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<LI><A NAME="tex2html78"
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HREF="node4.html#SECTION00410000000000000000">Deep River--A Swinging Spiritual</A>
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HREF="node4.html#SECTION00420000000000000000">Future Directions</A>
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<H1><A NAME="SECTION00400000000000000000">
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A More Complex Example</A>
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Fun time. We're going to take an old (slow) spiritual and surprise some people!
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We'll also learn about repeats, play with volumes, and do some interesting
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tempo things.
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<H1><A NAME="SECTION00410000000000000000">
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Deep River--A Swinging Spiritual</A>
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<SPAN CLASS="textbf"><BIG CLASS="XLARGE">A Public Domain Song</BIG></SPAN> <A NAME="eg:deepriver"></A>
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</tr> </td>
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<IMG WIDTH="95%" SRC="mup/deep.png" ALT="Lost Image">
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</td> </tr>
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Rather than list the song separately, we've inter spaced the listing with
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textual comments. If you want to see the listing, it is in the <SPAN CLASS="textbf">egs</SPAN>
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directory.
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We start out with a comment block.
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<Table Hspace="40%" CellSpacing=0 CellPadding=10 BGColor="OldLace" Border=3>
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<B>// Deep River </B>
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Start off by selecting the 4 beat metronome.
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<Table Hspace="40%" CellSpacing=0 CellPadding=10 BGColor="OldLace" Border=3>
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<B>Groove metronome2-4 </B>
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We want to surprise our listeners a bit, so we start off with a “normal”
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tempo. The single “z” produces a 4 beat introduction.
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<Table Hspace="40%" CellSpacing=0 CellPadding=10 BGColor="OldLace" Border=3>
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<B>Tempo 90
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z
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Groove FolkArticulated </B>
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As an introduction we play some nice, gentle chords for 4 bars.
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<Table Hspace="40%" CellSpacing=0 CellPadding=10 BGColor="OldLace" Border=3>
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<B>1 F
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2 Dm
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3 Gm
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4 C7 </B>
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Surprise time. We are going to pump the tempo up to 140 BPM and
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select the Swing2 Groove.
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<B>Tempo 140
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Groove Swing2 </B>
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If we just did a switch of rhythm and tempo it'd be quite “interesting”.
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We need some
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kind of a transition. Hmmm, what if we have two beats (not four) of swing
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drums? We could create a 2 beat measure, but it's quite cool to give the
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drummer a real workout. So, here we double the time and put in a single
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“z” bar.
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<B>Tempo *2
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z </B>
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Now, we restore the tempo to the original 140.
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<B>Tempo *.5 </B>
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Now, just like the sheet music we insert a repeat start.
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<B>Repeat </B>
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Set the volume, and advise
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<FONT Face="Serif" Color="Navy"><I>MMA</I></FONT> that we'd like it get softer over the
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next 8 bars. Here we use the optional “start volume” setting in the
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D<SMALL>ECRESC</SMALL> command. If we don't the current volume will be used, and
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right after a repeat that is not a good idea.
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<B>Decresc mf mp 8 </B>
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This is straightforward chording.
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<B>5 F
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6 Gm
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7 Dm
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8 Am C
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9 F
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10 Gm / Dm
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11 F / C7
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12 F
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13 Dm
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14 Am </B>
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Increase the volume over the next 4 bars, and more chording.
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<B>Cresc ff 4
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15 Bb
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16 Am / / C7
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17 F
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18 Gm
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19 F / C7
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20 Am / Dm C7
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21 F
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22 Gm </B>
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This is the first/second ending. Note how we've put a “2” at the end
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of the next line ... this forces 2 repeats.
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<B>RepeatEnding 2
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23 / / / C7
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24 F </B>
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For the second and third time we play this we want a more interesting
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accompaniment. So, we select “Swing2Plus” which adds a clarinet doing
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its thing.
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<Table Hspace="40%" CellSpacing=0 CellPadding=10 BGColor="OldLace" Border=3>
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<B>Groove Swing2Plus </B>
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This ends the repeated section.
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<B>RepeatEnd </B>
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For our 2 bar ending we select the “Swing2End” groove. Next, we
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ritard our tempo over the next 2 bars.
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<Table Hspace="40%" CellSpacing=0 CellPadding=10 BGColor="OldLace" Border=3>
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<B>Groove Swing2End
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Tempo -40 2
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1 / / / C7 </B>
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The “Swing2End” groove has a neat little saxophone scale. But only on the
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third and fourth bars. It is a four bar sequence and the first two give
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the sax player time to rest. The <SPAN CLASS="textbf">Seq 3</SPAN> forces the sequence to use
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the bar with the solo. We also set the solo to a louder volume.
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<B>Scale Volume ff
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Seq 3
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1 F
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Fermata -1 1 200 </B>
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To finish off the example, we add a bit of time to the last note with a <SPAN CLASS="textbf">fermata</SPAN>
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command.
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Compile this example and play it. Follow along on both the sheet music and the
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<FONT Face="Serif" Color="Navy"><I>MMA</I></FONT> file so you understand what's happening.
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Well, that's two examples.
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Certainly, the ideas here only scratch the surface of what
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<FONT Face="Serif" Color="Navy"><I>MMA</I></FONT> can do.
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We, as developers, can only hope that we've included enough commands and options
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for you to create wonderful music. And hope that if we haven't, that you
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let us know.
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May we suggest that you list and examine some of the
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sample songs--then, it's all up to you. Have fun!
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