T Tarpley in Sülm, Germany
GREETING: Hello everyone and Happy New Year.. 2024 and all that it may have to offer. Resolution.. Don’t let corporate crooks fool you. Beware of the fear tactics. There’s one race and one race only… if you are “Human”, you already know this. And off we go.
The photo.. I’m taking you to the beginning, back when music caught up with me. Prior to this photo being taken I had been a college student for a year and at this time, in the Air Force for just over a year.. That makes me a bit over 21 years old here outside my house in Sülm, slightly south and west near the Luxembourg boarder, Germany. I had just started playing drums again after crushing my brain with schooling and training. During the time of this picture I was a bit over a year in a four year contract with the United States Air Force. It was at this time, in the near the middle of my contract that I discovered what was missing in my life. The decision was already made that once I completed my assignment I was going back to school to study music. Certainly not a big thrill for my parents and some of my friends had a puzzled look as if to say.. and then what? Any way, so it went and here I am deep into this journey of learning and constantly refining my skills in the language of music.. by the way I have quite a few miles into this journey so.. tis the way it should be for me and the way it will always be for me.
LIKUID EKLEKTIK-NO LIMITS:2020: In the last episode we left off with songs 7 and 8. This takes us to songs 9 and 10.. the last two on the list…sahara frolic and tree tops. >1. move me
>2. what have we done now
>3. Tomy
>4. my kind of day
>5. from this point forward
>6. you and me
>7. groove instinct
>8. the beauty
>9. sahara frolic
>10. tree tops
09. sahara frolic.. playing with modes or scales is one of the components that gives a song a particular face and character. In this song, the Egyptian scale (The Egyptian scale is a 5-note scale, a type of pentatonic [Penta = 5] scale that’s also known as the suspended pentatonic scale) is really only present during the guitar solo. The individual parts during the refrain are relatively simple. This represents the Sahara Desert when it is seemingly tame, sand grains in waves. But then during the time of winds and sand storms, the desert appears to be coming apart.. It can’t though, it’s still bound by the seemingly simple fact that it’s the desert and the desert is just turning over. The guitar solo represents the Oasis that can be found within the expanse of the Sahara. 10. tree tops.. This came to me while on tour.. one of many.. Just gazing out of the bus window at the landscape of the trees, the ground, the clouds in the sky and all of sudden it seemed that the tree tops had melody. That melody was tied to solid ground and the tree tops seemed to dance underneath the clouds.. and although the melody and rhythm that it rides on in the song does not correlate or translate exactly to the scape as I saw it, it does give me the feel of that joint venture of a solid base and dancing melody such as the tree tops.
IN CLOSING: Okay.. that’s all of the songs and the inspiration, for the most part, behind them. I’m working on putting a brief sample of a couple of songs from the album for the next issue. I’m pretty sure that will happen.
A short mention concerning what’s called “third party plug-ins” for recording programs like the one I have.. As I mentioned in an earlier episode, these programs are very powerful on their own and don’t really need any outside help. But as technology would have it, their are add-ons galore that even in my limited experience, work wonders. The issue I had was a build up in the low-mid frequency that I managed to clear up, for the most part anyway, by going through all the songs and adjusting my EQ/equalization on all of the instruments and on my main output as well. Still it needed some more clarity and I found an AI assisted third party plug-in that is working very well. I’m on the final stretch of changes with song number 7 and I should be able to completely go through all the songs by this weekend.. if I keep up at the rate I’m going. We shall know soon.
Well.. this is the end of yet another progress report and I bid you all much love and success in this coming year. Who knows.. the aliens might just show up. Take good care all.
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