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Etude Op​.​1 No. 4

from Old's Cool by Jim Hanks

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This is Etude in D minor by Franz Liszt, more formally known as Etude Op. 1 No. 4. If you search for this on youtube, you will mostly find a lot of 8-10 year old piano wunderkind playing at breakneck speed. Perhaps this appropriate as Liszt supposedly was only 14 when he composed it. But what if Liszt had come of age in 1960's Jamaica instead of 1830's Paris? Hmm, what then?

This etude mostly alternates between sections of arpeggiated harmony with more scalar passages focusing on diminished and melodic minor scales. It can be seen as two part harmony with basso continuo. My arrangement has kept this structure, just wrapping it all in a more laid back reggae feel. The two parts are EWI patches from Patchman, #8 "Recorder" for the higher voice and #19 "Cello" for the lower voice. However, both parts have a 5-octave range (D3 to F7) so these parts cannot be considered emulative in nature, going far beyond their namesakes' natural ranges.

(By the way, I had originally titled this track "Franz Marley" due to the strong reggae influence, but I dropped back to the normal title when I couldn't think of clever names for the other tracks. ;-) )

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from Old's Cool, released September 5, 2011
Sound design: Matt Traum
Track image: Renato Machado, www.sxc.hu/photo/268687

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I like many styles of music but most of my own productions tend towards jazz with electronic elements. I play the Akai EWI4000s electric wind instrument, ukuleles, guileles, NAF, whistle, recorders, harmonicas, and various software instruments on Windows and iOS. ... more

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