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 INBACK'S
 TEAMING
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 USIC
Something which I appear to have at least a modicum of talent for is composing, and to a lesser extent, performing music. Traditionally a keyboard/piano player, for years I tried to branch out and play the bass guitar, and then later the electric guitar. However, my first "love", if you can call it that, since I've had a primarily hateful relationship with music, is the keyboard, and nothing can bring you back to your first love better than spending $2800 on a top-of-the-line version of said first love. So with that in mind, I present to you, some music that I've composed and played for your theoretical enjoyment.
I've split this up into two categories. The Doodles section includes little one-off recordings I've made. Not much time was spent perfecting the performances (as you'll notice), and they don't use any fancy multi-track sequencing or any of the other fancy stuff that my keyboard does, because I haven't figured out how to use it yet. It's just me, with the record button pressed, banging away randomly on the keys. You'll notice I've also not spent much time on the titles. On the other hand, the Finished Works section includes tracks which I have labored over and perfected over many many hours, until they represented the purest facsimile of my artistic vision as possible. This section is, of course, empty.
 OODLES
Morose Encounters
Musical Genre: Tangerine Dream Ripoff
Author's Notes: It's always exciting to find a new sound on the keyboard that does most of the hard work for you and lets you just sit there and make something vaguely reminiscent of music without any actual effort.
Amber Tide
Musical Genre: Cheesy Electronic Dance Crap
Author's Notes: This is the first thing I played when I unpacked the keyboard. In fact, it's really quite difficult not to have this be the first thing you play with this keyboard, the way they have all the voices set up.
ALS
Musical Genre: Pretentious New Age Noodling
Author's Notes: I did this on New Year's Eve after about five beers.
ALS II: Electric Boogaloo
Musical Genre: White Boy Funk
Author's Notes: I did this on New Year's Eve after about nine beers.
Doucheface
Musical Genre: Lounge Blues
Author's Notes: I used to play keyboard in a band. Every song I played sounded like this.
I Wanna Be John Williams
Musical Genre: John Williams Ripoff
Author's Notes: I took lessons for many years, but most of what I learned about music I learned from movie soundtracks written by either John Williams or James Horner. Since James Horner essentially only wrote one soundtrack and then just kept repeating it, I have to give Mr. Williams most of the credit.
Bunnies
Musical Genre: Andrew Blake Porn Soundtrack
Author's Notes: The title comes from the name of the keyboard sound that was used for the track, namely: Bunnies In Love.
Orchid
Musical Genre: House/Rave Crap
Author's Notes: I don't like it any more than you do, people.
Motherplucker
Musical Genre: Vangelis Ripoff
Author's Notes: I should point out that when I say "So-and-so Ripoff" I didn't go into it intending to sound like what I'm saying I'm ripping off, it's just that there are only so many types of music that can exist in this universe, and some of these tend to sound like some of the others. Why are you badgering me about this? I'm not on trial here!
The D Sharps
Musical Genre: Vaguely Oriental-Sounding Hypnosis
Author's Notes: Notice that this tune includes at least four or five different instruments going at once, and it's still just one sound bank on the keyboard. Great toy, this thing.
Rectal Burn
Musical Genre: Mozart Ripoff
Author's Notes: I don't listen to Mozart (or anything else, for that matter), but they tell me this is what he sounds like. Except he's dead and I'm not, so I win.
 INISHED
 ORKS
Yeah, real soon now.
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