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-- Bossa The Woods --
One of my earliest. The rhythm of the back beat is pure "Band in a Box," which was one of the first programs I got, and since one of the |
Band in a Box "styles" was "Bossa Nova," I tried my hand at writing a bossa nova, though I'm really not a Brazilian. Based on what few |
bossa nova tunes I know, I typed in the chords in a notation like "G6 - Ami7 - Dsus4 - F#maj7b5 --- the guitar chords I used to read for my |
electrified baritone uke in dance band, back in high school, and kept tweaking them until I had a good progression played by Band-in-a-Box |
as a Bossa Nova. When that was done, I saved what I had as a MIDI file, opened it with Cakewalk, and wrote a melody for it, went |
through the automated parts correcting anything that was done stupidly by the Band-in-a-Box algorithm, (such as jumping up for the V chord |
and down for the IV because of the key you happen to be in; the basic flaws of automation.. It came out very well, but I wouldn't exactly |
call it an inspired composition; more an exercise. I did have to tell it what chords and write a melody, but the music didn't come screaming |
into my imagination as a coherent whole demanding to be written, as with the bulk of what I've done in recent times. I soon gave up on |
Band In A Box. It's a great way to write 400 songs in half a dozen styles that are not your own, and that isn't what I wanted to do. |
Key: Eb Time signature: 4/4 Tempo: 138 Length: 160 measures Time: 4 minutes, 41 seconds |
Instruments: Tenor Sax, Electric Bass, Rhodes Piano, and Trumpet |
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