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Amado Ohland
by Amado Ohland
Vocalist, composer, and improviser on a mission to use music to bring joy, hope, and mirth to people's lives, as well as relief from sorrow and despair.Use whatever you've got to do the same.
Episodes
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An Attack of Fiendish Faerie
An Attack of Fiendish Faerie by Amado Ohland
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eternal thirst - first stanza only
eternal thirst - first stanza only by Amado Ohland
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Affirmation [Aspiration to Change Course]
Affirmation [Aspiration to Change Course] by Amado Ohland
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Augmented Climb Progression - Simple Build Arrangement
Just a simple build, to practice and understand the progression and its chord members.
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Shape Your Fate
When you're done with this one, go hear https://soundcloud.com/amadoohland/with-all-ive-learned Enjoy!
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With All I've Learned...
When you're done with this one, go hear https://soundcloud.com/amadoohland/even-so-at-sunset ! It's time to re-commit to my life's calling. So, I put a little too much extra into this first one. I was in the grip of a hyper-focus, and I knew that if I didn't get something finished that the effort...
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Even So At Sunset
When you're done with this one, go check out https://soundcloud.com/amadoohland/leaving
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Lucky Thirteen [an attempt to Audio Master]
it's Friday the 13th. On a previous Friday the 13th, I recorded this. I thought I'd see if I could improve the audio quality. Did I get lucky?
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Zed Oop Aw, Zeh Too Paydee Kay
Zed Oop Aw, Zeh Too Paydee Kay by Amado Ohland
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King Augmento The Sixth
What better way to learn about your Augmented Sixth chords?
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Glimmers Of Grime
It started as a song to sing to people on Sunday the 28th of March (which didn't happen, but no matter), and as an experiment in using a "neutral third" scale degree (halfway between minor and major). Turns out, I didn't feel like I'd gotten the Neutral Third to work. It just sounded disturbing.…
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It's So Very Friday
It's So Very Friday by Amado Ohland
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Why Change Your Quest?
Why Change Your Quest? by Amado Ohland
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Never Swung This Way Before
I try the 57% swing (sort-of halfway between straight and 'standard' swing), based on septuplets. NO, i cannot do this yet without studio trickery. The test—the proof-of-concept—is: does this sound straight, swung, or kind-of in the middle? If I listen to this, maybe I can learn this feel.
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Will It Sway the World?
Will It Sway the World? by Amado Ohland
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Yemaya Asesu
Traditional Cuban. Arranged by Brian Tate.
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Evolving Hope
I tried some "minimalist"/procedural things with it that make it go too long; it's static, or requires a long attention-span to appreciate the ways in which it gradually changes from "texture A" to "texture B" and back again. Modified Arch Form—see if you can trace how it goes forward, and then...
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I Cant—YET
Just a trifle, really, but I am attached enough to it to include it as an example of my compositions. Short, under three minutes. Initially written for 4 brass, I liked it enough that I doubled its length and scored it for standard Brass Quintet. Enjoy.
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Let The Light In
"Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in." It wasn't during the composition of this piece that those words of Leonard Cohen came to me, but just after. As I neared completion of the piece, it was a beautiful Spring day in Appalachia, and I pulled...
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Souvenirs
Over the years, knowing the composers' passion for music, friends and family had adopted the practice of bringing back gifts of music-related mementos from their travels. The composer now has an eclectic collection of instruments—some only decorative, some functional, all of them beautiful, and…
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A Counting Accounting
Back at it, with the same tone row. See, I also just picked up the cheap version of Melodyne. Not because I want to be a cheater-singer, but because I often have to work out musical ideas that are beyond my ear. It's a tool. I today I sang sing-songy melodies into my DAW, and used Melodyne to…
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To Shun All Funk [mastered]
More atonal business. Or is it? 20th Century Expressionists sought ways to express through music that didn't rely on our (I believe) natural tendency to organize the experience around a tone center. One way was to make the rules: "no repeating a note until you've done all 12 of them, and you must...
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Just A Quick Check
So, am I ruined? If you can't tell what I'm talking about, the answer is: no!
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Geese And Ducks [another experiment]
Somebody stop me. I'm in a hyperfocus. Nah but seriously, here's another look at what I can do with a new toy. It may not be terribly musical, but it is of interest to me as a proof-of-concept.
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Sleep Deprivation [for cello and piano]
Sleep Deprivation [for cello and piano] by Amado Ohland
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Allergic to Leading Tones
Just a little chorale. But what happens when you split the [S] out as a lead, the [B] out as a bass, and make the inner voices a comping instrument? Cute. Starting from the part-writing rules of the Common Practice Period, I added N.C.T.s to minimize the presence of the leading tone (not…
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That's The Way It Goes Around
Now here's thgat same "allergic to leading tones" track as four voices (mine, badly rendered). The illustration here is that the voice leading rules of the Common Practice Period may not seem relevant to today's music, but it's all in what you do with them. I didn't even break any "rules."…
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Just Three
Three notes, three instruments, three minutes. One key change permitted, and one return to the original key. At least one slow section and one fast section. Go!
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Wildwood Bowers - Master Mix 3
it got edited. Now I need to sing more parts to fill in these obvious gaps. But now it is done...
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Wildwood Bowers
A new composition. As in, finished yesterday (unless my professor wants me to edit it).
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Love One Another [New Studio Performance]
A new studio recording of the first song I composed for study at Radford University. Adapting Circlesinging textures to something planned-out in advance. This is quite closer to my vision for the song... the groove could be tighter in places, but the performance is overall cleaner,
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In My Eyes: Starlight [last verse, vocal parts demo]
Still in the working stages, but I've decided (I'm pretty sure) that the end of the song I'm working on is going to sound mostly like this (but with a real Alto and Soprano, instead of my awful warblings).
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Jazz Choir Is No Accident
I fibbed. One more today, then I step away from the mic. This is a version of the very same thing, but with the chord progression changed so that there are no chromatic notes AT ALL—but every chord still has a 7th, or a 6th, and some have extended harmonies like 9ths or 13ths. The voicing goes…
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Take Jazz to Church
And here you go. Combine the three, because why not. It's fun, you can hear the contrasts in the sounds, and I save the coda for the last time through. Enjoy. This might even be listenable.
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Toward Jazz Choir - Open It Upwards
And here we are again. I think this is still Jazz Choir. It sounds different though, I think. I was able to use the same Bass track, and the old Mezzo track became the new Alto track. The Tenor needed just a note or two changed, so that was sung fresh; the new Mezzo and Soprano needed to be sung....
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Toward Jazz Choir - What's The Secret Sauce?
Alright, this doesn't suck. But, is it the close voicings, the 7th chords, or the chromaticism that's doing it? I don't think it's the close voicings. I tried that on something entirely diatonic and mostly free of 7th chords, and it didn't make it. Come to think of it, in the example prior to…
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is this Jazz Choir, or Church Choir?
Friends! I need to know. Does this sound like Jazz Choir voicings, or am I still stuck in Church Chorale mode? There's another step I want to take, but with this step I'm testing close voicings and non-chord tones. I don't think it's there yet. There's like 1 moment that it takes a turn that's…
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Where Did My Funk Go? [remaster]
same deal. An oldie that came up in my "Facebook Memories" lately that needed a trim at the end, so I slapped some mastering on it so you could enjoy it fer reelz.
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Equal Parts Each Opposite [remaster]
A remaster of a good old one.
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All The Cool Cats
I asked the Theory II class for which I'm a GTA for a poem, phrase, word, or topic for today's song. The first one I heard clearly was "cats." What is it about asking for Prompts that sometimes gets me ones that are... outside of what I think I'll be able to do? But that was the challenge, to…
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Be You Will, You Are
It doesn't thrill me, it doesn't. The song. It has issues. What DOES thrill me is that I did it from my tiny office at school, that my Composition prof thinks that I should keep this up, and that I'm staying on top of it. Enjoy.
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The Pure Joy Of Making Music
I didn't name the track until after I listened back to it. And then, I discovered that there's only one name that this song could possibly go by. Enjoy. Oh, enjoy!
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Get Right! Back To It!
The joy of getting back to what you're supposed to be doing. Might be same key and same tempo as a song I did called "Kidding Around" or "Just Kidding" or something. This is almost as playful and a little less kid-stuff. Not much.
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Lucky To Get Through This
's'funny how I never seem to notice when it's a Friday the 13th. Two challenges I'm addressing today and for the nonce. First, what kind of chromaticism and "non-vocal friendly" things can I pull off with my voice alone? Is my mental model of the music strong enough that I can do non-diatonic...
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Let's Find What Was Lost
Play on words. Let's find out what, if anything, atrophied from neglect of this daily process. Let's re-discover lost things. Play onward.
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Full Step Away, Half Step Toward
My task this week: to make sure that my return to academia is a step forward, not a regression to 20 years ago. To make sure it is a step toward what I want, and not merely a step away from things I don't like.
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Whole Time Partial, Full Step
The title—and the image—are much darker than the song. "Move chords," I'm told, "a piece of music is an event that flows, and without harmonic motion it doesn't seem to go anywhere." Okay, I see that, as far as it goes. But I went to a weird other chord this time. Because all the other ones were...
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Smiles All Wiley The Whole Time
This bit where I sing exactly what I want to—and tell the voices in my head that are telling me how to be—this is turning out to be fun.
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The Dance Of The Easy Smile
Something about them Major7 chords seems to frequently take me to the water. Floating or sinking or dancing on the beach.
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The Dig, The Drum, And The Dance
"Remember, sing what you want to! Remember, sing for fun!" How strange that that's what I have to try to remember. Not that hard though, really.
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Vocalist, composer, and improviser on a mission to use music to bring joy, hope, and mirth to people's lives, as well as relief from sorrow and despair.Use whatever you've got to do the same.
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