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[7in7] Session 6, Day 4 - Pumpkin Spiced

VERSE 1:
Walkin’ through the grocery store
Same old aisles as every week before
But everything looks a little different, and it costs a little more
And no one seems to know exactly who they’re doing it for

VERSE 2:
If you got treats you just can’t seem to sell
I got a trick for you that never seems to fail
If you wanna see some product fly off those shelves
Then, baby, get in line behind the PSL
 
CHORUS:
Just say it’s pumpkin-spiced
Then you wrap it up in orange, tell the folks it tastes nice
Nah, they don’t seem to mind what it may have inside
For a limited time, they won’t think twice
If you say it’s pumpkin-spiced

VERSE 3:
Well, we got Oreos, and Cheerios, and Pop Tarts, and breads
We got biscuits, and bagels, and syrups and spreads
Popcorn, and Twinkies, and ice cream, and SPAM
Trash bags, and T.P., and a US President

CHORUS 2:
Just say it’s pumpkin-spiced
Then wrap it up in orange and tell the folks that it’s alright
They may not understand, but they won’t put up a fight
Cause any pill that’s hard to swallow will go down just fine 
If you say it’s pumpkin-spiced

VERSE 4:
Now I ain’t saying product marketing is inherently wrong
Nah, it just is what it is, and we all play along
So if there’s a label that can sell damn near anything it’s on
Then if I could, you know I would slap it on this very song

CHORUS 3:
I’d say it’s pumpkin-spiced
Then I’d wrap it up in orange, put it up on all my sites
Don’t matter what it’s worth so long as I can set the price
Full of truth or full of lies, I’ll never know if I don’t try
So this is pumpkin-spiced
Ya, this is pumpkin-spiced
I’ll call it “Pumpkin-Spiced”
Oh, man I hope I’m right


Pumpkin-Spiced

ROADS & RIVERS is a soul-stirring collection of fifteen original Americana songs that trace the contours of the human heart across the vast American landscape.

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I played this track in synthesizers emulating a real orchestra, using the original music score for orchestra by Samuel Barber.

The most challenging aspect of this play was to keep all the musicality, emotion and expression contained in the original score while using very impersonal instruments - a synth attached to computer, a mouse and music software (digital audio workstation). 

I listened to many impressive orchestra recordings of the track as inspiration, but decided to be truthful to the music score - which was the intention of Samuel Barber. The total time of my play is a little over 7 minutes (the music scores establishes 7-8 minutes of playing time, but many famous orchestras play it much slower, in about 10 minutes, which I consider not so accurate to the composer's ideas).

Firstly, I had to choose synth orchestra instruments suitable for such a slow paced song. These instruments should not sound harsh nor too artificial and needed to deliver nice vibratos and timbres. It took me days to find them. 

Of course, I could not play all instruments at once. So I played every part separately - violins, violas, violoncellos, and double-bass - and mixed them together. It is quite difficult to keep a right pace playing each part separately, even when mixing them in "real time". In total, I played 10 parallel tracks, as I added some refinements, such as a solo violin which would sound like a spalla of the first violin set.

One of the very intense activities was to make the "waves" that typical orchestra instruments make. This was done in post production, by means of carefully changing the intensity of each instrument of set of instruments, as well as the tempo of the whole song.

At the final mixing/mastering phase, I used convolvers, compressors and equalization so as to produce the most real sonority possible, in such a way that the listener cannot tell if it was a real orchestra or a synthesized one.

Close your eyes and enjoy!

Samuel Barber - Adagio For Strings Op. 11 - synthesizer orchestra (Claudio Meluzzi)

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