Sometimes it helps to have an external source of ideas to get you started. I haven’t been doing much music lately (though that may be about to change), but yesterday my friend Dan Brown — no, not the author, a different Dan Brown — sent me a link to a new piece of his called “Sigh of Exasperation.” I liked the vibe and the stately pace, and I had a couple of ideas about things he might have done differently — so I redid it. I call my version “Dan’s Sigh”:
For comparison, you can listen to his piece on bandcamp: https://theorganizm.bandcamp.com/track/sigh-of-exasperation
It’s in the same key and has much the same groove. But I tend not to want to repeat a single chord progression clear through any piece, so I had to devise a few variations. I don’t usually work this quickly — this was all done within 24 hours. Maybe I should give myself lessons.
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