After spending quite a while searching for the exactly right electric piano sound, I realised that the one I had used on Under A Binary Tree was the right one to use again. Time to create some soloing over the A - F - C# - A (rept) part of section 1.3.1 (electricity).
What I have created, I'm not sure about, there are parts which are played, there are parts which are programmed, and significantly there are parts with one hand of each. I'm a bit disappointed that the touch-sensitivity of the keyboard didn't seem to be working but hopefully I have got around that. What I have finally ended up with has some parts which are reasonably normal and hopefully nice and light and bouncy, and some parts which are complex and certainly unplayable by me, possibly unplayable by anyone apart from a mad genius. The bottom line though, does it work? Is it listenable and interesting? Time is the great judge of that - I need to let this one marinade for a while.
On a similar note, I seem to remember saying much the same thing about the opening to the whole thing, a series of splash cymbal hits. After some time has passed, the answer is an unequivocable (surely that's cannot be spelled right) "yes". I'd go so far as to say it is iconic - one of those unique startings that leave you in no doubt what you are starting to listen to.
back tot he current sub-section, what is left is a synth solo and some jiggery pokery to make the start work with the previous sub-section.
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