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SubscribeStar Saturday: Spooky Season III Preview, Part II

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Yours portly has been composing like a madman, and finished up Spooky Season III this past Wednesday, 25 September 2024.  It’ll be hitting Bandcamp and all streaming services (including Spotify for the first time in a year!) this Friday, 4 October 2024, which is also Bandcamp Friday.

It is a massive release:  eleven tracks in total, clocking in at around forty-one (41) minutes of music.  My goal was to move away from the super short compositions, and specifically to avoid any tracks under one minute.  Only two tracks are under two minutes in length, and those are just one and four seconds under.

Last week I previewed four tracks for subscribers (and one for my freeloading—uh, I mean, loyal—readers):  “Dancing in the Graveyard,” “Rain on Halloween,” “Curious Little Ghosties,” and “Boneyard Blues.”

This week, I’ll feature four more.  Here’s one for all of my readers to enjoy, the opening track:  “Heavy Metal Mummy”:

What other succulent tunes await?

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SubscribeStar Saturday: Spooky Season III Preview

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Today’s post is a SubscribeStar Saturday exclusive.  To read the full post, subscribe to my SubscribeStar page for $1 a month or more.  For a full rundown of everything your subscription gets, click here.

Yours portly is knee-deep in composing my next album, Spooky Season III.  As of right now, I’ve completed seven of around ten or eleven planned tracks, and it’s shaping up to be much longer than my other releases.  In fact, I’ve already run out of space on Bandcamp for “extras” for the album.  Those “extras” are things like artwork, PDF scores, and videos, and it’s that last category that is taking up a great deal of space.

So I thought I’d give subscribers a bit of a preview of some of the material I’ve been writing.

Don’t worry, my freebie readers:  I’m going to share a piece with you, too, and note that all of these videos will be up on YouTube in October (so subscribe—it’s free!—to my YouTube channel and ring the bell if you want to get notified when those pop in a few weeks).

Here is the first piece I composed for the album, “Dancing in the Graveyard”; I composed it between 3-4 September 2024, according to my notes and information on Noteflight:

“Dancing in the Graveyard” is a playful oboe and bassoon with option tambora accompaniment. It’s a lively waltz in concert D minor.

I’m really loving composing this album, and I enjoy all of the tracks—and I hope you will, too!—but I’m keen to share some of my personal favorites.

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