Flying Tadpole
Blues: guitar/piano/wind/drums instrumental or vocal. Satirical pop. World. New Age. Neoclassical. Celtic. Musicals. Classical. Opera. Even the odd bit of COu
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Le Moulin du Bruel Le Moulin du Bruel
Near-master Folk motifs, sounds like early 20thC european art music (Vaughan Williams). Piano, woodwinds, strings, no percussion; countryside feel England/Brittany. Garritan Personal Orchestra samples
The upstairs room The upstairs room
Piano, flute, harp, strings in a conversation on a warm spring afternoon with dalliance on the mind. Garritan Personal orchestra samples.
The kitchen and the Sketcher The kitchen and the Sketcher
Instrumental. Acoustic plucked strings in a rolling folk dance measure. Garritan Personal Orchestra samples
The Mill Pond The Mill Pond
Slow moving ambient music: acoustic piano, humming string pads and a flute (and piccolo) Garritan Personal Orchestra samples
The Broken Bridge The Broken Bridge
A water soundscape, strings, piano and clarinet bubbling along quick and lively. GPO samples
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A mix of Flying Tadpole, Tim Fatchen, and performances of The Internet Opera.
Flying Tadpole has Blues, satire, light rock on offer.
Alter ego Tim Fatchen concentrates on new age/neoclassical, usually instrumental and keyboard based. Styles like: George Winston, Yanni, Enya.
The Internet Opera is musical and light opera, intended for performance with additional artists. Rocky Horror meets HMS Pinafore.Have you performed in front of an audience?Tim Fatchen is back to playing live, as a repetiteur for local choir/singing groups with baroque through to late 1950's repertoire, and community musical theatre.
"Like it" doesn't quite match...I needed the discipline to force me to get my keyboard technique (and sightreading) back up to where it should be.
Special moments: the very first gig with the Alexandrina Singers: I'd been with the choir a week: no piano at the venue: no stage piano: had to use my keyboard with a _borrowed_ amp, incidentally a Fender Sidekick bass amp. Didn't kill anyone with the first chord but I'm sure bats fell dead onto the ceiling.
Flying Tadpole and its blues precursor hasn't played live since the mid 70's, sigh.
Your musical influences
Just about everything other than an abiding hatred of cowboy songs. Though even there I'm not wholly consistent ("rollin' rollin' rollin'..."). Classical, church, rock, pop, new age, and English, anglo-celtic and north American folk, some jazz, with blues as relaxation.What equipment do you use?
custom 2.8 GHz 1GB Pentium with Audiophile 2496 soundcard, running Notation Composer for input, writing and music editing, and sundry Steinberg programs and Cakewalk Music Creator for production; feeding either or all, a Medeli SP-1 stage piano 88 weighted keys, a Medeli MC-710 76 key GM keyboard (better sounds than the preceding, but not the piano feel), an antique Yamaha PSR-310, various soundfonts. Acoustic:
John Brinsmead & Sons 6'6" string boudoir grand piano, ca1880, with a Tascam master recorder (tape), two Sennheiser m200 mics. Newer material uses Garritan Personal Orchestra, Bandstand also.
And assorted crap incluing my eBay guitar, so bad I haven't recorded anything with it yet...Anything else?
Notation Composer from www.notation.com is a truly magic notation program, and midi sequencer/writer for those who use musical notation in an everyday sense. It doesn't have all the whistles of the big boys but it's close, and an intuitive interface! Thanks Mark! AND it keeps getting better. AND it didn't require my bank manager's signature to buy it. New edition out shortly!
Mt Barker SA,
Australia
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Comments (5)
Howdy,
Thanks for sharing all your wonderful music - fantabulous!
ttfn,
Sherry
La Seye is wonderful. How talented you are!!
cheers
Vikki
super
super
super-
Play agein please!!!!!!!!!!!!
James, I just need a singer (hint. hint...)
Hey, Mr. Tadpole... stopped by and listened to "Lost, Forlorn" once again after hearing it on the Musical charts today. Beautiful melody! I'd love to hear it sung.
Great work, FT.
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