Mexican Filibusters from recent DVD release

MIDI Life Crisis · Post by **MIDI Life Crisis** » Sun Jan 01, 2012 5:15 pm

Mexican Filibusters is now available for viewing in its entirety. Of course, it was done on DP...

MIDI Life Crisis · Post by **MIDI Life Crisis** » Tue Jan 03, 2012 6:38 pm

Thanks man. Glad you dug it.

FMiguelez · Post by **FMiguelez** » Wed Feb 01, 2012 9:21 am

Hi, Mike!

Please check your PMs.

Wow! VERY nice!
I loved the music. It just flows effortlessly.

One of the things I notice is that your playing is very eclectic. You change seamlessly from Classical-Romantic styles to more modern ones. Some passages sounded in the style of Beethoven, for instance, while the next a bit like Albeniz.

I loved your reharmonizations of the Mexican anthem

The variations you make out of the anthem at around 11:30 are simply masterful. I could hear bits and pieces and references of the motif all over the place. You almost make a piano sonata out of it! You even used the motif at the very ending in your closing notes very effectively.

Let me ask you something, Mike:
Did you approach this by running the QT and "simply" react to it with your improvisations, recording them at the moment, and afterwards perfect them with MIDI editing?
I'm curious about your approach.

So thanks for sharing this, my friend. I certainly enjoyed it a lot

MIDI Life Crisis · Post by **MIDI Life Crisis** » Wed Feb 01, 2012 10:33 am

Hey man, thanks! This was not a largely improvised score and was worked out although not on paper. I loved discovering the Mexican national anthem. BTW, you were the first person to notice it so maybe I did too good a job on the variations.

It seemed pretty obvious to me but again, not many outside of Mexico would make the connection to a song they've never heard.

We need to get you up here in northern Mexico (Los Angeles, that is) one of these days.

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