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Thank you

Hyperventilate piano? Ah, you listened to the first one? Yeah, that was somewhat subconsciously inspired by the tune

Its a rough idea Ive had kicking about for a while .. That one, and similar tunes Ive worked on (that im really pleased with) usually come out really quick.. Songs usually either come together really fast (at least feeling that the melody works, and that I have something here), or I struggle for ages and eventually give up. Hehe

The problem I have is that I go through these periods of huge creativity, and then sort of forget them.. Hidding in my file structure with names like "Song_34_test-mix2".. And they never feel finished to the point that I really want to share them, but I now just felt that those three songs needed to be uploaded - sort of to make myself listen to them - more than anything. And maybe to motivate me to finish them ..

With that first one I really need to something about the drums .. I'm not a drummer, but I feel Ive gotten somewhat more experienced since I mucked that together, so I think I need to try it again

But so yeah, I really appreciate you listening to it

Its all made in Garageband, if you can believe it. I love that software.. so easy and it doesnt get in the way of creativity. I used Cubase back when I used a pc, but when I got exposed to the iMac at filmschool; I changed my ways and bought a mac.. AND discovered a lovely bit of kit called Garageband

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I'll elaborate more on the gear I used - morgan les paul, epiphone es-335, m-audio midi keyboard, m-audio fast track pro usb soundcard, garageband and a 24" iMac

I'd be most grateful

Curse your burden of technological deficiency sir, I feel your pain!

Noodling and doodling with music is fun If you get the chance I would love to hear what you think

I choose the synth sir!

I have actually got a song with something along the lines of the riff you mentioned .. although I wouldnt exactely call the song prog.. its a little funny idea I worked on in may last year.

Hmm .. cant qute get the embed thing to work. But its the third song down here -> http://mariusfinnstun.blogspot.com/

The blog is mainly written in norwegian so just ignore it and I promise your brains wont hurt too badly.

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Forgot to say; please dont take the music too seriously. I just play with genres and little themes.. dont judge

*seconds ich_bin_besser*

Norway wants stickers too!

Haha, thank you Pedro!

Boswell: Really? I wanted to think it was somehow more exotic, maybe french .. and had little lines over the e, and whatnot. Its just rapport eh? There goes all the glamour of this forum...

And I'm not above taking credit for ABBA. Me thinks the swedes get enough cred for IKEA and their cars.

Rogerg and Mouse: Thank you

DaveJD: Aren't they swiss? There is a norwegian deathmetal band called Frost though.. or at least I thought there was, but my wiki doesnt back me up.

Gav: My pleasure! Would sir like that on a bass synth or a bass guitar?

Gr8gonzo: A fellow fan? Surely not.. Span was my alltime favorite band! And Jarle's voice is just amazing. Norways finest me thinks. How did you come across them? I thought they never really got around to touring in the US did they? They did however spend a lot of time in the UK.

Again; thank you all! I feel so at home here already!

This seems like a good enough place as any other to just pop my head in and say hello

I reckon I'll mostly be lurking here, but it wold be impolite to not say hello. You all seem to have such excellent repoire (I'm sure I've misspelled that) and it is a pure joy to read, so I'll try not to get in the way with my overly exaggerated and I'm quite sure; at times erroneous attempt at proper grammar.

I'm Norwegian, please don't think badly of me. We're awfully glad you helped us during the war!

Onwards and upwards