RE: Putting myself out there. . .
April 15, 2019 at 5:12 pm
(This post was last modified: April 15, 2019 at 5:19 pm by Brian37.)
(April 15, 2019 at 11:39 am)bennyboy Wrote: Hi, guys. I've been talking about anxiety, fear of completion and so on in other threads; I think some of my antisocial or other negative behaviors are connected to deep insecurity and frustrations from not finishing tasks. My goal in this thread is to put some of my stuff "out there"-- to feel that whatever people think, at least I finished the process to the end by sharing things. I might have posted some of them before, I can't remember.
Anyway, here goes nothing. I hope at least some of it isn't too bad. Sorry about the giant windows, I don't know how to set their size.
Some heavy metal-ish early stuff:
I tried writing classical (it picks up in the last half):
Some dance music (the flute part was supposed to be vocals by a friend, but we never got around to it). This one can never be finished, because I lost the original files in a hard-drive meltdown.
Jazz. This one shows my weakness as a pianist, but I tried to get a bit of tenderness out of the melody.
All of them had parts I liked. But I am either a fan of quiet sneak to a loud release, slow build up. But if not that, an up and down sound. You talk of metal, but ABBA was full of quiet clobber you later, and other songs that were up and down. That is what classical music training gets you. And both Benny and Bjorn and Metallica all had.
That is what "Georgia Benjamin" you posted had in this thread. It was slow STYX quality, but everything you posted had the potential to be up and down like Queen.
I cant write music to save my life or play it. But I do know I get a very positive emotional response out of songs that either slowly comfort me, or take me on a roller coaster ride.
