The Sunday Poem/Song in progress: The Road II
Once you know the shape of the passage, and just how rough the road,
You’d think that it would be easier, but it’s still so hard to go.
We always have to part at the doorway, as I put on my shoes;
You give me a jacket and that wistful smile, and say “Careful out there, silly goose.”
Maybe the issue is the things that I can see that are left behind;
There are parts of me you’re keeping close, and parts of me lost to time.
There are boxes full of our old aspirations, and that one there holds our youth,
There’s crazy music coming from that one — and that one used to have truth.
When there are bridges to cross that sway in the wind, and adventure at every turn,
Wild jungles full of mystery and so many new things to learn,
I always mention that you could come, but you just always shake your head:
“Too much to do here at home, someone has to make the bed…”
But do these shelves hold all of the meaning?
If the dust is blown off, can we fly with the sun?
Or do these these pages sit here, quiet,
until all of the sun setting is done?
I try to remember to bring back a gift, from all those foreign climes
But somehow most of them are dust, even if I get them home in time.
“I swear, this was gold, that was precious diamond, and this one here was fragrant wine…”
But you brush them aside with relief in your eyes, and choose instead to hold me tight.
You say you know the shape of the passage, and just how rough the road.
You act like it should be easy for you now, but it’s still so hard to let go.
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Longer lines and looser metrics. Good.
Happy New Year!
I was testing a new piece of software (Melodyne) and decided to try singing the SATB of this arrangement.
http://home.hiwaay.net/~cbullard/mp3/AveMariaChoral.mp3
Here’s to patience and better technology!
len
Wow, Melodyne looks really cool… and not compatible with my DAW. 🙁 Nice work on the arrangement!
Rats. It’s a good package and incredible for what one can do with it. I just bought a new machine today (finally, a terrabyte) and UPS did not deliver the MOTU as ordered. Frikkkin rotten brown…. I was sooo looking forward to getting this system running by Monday.
Thanks. It’s a technique experiment. I was curious about using the new tools for SATB harmonies. Comes out rather Beach Boys. 🙂
That’s my guitar arrangement, but a web midi for the strings and an SATB for my voices that I mashed together. The trick for the voices was to record the midi of the SATB parts and listen to the synth as I sang them. Then clean up in Melodyne. That makes it sound more choral because of the intonation mistakes, breaths etc., because I do those one pass – no punch. Otherwise, the tech way is to sing the melody, then copy the part into multiple tracks and rewrite the copies with Melodyne by sliding each note into the right pitch from the sheet music or midi. That creates a much tighter part but sonically very homegenous.