Classical

The demo songs in the classical style. Each is described below, with the features it uses; About Demos lists every demo.

• Swell: 16_bolero_swell.yml
• Patterns Only: 02_pachelbel.yml
• Voice Leading: 05_voice_leading.yml

Swell: 16_bolero_swell.yml

An original piece in three in the manner of Ravel's Bolero: one tune and one snare rhythm, nine scenes of one unbroken crescendo from soft to full force, climbing evenly in loudness, without one velocity changed in a pattern. Each scene's Swell starts where the one before ended, the first three scenes keep the same instruments so that only the loudness climbs, and in the last the timpani run through a Swell generator that accents every downbeat. Use velocity-sensitive instruments to hear it.

examples/learning/16_bolero_swell.yml · C major · 72 BPM · 3:00 · 9 scenes · 7 tracks

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Patterns Only: 02_pachelbel.yml

The opening of Pachelbel's Canon in D for three violins and a cello, using nothing but patterns and scenes, the way you might copy a score in. Because it's a canon, the violins share the same patterns, each a scene behind the one before.

examples/learning/02_pachelbel.yml · D major · 44 BPM · 1:19 · 7 scenes · 4 tracks

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Voice Leading: 05_voice_leading.yml

Block chords on the piano over a bass in D major, three progressions each played three ways, back to back: in root position, every chord jumping up from its root; inverted by hand with the chord editor's Inv. row; and through the Voice leading generator, which plays each chord in the inversion and octave nearest the chord before. The last scene keeps the root in the bass.

examples/learning/05_voice_leading.yml · D major · 96 BPM · 3:00 · 9 scenes · 2 tracks

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