{"id":489,"date":"2009-09-04T03:11:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-04T07:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=489"},"modified":"2009-09-04T03:14:22","modified_gmt":"2009-09-04T07:14:22","slug":"across-the-kingdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=489","title":{"rendered":"Across the Kingdom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick post here to mention that I\u2019ve uploaded another YouTube video of my latest piece, Opus 52, an orchestral piece called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fMpd9bUJ0wo\">Across the Kingdom<\/a>.\u00a0 For some reason, I ended not using the harp at all.\u00a0 Amazing, huh?\u00a0 Much of the piece consists of the chord progression I-vi-IV-V (or sometimes vi-iii-IV-V).\u00a0 In fact, the second half was almost entirely about seeing how many melodies I could compose to the progression, while not completely overdoing it or making the melodies sound too distant from each other.\u00a0 Kind of makes the bass line a bit boring, but the focus doesn\u2019t always need to be on you, you bassists!<\/p>\n<p>So that makes 6 pieces for my upcoming album: White Castle Waltz, On the Edge of a Dream, The Dragon King, Voyage of the Dream Maker, Dance of Fools, and now Across the Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>I have at least 4 other pieces started that need finishing, some of which will surely be on the album as well.<\/p>\n<div id=\"scid:5737277B-5D6D-4f48-ABFC-DD9C333F4C5D:798122fe-7713-4800-a585-030fc8c2bc30\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; float: none; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px\">\n<div><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/fMpd9bUJ0wo&amp;hl=en\" \/><\/object><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick post here to mention that I\u2019ve uploaded another YouTube video of my latest piece, Opus 52, an orchestral piece called Across the Kingdom.\u00a0 For some reason, I ended not using the harp at all.\u00a0 Amazing, huh?\u00a0 Much of the piece consists of the chord progression I-vi-IV-V (or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[23],"tags":[133,30],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7gI4B-7T","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}