@Guy said:
I had the pleasure of doing this time a demo for soprano sax and string orchestra(+harp). Again, as might been noticed, these demos are for the VSL download instruments.
After Rain
As always, your comments are appreciated. 😊
Thanks!
Guy
Hello Guy
You are asking for comments...
It's a nice and lovely piece. By the way you show the articulations of the soprano saxophone. Congratulations!
Nevertheless, I would try to improve two things a bit:
1. I believe I'm not wrong when I say that Windplayers rather make diminuendos with long notes than crescendos.
Maybe it is related to the respiration.
When I listen to your piece I notice a lot of crescendos with long notes but almost never diminuendos.
So as a Saxophone player I have a bit a bad feeling after 2 minutes with more or less always crescendos on longer notes.
Maybe these crescendos also bothers me a bit because they often are "increase the gain" crescendos and not those with more overtones, as I knowing them.
2. Sometimes I miss a bit the "breathing cycles" behind the phrases of music. Could be that you didn't take this into account until now.
The Sopranosax can take a lot of breath... as a normal cycle: 5-7s hhh > 5-7s > hhh of course there are 10s or 15s possible as well.
Some of the Wind players also have mastered "the endles playing" (didgeridoo)... but it sounds more natural, to stop the play after some seconds for a little hhh.[:P]
Guy: I hope you can take my comment the right way. Once I learned some important things from you (about "how to play the piano" in connection with samples).
So I hope that I can return two tips this way. [H]
Have a nice weekend
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