Here's a #MIDI backing track with cymbals and upright bass for "After You've Gone", this week's #jazztotw.

There's a count-off, followed by the chorus repeated three times.

https://magicians.band/static/jazztotw/after-you've-gone/After%20You've%20Gone.mid

And a couple of MP3s from the midi, at 90bpm and 126bpm:

https://magicians.band/static/jazztotw/after-you've-gone/AfterYou'veGone-Bb-90bpm.mp3

https://magicians.band/static/jazztotw/after-you've-gone/AfterYou'veGone-Bb-126bpm.mp3

And the #musicalmidiaccompaniment source file used to generate the midi:

https://magicians.band/static/jazztotw/after-you've-gone/After%20You've%20Gone.mma

#jazzstandard #jazz @musicians

oh hey! I fired up my RSS reader for the first time in months and saw that Bob van der Poel released a new version of MMA: Musical Midi Accompaniment that includes a number of new fixes and features, including a patch I submitted last year that extracts groove information from a given .mma file.

I don't remember exactly why I even wanted this feature enough to implement it at the time, but it makes it a lot easier to consume metadata about MMA grooves.

https://mellowood.ca/mma/index.html

I haven't tinkered with MMA much in a while; since getting my piano last summer, I find that midi backup sounds very wooden. But, I did dust it off the other day to make a piano backup track for practicing 'Tyro Mazurka'... and I think as a composition tool MMA could be very useful for algorithmically generating 'broad strokes' parts based on a chord progression; let MMA generate a midi file, import the midi file into Lilypond/MuseScore/etc, tweak, and engrave.

#musicalmidiaccompaniment #midi #music #fediversemusic #musicsoftware @musicians

I just submitted a patch to the author of MMA - #musicalmidiaccompaniment to add support for extracting Groove information in JSON format, for reasons. No idea if it will make it into the main project but meanwhile, I put it up in a gist: https://gist.github.com/tinpan-io/2aef67e4b7bac7e2c2b1121349501a51

Spent pretty much all day yesterday getting reacquainted with the pieces I had picked for the #banjo EP I started working on last year, and building piano parts for them with #musicalmidiaccompaniment.

I'm terrible about following through on my recording projects in general, but part of the reason this one petered out was that I wasn't happy with any of the instrumentation I was experimenting with. These piano parts are simple but they fit. Going to push in this direction.

One very nice thing #musicalmidiaccompaniment has is a randomization feature, which can vary the volume, timing, and duration of notes so they're not totally robotic. (And you can adjust how extreme each of those metrics are.) You can also actually tweak the pitch, which I imagine could be pretty interesting in some scenarios.

I'm delving back into "Turner's 60 Breakdowns, Jigs, and Hornpipes" by Herbert J. Ellis, a book full of fun little bite-sized duets that work up pretty quickly.

I'm pretty pleased with this piano track, generated using #musicalmidiaccompaniment which I still barely grok, but already prefer to apps like iRealPro in the same way I prefer LilyPond+Frescobaldi to MuseScore et al.