Eerie, resonant synth pad for the first song on my 4th Jamendo album, Points of Departure: “Falling Into the Dream”

I am releasing all of the original tracks for this album under Creative Commons. This was the biggest song on the album, so I had to take a few extra steps to make sure the files could be uploaded to ccMixter successfully.

1. If a file nickname is “begins_0_min.ogg”, it is a high fidelity stereo .ogg file. If it is sequenced to start at time 0:00, it will line up with all the other time 0:00 tracks to produce the original song.

2. On the other hand, if the file nickname is “offset_5_min.ogg”, it has to be sequenced to start at time 5:00. It will then line up with the other 5’s, the other 0’s, the bass track, and the percussion tracks (see #4).

Of course both of the above are irrelevant if you’re planning on cutting out samples from individual tracks. However, I frequently wish I had the original tracks in sync and in context when I am trying a remix of my own — I figure it can’t hurt.

3. If the file nickname is “30s_preview.mp3”, it is just a 30s preview snippet, a characteristic moment of the track. (Thanks to teru and fourstones for the advice!)

4. Instead of uploading a massive percussion track, I uploaded a zipfile (in Group 1) called fallid_structures.zip. It contains the original Hydrogen drumtrack, as well as a MIDI rendering of the drumtrack. Drop in your own sounds and you are ready to go. (The nickname for this file is “archive: midi, H2, pdf”)

5. Further, for those of you with the old-fashioned manual keyboard sequencer, I have also uploaded sheet music for the main part of the composition (pdf format, found in the zipfile in Group 1). There is a second, smaller composition within the main song (at about 5 minutes) called “Sleeping in Light”; it’s easy to figure out, so I just left it as an exercise for the interested reader ;-)

artist: Bruce H. McCosar
album: Points of Departure
track: 1
title: Falling Into the Dream
URL: http://www.jamendo.com/en/a...

Group 1: Bass and Percussion

McCosar_fallid_bass_30s_preview.mp3
McCosar_fallid_bass_begins_0_min.ogg
fallid_structures.zip

fallid_structures.zip contains:
McCosar_fallid_percussion.h2song
McCosar_fallid_percussion.midi
McCosar_FallingIntoTheDream.pdf

Group 2: Darkpad

McCosar_fallid_darkpad_30s_preview.mp3
McCosar_fallid_darkpad_begins_0_min.ogg
McCosar_fallid_darkpad_offset_5_min.ogg

Group 3: Lead Guitar

McCosar_fallid_leadgtr_30s_preview.mp3
McCosar_fallid_leadgtr_begins_0_min.ogg
McCosar_fallid_leadgtr_offset_5_min.ogg

Group 4: Piano

McCosar_fallid_piano_30s_preview.mp3
McCosar_fallid_piano_begins_0_min.ogg
McCosar_fallid_piano_offset_5_min.ogg

Group 5: Resopad

McCosar_fallid_resopad_30s_preview.mp3
McCosar_fallid_resopad_begins_0_min.ogg
McCosar_fallid_resopad_offset_5_min.ogg

Group 6: Subtlepad

McCosar_fallid_subtlepad_30s_preview.mp3
McCosar_fallid_subtlepad_offset_5_min.ogg

Group 7: Trem Guitar

McCosar_fallid_tremgtr_30s_preview.mp3
McCosar_fallid_tremgtr_begins_0_min.ogg
McCosar_fallid_tremgtr_offset_5_min.ogg

"Falling Into the Dream (5 of 7: Resopad)"
by Bruce H. McCosar

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