Not every musical piece is destined for greatness. Nor is every piece designed to be beautiful. Such is this case with this week’s piece, “FRANTIC!!“
The last composition in my last music journal, “FRANTIC!!” is designed to induce a sense of frenetic anxiety in both the listener and the performer. Even the super short musical score is arranged to confound the performer, even though the piece is actually quite easy to play.
And here’s the same video on YouTube:
Here is the final score, which I partially colorized to give it a kind of Italian giallo feel:
Finally, here is the original, scribbled manuscript—the last bit of original composing in my last music journal:
Happy—or, perhaps, anxiety-inducing!—listening!
—TPP
Other Editions of Open Mic Adventures:
- “Open Mic Adventures I: Oingo Boingo’s ‘Just Another Day’“
- “Open Mic Adventures II: Billy Joel’s ‘Piano Man’“
- “Open Mic Adventures III: Joanie Sommers’s ‘Johnny Get Angry’“
- “Open Mic Adventures IV: KISS’s ‘I Still Love You’“
- “Open Mic Adventures V: ‘There’s a Light (Over at the Frankenstein Place)’“
- “Open Mic Adventures VI: Journey’s ‘Lovin’, Touchin’, Squeezin’“
- “Open Mic Adventures VII: ‘Suite: Judy Blue Eyes’“
- “Open Mic Adventures VIII: Simon & Garfunkel’s ‘The Sound of Silence’“
- “Open Mic Adventures IX: Journey’s ‘Faithfully’“
- “Open Mic Adventures X: ‘Time Warp’“
- “Open Mic Adventures XI: Spooktacular Supergroup Covers ‘Monster Mash’“
- “Open Mic Adventures XII: ‘Ghostly’“
- “Open Mic Adventures XIII: The Penguins’ ‘Earth Angel’“
- “Open Mic Adventures XIV: ‘Hark! The Herald Angels Sing’“
- “Open Mic Adventures XV: ‘O Holy Night’“
- “Open Mic Adventures XVI: ‘Please Come Home for Christmas’“
- “Open Mic Adventures XVII: ‘L’il Divertimento in C major’“
- “Open Mic Adventures XVIII: ‘Satiean Motion’“
- “Open Mic Adventures XIX: ‘Two-Day Minuet for Left Hand’“
- “Open Mic Adventures XX: ‘Sleepy Student’s Serenade’“
- “Open Mic Adventures XXI: Styx’s ‘Come Sail Away’“
- “Open Mic Adventures XXII: ‘Blessed Assurance’“
- “Open Mic Adventures XXIII: ‘Gabbi’s Gavotte’“
- “Open Mic Adventures XXIV: ‘Softly and Tenderly’“
- “Open Mic Adventures XXV: ‘Venite, exultemus Domino’“
- “Open Mic Adventures XXVI: ‘Sonatina’“
- “Open Mic Adventures XXVII: ‘Heavenly Sunlight’“
- “Open Mic Adventures XXVIII: ‘Song of the Bigfoot’”
- “Open Mic Adventures XXIX: ‘Lavender’s Blue’“
- “Open Mic Adventures XXX: ‘Chorale for a Sleepy Wednesday’“
- “Open Mic Adventures XXXI: ‘Carousel’“
- “Open Mic Adventures XXXII: Hymn Medley“
- “Open Mic Adventures XXXIII: ‘Spore Song (Mushroom Dance)’“
- “Open Mic Adventures XXXIV: ‘Chase’s Dilemma’“
- “Open Mic Adventures XXXV: ‘The Rings of Saturn’“
- “Open Mic Adventures XXXVI: ‘The Rings of Saturn’ LIVE!“
- “Open Mic Adventures XXXVII: ‘Private Lessons (Goth Chick)’“
- “Open Mic Adventures XXXVIII: ‘Quasi-Date’“
- “Open Mic Adventures XXXIX: ‘(I’m in the) Business of Love)’“
- “Open Mic Adventures XL: ‘Parada’“
- “Open Mic Adventures XLI: ‘Serenade for a Sleepy Student No. 2’“
- “Open Mic Adventures XLII: ‘1001 Arabian Nights’“
- “Open Mic Adventures XLIII: ‘Greek Fair’“
- “Open Mic Adventures XLIV: ‘Skeleton Dance No. 1’“
- “Open Mic Adventures XLV: ‘Skeleton Dance No. 1’ – BASS“
- “Open Mic Adventures XLVI: ‘Canon Event’“
- “Open Mic Adventures XLVIII: ‘Skeleton Dance No. 2’“
- “Open Mic Adventures XLIX: Sloppy ‘Hipster Girl Next Door’ Medley“
- “Open Mic Adventures L: ‘Lament of the Lizardman’“
- “Open Mic Adventures LI: ‘Bigfoot Boogie’“
- “Open Mic Adventures LII: ‘Minuet for a New Moon’“
- “Open Mic Adventures LIII: ‘Andante in D major’“
- “Open Mic Adventures LIV: ‘I Need Thee Every Hour’“
- “Open Mic Adventures LV: ‘”Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus’“
- “Open Mic Adventures LVI: ‘Orange Roll’“
- “Open Mic Adventures LVII: ‘Firefly Dance’“
- “Open Mic Adventures LVIII: ‘Kartofelsalat’“
- “Open Mic Adventures LIX: ‘Listless Chorale’“
- “Open Mic Adventures LX: ‘Silent Night’“
- “Open Mic Adventures LXI: ‘Hark! The Herald Angels Sing’“
- “Open Mic Adventures LXII: ‘O Little Town of Bethlehem’“
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The Portly Politico 
Tina said that sounds like the music for an early 80s platform game. She’s not wrong. 😉
I still say you should put your compositions together and see what you come up with.
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Hahaha, she is correct!
I actually have another album of instrumental music dropping on 2 February 2024, and it includes “FRANTIC!!” In a way, that will blend together these different shorter compositions. But I also would like to take snippets of some of these shorter tunes and put them together into longer works. Most of these mini-miniatures are the most basic ideas, and almost all of them could be fleshed out into longer pieces.
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Wow! You definitely captured that feeling here ! : )
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Haha, thanks, Stacey!
I was trying to get in touch with you. Your poem “Updrafting” inspired this piano solo: https://www.noteflight.com/music/titles/d2b7cff8-7376-437e-a59f-a80c7ce5f124
I tried posting it as a comment on your blog, but it didn’t seem to take. Hopefully that link will work and you can hear the piece. I’d love to know what you think!
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Wow, Tyler! What an honor! Thank you for taking the time to share that with me! (I, too, have noticed sometimes when I try to share links in comments they don’t take) Play on! : )
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I hope it did your poem justice. Thanks for the inspiration!
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