Consider It Done

Bass drum
Snare drum
Side stick
Crash cymbal
Ride cymbal
Maracas
Fretless bass
Jazz guitar (m7)
Jazz guitar (maj7)
Jazz guitar (11)
Muted trumpet

Composed by Rondo for the
oldskool music compo at
Assembly 2003.

Is it August already?
Time to dig the ol'
Impulse Tracker out of
the mothballs, I guess...

How lucky for me that
there happened to be a
jazz festival in my home
town a week before Asm,
for me that seems to be
a surefire way to get an
inspiration. What's not
so fortunate is that the
fruits born by that kind
of inspiration tend to be
more or less pure jazz,
which in turn seems to be
a surefire way to kill
your chances of achieving
even modest success in
your average major-party
music compo. On the other
hand, I did rank twelfth
last year with a really
weird acoustic guitar
duet, so who knows, maybe
this year will bring on
another surprise.

God, I hate working with
8-bit samples! The
trumpet ended up sounding
more like a bad saxophone
most of the time. Maybe I
should've learned to use
Fast Tracker so I could
have made an XM instead
of an S3M, but it's too
late for that now.
Besides, I'm already
having trouble trying to
squeeze this thing down
to 96K, so I'm not sure
how much good 16-bit
samples and instrument
support would do. I could
have saved some space in
pattern data by not
wasting all those loose-
end rows with the C00
commands, but I really
don't want to give up the
luxury of variable-length
patterns if I can at
least simulate them.

This must be the longest
song info I've ever
written entirely into the
sample list. Does anybody
ever even read these?
Well, if you were patient
enough to go through all
that junk, you might want
to drop me a line or two,
so here's my address:
ltuovine@tols17.oulu.fi

The title, by the way, is
due to a Sting song
titled Consider Me Gone,
which influenced this one
rather heavily. Up until
that freaky hard bop
sequence anyway...