Well, that was neat
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solarbirdAs expected, I didn't really make 50 minutes. I'm technically not done and I plan on working on stuff more tonight, but I won't get 50 minutes of song arranged by then. I couldn't really do that even if I got everything I wrote in November arranged out.
...but I'd come kinda reasonably close.
16 Songs across 17 Pages
It's really 14 songs, though, not 16, since two of 'em are just variations on another. And the gods know they aren't all good. Maybe two or three of 'em are kinda good. But if you gave me three minutes per song, which is probably several degrees of silly but let me have my dreams, that gets me 42 minutes.
So that's neat by itself. But then this evening I was walking out of the Integrated Health building in Bothell when I walked by a couple of people playing music near the stairs at the top of the atrium. The building was mostly closed for the day; they were just hanging out and practicing. I scooched by, got down to the first landing, stopped, got out Popcorn, and started improvising along on top of whatever it was they were playing. We did that for a couple of minutes until they got done, and then the trumpet player called me over and we talked instrument-making for a while, and now they have my contact information and fee which they thought was perfectly reasonable, and now... maybe I've got a commission coming in.
That would be a pretty good way to end my first NaNoteWriMo. ^_^
...but I'd come kinda reasonably close.
16 Songs across 17 Pages
It's really 14 songs, though, not 16, since two of 'em are just variations on another. And the gods know they aren't all good. Maybe two or three of 'em are kinda good. But if you gave me three minutes per song, which is probably several degrees of silly but let me have my dreams, that gets me 42 minutes.
So that's neat by itself. But then this evening I was walking out of the Integrated Health building in Bothell when I walked by a couple of people playing music near the stairs at the top of the atrium. The building was mostly closed for the day; they were just hanging out and practicing. I scooched by, got down to the first landing, stopped, got out Popcorn, and started improvising along on top of whatever it was they were playing. We did that for a couple of minutes until they got done, and then the trumpet player called me over and we talked instrument-making for a while, and now they have my contact information and fee which they thought was perfectly reasonable, and now... maybe I've got a commission coming in.
That would be a pretty good way to end my first NaNoteWriMo. ^_^
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Date: 2007-12-01 07:15 am (UTC)The more you do something the easier and better it becomes.
Next years songs will be longer and better. We can hardly wait. :)
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Date: 2007-12-02 07:30 am (UTC)Yeah, but I have issues.
Next years songs will be longer and better. We can hardly wait. :)
Actually, there's this thing in February I'm gonna try, sooner.
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Date: 2007-12-01 08:07 am (UTC)Re: instrument making
Date: 2007-12-03 08:14 am (UTC)