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Twilight
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Regarded by many to be my best piano work in a studio song, this intricate piano ballad is accented by string orchestra, light percussion, and bass guitar, and carries a melody you'll find yourself singing time and time again.
jesse worley piano ballad
One guy with a full digital studio, 20 years of piano training, and way too much time on his hands.
I'm a workaholic when it comes to music, often taking on far more projects than a single human should endure. I start somewhere between ten and twenty pieces of music per week, though no more than a couple per month make it to a second round of writing. At any given moment I'm working on several pieces of music, with about one in three coming to completion and release. The rest are usually stored, as I find that elements of unreleased music often work in current undertakings. Given time, every note that I write finds its way into a released work. Composition for me is as much a part of my life as eating and sleeping. While I once believed I actually had a need to write music, I've learned otherwise over the last few years. I write music, quite simply, because it's there to be written. There is a constant score playing in my mind as I live my life, and my inspiration is drawn from that. Sometimes the music isn't worth listening to and I write very little, and sometimes the music is too powerful for me to sleep.
Song Info
Genre
World New Age
Charts
Peak #151
Peak in subgenre #34
Author
Jesse Worley
Uploaded
September 13, 2002
Track Files
MP3
MP3 6.3 MB 128 kbps 0:00
Story behind the song
I began this piece immediately after completing part one of "Into the Dream" as an escape from the piece. While I very much wanted to complete part two, I couldn't bring myself to give the music justice. The simple melodies in what was to become Twilight kept playing through my head, so I sat down and recorded this song. I used a progression in the second bridge from For a Moment (unreleased work), so I consider this a combination of old and not so old ideas. Twilight is the overall theme, with the simple piano riff in the upper registers. It is, however, not an entirely new song either. While I rarely played pieces of it on the piano, it's a theme I wrote some eight years ago. Combining the two works had been on my mind a few times. I chose some strange instruments for this music in places, bringing in light, airy synths to complement a deep tone with soft richness. I kept the music simple for the most part, with an almost march-style slow percussion thump and violins/violas carrying the harmonies. All of the piano is live, of course.
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