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    Posted: November 24 2012 at 05:09

I have little over three days to write a prog track, and I am wondering if anyone has any advice upon how I could do this.

Now, I know that many of you are going to write "Well, you can't just write a good progressive rock song in three days" but I actually have about 3 hours of motifs I have recorded.

Can any of you wonderful people give any musical advice or suggestions?

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Do a theme-and-variation thing.  You can take up a lot of time that way.
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Points: 6446 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 24 2012 at 18:00
Originally posted by The Mystical The Mystical wrote:


Now, I know that many of you are going to write "Well, you can't just write a good progressive rock song in three days" but I actually have about 3 hours of motifs I have recorded.



Take that 3 hours of recorded material and edit the living sh*t out of it; cut-and-paste and play some of it backwards...see what happens. A lot of 'prog' music was created this way. Oh, and what exactly is going to happen to you if you fail to make a prog song in three days?
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A very talented person could do it in three days, but an idiot wouldn't be able to do it in 6 years. Do you have a strong grounding in music theory and application?
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Originally posted by pitfall pitfall wrote:

Do you have a strong grounding in music theory and application?

Yes.
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Thanks guys, I wrote a pretty mad prog track. Good fun.
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Originally posted by The Mystical The Mystical wrote:

Thanks guys, I wrote a pretty mad prog track. Good fun.

Let us hear it then!
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Originally posted by Marty219 Marty219 wrote:

Originally posted by The Mystical The Mystical wrote:

Thanks guys, I wrote a pretty mad prog track. Good fun.

Let us hear it then!

Indeed!
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