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Was hoping some of you musicians could give me some composition tips. I've tried everything I can think of, but so far I haven't been able to get these kind of effects into group music...


* I'd like to do fades in and out. I'm having the dangest time working out how to do these without it sounding terrible.

* Crescendos and dimuendos, can't figure out how people arrive at these...

* Flowthrough from one flourish to another, to be able to get prolonged trills and other such nice effects.


Any ideas? I'm more than willing to come to your server and listen to what sort of things you've come up with, if you can name a time and place...

I have a few suggestions that probably won't help past what you've probably already tried:

for crescendos and dimuendos, have more than one player on the instrument and instead of /stopmusic (which causes that tag line and bump note all the time) use /pausemusic;/pause 1;/sit;/stand or something to that effect that will make your character move and stop playing. That would be limited unless you had a full orchestra and about 4 people per part to fade in and out on cue.

The only way I can think to do a fade in is to have the whole band already doing a repeated /pausemusic when the leader does /startmusic. Then the rest of the band can simply release the /pausemusic one at a time for a fade in without doing the intro measure. Real ugly, but it might sound better.

I hope someone else has better ideas than I did.