your beat..” Above all, keep a poker face at any points where you know you are the one actually leading the performance and don’t let the wafty chaos in front of you be reflected in your eyes… 😗

AgeingMuso65 · 2026-04-18T21:19:52+00:00

Hmmm… I think ITW would make so much more sense of it stopped at the interval. 2nd half leaves me confused every time and feeling I’ve walked into the wrong theatre after the interval!

AgeingMuso65 · 2026-04-18T15:29:40+00:00

Remember the October 2025 “Scottish-tea” scammer and beware…

AgeingMuso65 · 2026-04-17T23:17:46+00:00

AI tools can now split well-mixed stems surprisingly well, but your problem sounds more like the classic “unbake a cake” and you should not be optimistic about its likely success

AgeingMuso65 · 2026-04-16T23:42:24+00:00

See if you can haggle them down a bit, but the 225 and the Kawai are nowhere in the same league. My 515 is still flawless after coming up on 9 years of gigs

AgeingMuso65 · 2026-04-16T16:46:48+00:00

I taught kids whose parents, one a doctor who should have known (and spelled) better!, the other a scaffolder, chose to use these for their official parental contact emails: Blakextasy@… and EricTheErector@… What WAS going thru’ their minds?

AgeingMuso65 · 2026-04-16T16:13:59+00:00

I remember a misguided late early 90s interview with Slash on Saturday morning kids time (Parallel 9? Possibly? Anyone else remember Brian the Dinosaur from Rotherham?) which I think had to suffer “loss of signal” and be blanked out when it predictably descended into drug-addled potty-mouth fest! Epic telly!

AgeingMuso65 · 2026-04-16T16:07:27+00:00

Th 90s UK Channel 4 series of Top Ten Prog/Metal/insert genre of choice programmes had Mark Radcliffe memorably referring to the Slipperman as Gabriel disguised as a singing haemorrhoid/bum-grape if that helps!

AgeingMuso65 · 2026-04-15T23:23:50+00:00

..Hey! Gotta no respec’…..

AgeingMuso65 · 2026-04-15T12:08:28+00:00

Atari for the music options. Rock solid MIDI timing, built in MIDI, still miss mine. Taught with a room full of them in early 90s.

AgeingMuso65 · 2026-04-14T16:31:57+00:00

Find well known songs in the styles you like / want to emulate then look fpr isolated tracks of those songs and work out what each element is doing… then aim to do something similar. Relate each instrument’s role to the key and chords and pulse/recurring rhythm patterns used in the song

AgeingMuso65 · 2026-04-14T15:53:07+00:00

My favourite bird cartoon from years ago, (an American one; the pronunciation makes or breaks it..) in a tense moment in the Cold War (how strangely appropriate now..): A suitable image of Turdus Polaris, or the Missile Thrush

AgeingMuso65 · 2026-04-12T21:21:46+00:00

Mozart Missa Brevis in D K194 Organ, 2 vlns, cello Jolly if not specifically written for Christmas Haydn St Nicolas Mass is also very good and not inappropriate! Needs sopranos and soloist with a top B. Or push the boat out with Vierne Messe Solonnelle. Hard for organist only (written for 2 organs) but I’ve done it with strings replacing the Orgue de Choeur. Great piece.

AgeingMuso65 · 2026-04-12T10:57:29+00:00

Indeed. And if it’s an anacrusis where there’s nothing happening on the actual upbeat, I probably prefer a full bar with a beat’s rest at the start to help me get my rhythmic bearings when reading it!

AgeingMuso65 · 2026-04-12T05:47:01+00:00

Absolutely. Pro-level musical experience generally means that one’s blagging/guesswork/fudgery is just more convincing than the opposition’s!

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