So, big things are afoot in my musical life!  My submission of "Wishes Fulfilled" yielded unexpectedly positive results, and I am flabbergasted (in a good way)!  The title turned out to be prophetic.  I'm not yet going to share on the Internet the name of the "interested party," whom I am now working with, but some of you already know.   Let's just call him "Gus."  Gus is one of my big musical influences (for many, many years), and he contacted me directly to establish a creative relationship.  I've spent the last week or so in a pleasant state of confusion.  Needless to say, I won't be posting my work with Gus here, but I'm sure I'll have plenty of unrelated stuff to continue to post.

Anyway, I dusted off a few pieces from last year to share with Gus.  One of those is an orchestral (well, very small orchestra, more like a big ensemble) thing called "Influenza."  I actually went through it and made adjustments to every single part, specifically with note velocity and duration.  I've learned a lot about working with Synful during the past year or so that I didn't know when I first did this piece.   Essentially, you can't shortcut anything if you want the instruments to sound right; you have to be entirely aware of the relative velocity and duration of each note.   It's painstaking to go through and examine every note, but I think it really helps.  I fixed "Influenza," and I'm liking it much more.

SO, here's another track that is not on the CD called "Influenza."  Click here to download the mp3.

And just because you're not getting enough rock from me lately, here's a picture of me playing drums, taken by my lovely wife, Christina: