Thursday, January 22, 2009

The Flip-Side Original Song Project: "The Last Dance at Ipatiev" by Morgan Young




In the spirit of "never ask someone to do something you yourself are not willing to do," I'll be the first to post an original song. The song is an instrumental entitled The Last Dance at Ipatiev,
and, in addition to my "musicianship", features a one-word contribution from my daughter, Olivia. It includes two guitar tracks, one piano track and one triangle track. (Yep, a whole track for my son's toy triangle.) The guitar is a 1999 Gibson SJ200 and the piano is an 1800's era piano that came with our house. She's out-of-tune, but I kinda like it that way. I hope you enjoy. Bonus points for anyone who can decipher the title.

4 comments:

  1. More triangle!

    No, really, that's very nice. Kinda reminds me of the "Third Man Theme." Without the zither of course.

    ReplyDelete
  2. That is really sweet. I really like the second chord progression - I have no idea what you are doing there! The middle section with the monotonous choppy chord conjures up images of approaching assassins only to culminate in the resonating piano chord and a return to the dance. That's how I see it anyway.

    Hey, did you make that pick guard for the Silvertone?

    ReplyDelete
  3. "Kinda reminds me of the "Third Man Theme." Without the zither of course"

    And we all know what that would be...nothing! It was all Zither, no?

    ReplyDelete
  4. "the second chord progression - I have no idea what you are doing there!"

    Roughly: Em --> B7 --> F#7 --> Bm. The voicings make it sound a tad different, however.

    Re: the pickguard. No, that is for a 100% original Silvertone Aristocrat I flipped a couple of years back. I still have an Aristocrat but it is an earlier, larger bodied model and has Gibson P90's in it instead of these speed bump pups you see in the pic.

    ReplyDelete