Music Idea #36 - (no name yet)

https://www.broadjam.com/songs/johnminardi/music-idea-36

John A. Minardi

Jupiter by Gustav Holst.

Mix engineer, Jarrod Headley - North Park Studios - Colorado Springs, Colorado

Master engineer, Clint Wagoner

Thanks for listening,

John A. Minardi.....................................copy & paste link.

https://www.broadjam.com/songs/johnminardi/jupiter-by-gustuv-holst

Hello,

Just finished recording this piece using the Vienna Symphonic Library (stand-alone).  This has been a long time favorite of mine.  I started working on the recording process on my birthday, December 9th.  

Hope you enjoy listening.

John A. Minardi

https://www.broadjam.com/songs/johnminardi/an-der-schonen-blauen-donau-by-johann-strauss

An mp3 is also attached.

Hello Splendiforous,

Thank you so much for your kind words. I am very glad you enjoyed it.  Yes, it did take a long time, but I wanted to make sure that I did "justice" to this wonderful piece of music.

I have always enjoyed orchestral music even though I played in rock bands most of my life.  The Vienna Library has made it possible for me to compose my own music and to perform and record the orchestral pieces I have always loved. The recording process I use does take a long time but I am retired and have time to work on it.  I don't like jigsaw puzzles which some retired people like to work on, so I do this instead.

Thanks again,

John A. Minardi

Hi,

Just wanted to share this with you. The music starts on the 3rd song down at this website.

I started the process on Dec 9 of 2021 and finished the recording, mixing and mastering around March 2022.  Getting harder to do this with the tinnitus constantly ringing in my head.  Oh well; at 67, I'm just having fun with Vienna Instruments

https://www.broadjam.com/songs/johnminardi

Thanks,

John A. Minardi

Hello again,

Gayane Ballet Suite: Adagio by Aram Khachaturian recorded with the Vienna Symphonic Library, Stand Alone version.  A lot of use with the master filter with this recording.

https://www.broadjam.com/songs/johnminardi/gayanes-adagio-by-aram-khachaturian

or you can download the attached MP3.

Just for the fun of it.

Thanks for listening and Happy Holidays.

John A. Minardi

The Hogan's Heroes theme composed by Jerry Fielding.

Just for a little fun.

https://www.broadjam.com/songs/johnminardi/hogans-heroes-theme-song-by-jerry-fielding

Or download the MP3 attached.

Happy Holidays

Hello,

While studying the music for Also Sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss, I thought I found a mistake in the music.  Well, I found this pdf online and couldn't believe it!!!  A screen shot of it is attached.  Look at the Bassoon staff.

John Minardi

Hello Anand,

Thank you for your comments.  I greatly appreciate you taking the time to write.

I agree with you 100%.  I have only been to a few concerts in my life, but that is enough to know that sample libraries do not really come close to the sound a great group of incredibly talented musicians can produce.  I have read the music and recorded all the parts for Pictures At An Exhibition also, and while learning a lot about how these great composers wrote the music, I (as a rock drummer most of my life) can only come woefully close to the expression that a bunch of great musicians and their conductors can express.

Thank you again for the contact.

John...........................................Pictures At An Exhibition

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxoQmdkzoIY

Hello,

The Vienna Instruments Library is just wonderful.

Equipment used for this recording;

-The Vienna Instruments Library Stand Alone Software.

-Komplete Kontrol S88 Piano Keyboard.

-My Old HP Compaq running Windows XP and Samplitude Multitrack Recording Software.

Thanks for listening and hope all are well and enjoying recording with the Vienna Library.

John A. Minardi

https://www.broadjam.com/songs/johnminardi/new-world-symphony-4-allegro-con-fuoco-by-antonin-dvorak

Hello Everyone,

Hope all is well with all you music lovers.

File is Attached.

MP3 File is Attached.

John A. Minardi

Hello,

I recently finished the attached recording and was hoping to get some feedback on it.  It's getting harder to feel confident about the mix and mastering process because of my increasing tinnitus problem.  It's like trying to work in a room where there is a constant hissing sound mixed with a 4 Khz tone in the background.  I guess that's what I get for playing in loud rock bands for a good portion of my life.  A critique of the recording would be greatly appreciated.

-Recorded with "Samplitude Version 5.91 with Windows XP" and "Vienna Symphonic Library Stand Alone".

I started this part of the project on December 9, 2021.

Thank you,

John A. Minardi

Hi Fabio,

Thank you much for your comment.  I'm very glad you enjoyed it.  It was a lot of fun recording the piece and figuring out how to get the best out of the VSL Volume 1.

Take care,

John A. Minardi

Hello,

I recently finished an 11 month recording project using the Vienna Instruments Library VOL 1 stand alone.  I don't have a DAW and the recording was done on a computer using Windows XP and Samplitude Ver. 5.9.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxoQmdkzoIY

I put it up on YouTube under a fictitious name.  Hope everyone is doing well.

Take care,

John A. Minardi

Hi Jerry,

Thank you for the information you sent.  I read it all and was pretty amazed how complicated music composition can get.  I do sometimes wish I had chosen a music career.  In fact, my mom and dad wanted to send me to Julliard.  Growing up in New York, it would have been a great opportunity, but no regrets.  

I will be checking out your website about music composition.

Take care,

John A Minardi

Hello Macker,

Good to hear from you and thank you so much.  I'm glad you enjoyed the recording.  I will post it as you said pretty soon;  I think I just need a couple of days to clear my head of all those notes I had to read.

Take care,

John

Hello Macker,

I finally finished my project and wanted to send you the you tube link.  You helped me back in September with some advice.

Hope you're doing well.  Take care,

John A Minardi................my pseudo name for my first you tube is Johann Oppenheimer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxoQmdkzoIY

Hi Macker,

Thanks for the info about the Academy page.  I will be checking that out a little more closely.  Also will be looking for some more in depth books than what I have right now.

Take care,

John

Paolo,

Thank you for the help with this.  I had the thought that it was the transposing of those instruments but just couldn't be sure.  Now I have a little fixing up to do.

Thanks again,

John

Hello Macker,

I want to thank you for offer to take a look at this. I am going to attempt to attach two examples to this post but I have never done that before so I hope it works.  By the way, my wife knows a little bit about weapons design. She has been working for Lockheed Martin company for the past 40 years, although not directly in weapons but mostly in the space division.  She is thinking of retiring next year.  (We'll see about that; I'm trying to get her interested again in painting now before she retires so she won't be bored to death)!.

John

Hello Macker,

Thanks for the reply.

As I mentioned in my first post, I have had no formal training in music and if I saw something like what is in the picture you attached, it would really baffle me!  I have learned to play instruments by ear and I have only been reading music since about 2016.  I was a rock drummer most of my life but always loved the orchestra.  Music notation looked like someone dipped a chickens' feet in ink and let it walk around on the paper.  When I retired, I determined to understand what all that chicken scratch really was indicating. I realized the beauty of it and I'm still learning, which helps keep my mind from wasting away I guess. 

Thanks again for taking the time to share your info.

John A. Minardi

Hi Dominic,

Thank you for your reply. Yes, that is something I thought about also.  I have listened to two different recordings by two different orchestras but I can not hear the notes in question on either recording.  Very frustrating but I'm sure there is an answer to it.

John A. Minardi

Hello,

I am hoping someone can answer my question on orchestral notation. 

I am in the process of recording a piece from Pictures At An Exhibition using the VSL, and I am a little confused as to why some of the instruments in the notation are obviously playing a passage in unison but a few of the notes are flat for some of the instruments while others are natural or sharp.  Is this done to create dissonance or is it another reason?  I feel a little embarrassed asking this but I never had any formal music training so I'm sure it is my lack of knowledge.

When playing back what I recorded, it simply sounds awful.  I've made other recordings before where I saw notes so close to each other but they were within the same instrument family, like the French horns or the Clarinets.

https://www.broadjam.com/songs/johnminardi/raiders-march/Play

These notes in Pictures at an exhibition are spread out between some of the woodwinds and some of the brass.  

Sincerely (and frustrated), 

John A. Minardi

Hello,

I hope everyone is doing well.  Here is an adagio;

https://www.broadjam.com/songs/johnminardi/adagio-non-troppo-in-g-minor/Play

The piano is the Yamaha CFX.

Thanks for taking a listen,

John A. Minardi