Greetings Bill and the team,
Honestly, my goall to respond to anybody is to help them according to what I
know. Vous comprenez plus ou moins ce que je voudrais dire.
Apart GoodFeel, I believe you also should think of SONAR that I use as a
synthesizer, although I only have a two-octaved MIDI keyboard I use as an
input, Korg's Nano-Key2. as I am working on a Mediterranean medley, I usually
record each song by arranging in simple keys (usually D Minor, A Minor, C
Major, G Major, F Major, G Minor). If the song is originally recorded in the
key of "Part-time lover", in a context of rai music, knowing that they often
use synthesizers, derbuka, and a trumpet, some groups have to transpose the
keyboard by a semitone higher when someone performs a glissando choosing the
piano patch before repeating the words' verse. One thing I like of Arabic music
is repeating a verse after two phrases, the second of which use the same
melody. Then, they repeat both phrases and the passage a second time sometimes
with ornaments, for those who misunderstand. Concerning me, I usually record
these songs in a simpler key, for I only use that two-octave keyboard, then
harmonize in each other track, then transpose each midi track to the desired
key to somehow be faithful to the original version.
Speaking of electronic keyboards, somebody told me at the Algier's opera that
they mostly use electronic keyboards of up to five octaves (C2-C7); the highest
note is appropriate for Beethoven's middle period or the early nineteenth
century. By the way, Salma Mouiret, an Algerian singer whose way to sing is
influenced by flamenco, Algérois, and a bit of Shakira and some soul performed
in Arabic, French, and Spanish; in English, perhaps. I love the way she sings
but I wonder if she sings classical too. What is her voice category? In a pop
context, it is difficult to determine.
As for the instruments, they used a guitar for flamenco, an electronic keyboard
by Korg, the violins, the derbukas, and others. As for the keyboard, using the
piano patch, I find out that the highest note is appropriate for the early
19th-century, classically (Beethoven), perhaps up to D7, unless they may have
transposed the five-octaved keyboard in D when a song in B Minor was performed.
In my opinion, they should have used 88-key keyboards to perform anything: Jeu
d'eau by Ravel, for example.
Most keyboards' top note is often C, C Major's tonic; sometimes G, its
dominant, rarely the F, the subdominant. C2-C6, C2-C7, E1-G7, perhaps F1-F7,
and surely A0-C8. A0-C8 is in my opinion the best choice.
Thank you.
Adel
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part de Bill McCann
Envoyé : 20 mars 2020 16:06
À : ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Objet : [ddots-l] Re: My Given Name
Adel, I admire you for your command of 3 or 4 languages. I hope that you have
continued to compose music as you certainly have that talent as well. I know
that you have learned a lot about how to use Lime with Lime Aloud and GOODFEEL.
As far as our list goes, my recommendation to you and to all other list members
would be that you only reply to posts to which you have an answer to supply.
That is, replying to someone's question with more questions is not typically
helpful.
I wish that I knew more French. The closest I have come to Algiers was last
fall when I went to Morocco to participate in the festival for blind musicians
at the invitation of our friend, Abdel Fattah Douk. I was pleasantly surprised
to learn that in that region of Morocco near Tangier, I was able to communicate
to many people in Spanish, my own second language. And so,
Saludos Cordiales,
Bill
From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of A Ker
Sent: Friday, March 20, 2020 12:35 PM
To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: My Given Name
Good afternoon Chriss (from Ottawa),
I think you are half right. My given name's origin is Arabic (I was born in
Algiers but moved in Canada the following year to avoid the civil war). I lived
in Montreal for five or six years but studied in Ottawa perhaps to become
bilingual: French and English. I studied in French elementary and secondary
schools in Ottawa with some English classes and little Spanish, too. I even
studied ESL at the Ottawa Unviersity, where I had been trained with SONAR, to
improve my remaining weaknesses I had then, including the official way to use
the grammar. By the way, could you please forgive me if it takes me some time,
for I need to apply the grammatical rules in English?
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Adel
De : ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] De la part de Chris Smart
Envoyé : 19 mars 2020 12:32
À : ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Objet : [ddots-l] Re: Corona Virus and Blank Spaces?
I realize ADel is French, so English is not his first language, but there must
be something else going on...
At 12:30 PM 3/19/2020, you wrote:
Yeah, what the heck is this?
From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
<ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> On Behalf
Of Chris Smart
Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2020 10:22 AM
To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Corona Virus and Blank Spaces?
What???
At 10:36 AM 3/19/2020, you wrote:
Greetings Stacy and the community,
I am Adel and hope that posting may have been an impact for you (and the
community). Two weeks ago, you tried to post but something wrong had probably
happened: a blank message caused by the developing and Corona Virus?
Thank you.
Adel
De : ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [
<mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] De ;
la part de Stacy Blackwell
Envoyé : 4 mars 2020 18:42
À : 'ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
<ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >
Objet : [ddots-l] Testing
Hi, all. Just testing to see if I'm posting again. It's been a long time.
Stacy
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