Mozart duet

[BigMartin]

First go at recording my self playing a duet. Bit rough around the edges, but thought I'd put it up anyway. Mozart K487 No 2 on alto and tenor.

http://soundcloud.com/bigmartin/mozart-k487-no-2

 

[Taz]

Lovely. That makes a real change from the material I usually listen to and what a lot of fun you must have had doing it!

 

[Andrew Sanders]

Made me smile Martin, thanks mate I've had a shocking day. Bung your sop in the middle of your gob like Rasaan Roland Kirk and it would be complete. (note to myself: be more open to classical pieces)

 

[BigMartin]

Made me smile Martin, thanks mate I've had a shocking day. Bung your sop in the middle of your gob like Rasaan Roland Kirk and it would be complete. (note to myself: be more open to classical pieces)

Cheers. A longer-term plan is to try playing some quartets on tenor, alto , sop and nino. Bit more trouble , though 'cause you have to put the bari and alto parts a tone down or the tenor and sop parts a tone up (hope I got that the right way round).

 

[johnboy]

Excellent!!! :welldone:welldone:welldone

John;}

 

[rhysonsax]

Nice stuff.

Can I ask how you recorded it, both in terms of the equipment used and also the order of recording and how you kept the rhythm going and kept together ?

Rhys

 

[BigMartin]

Nice stuff.

Can I ask how you recorded it, both in terms of the equipment used and also the order of recording and how you kept the rhythm going and kept together ?

Rhys

Thanks.

Recorded with Audacity, using Zoom H2 as audio interface. Used Audacity to generate a click track first. Handy thing about Mozart is that you can get away with playing in strict tempo. If I wanted some rubato, I might record myself clapping the pulse first, or something like that. Then recorded the tenor part then the alto. If I can be bothered, I'll redo the tenor part some time , as some of the intonation is a bit ropey, especially on the low notes. Should be easier while listening to the alto. Added a touch of reverb and moved the tenor 60% left and alto 60% right. An odd thing with Audacity is that when you export to WAV, it insists on putting all the tracks in even if they're muted. So I had to delete the click track, export and then undelete. Maybe later versions of Audacity have fixed that, I don't know.

 

[saxplorer]

lovely job.

I'm fascinated how in the soundcloud visual representation you can see the structure of the piece so clearly.

 

[BigMartin]

lovely job.

Thanks.

I'm fascinated how in the soundcloud visual representation you can see the structure of the piece so clearly.

I noticed that, too. I can hear differences between the repeats but whatever is being measured there looks the same down to quite small details.

 

[BigMartin]

Number 1

Here's No 1 (be warned---it's a set of 12)

http://soundcloud.com/bigmartin/mozart-k487-no-1

 

[BigMartin]

Re: Number 1

The heading of my last post should of course be Number 1. Kev? Pretty please?

 

[kevgermany]

Re: Number 2

The heading of my last post should of course be Number 1. Kev? Pretty please?

Done. You should be able to do it if you edit the post, then click on advanced.

 

[BigMartin]

Re: Number 1

Done. You should be able to do it if you edit the post, then click on advanced.

Thanks. Hadn't spotted that.