Episode 10: The Beautiful Lady
To Sir Elrod’s amazement the cloud contained a human form, and not just any human form, but that of a beautiful lady. Elrod just stood there, open mouthed and mesmerized by her face, the first female human face he had seen in the flesh in his short life. To Sir Elrod it seemed like hours had passed as he just stood there admiring the apparition, and he doubtless
would have stood there forever dumbfounded had not the lady had spoken to him:
“So you are Elrod Geare. Interesting. I had pictured you a bit younger and not so skinny.” Said the Lady. Elrod still could not speak. He just stood there, looking at her.
“Don’t you know how to speak? Has solitude robbed you of the gift of gab or are you dumb, in more ways than one!” The lady laughed and her laughter to Elrod was the most wonderful thing. It evoked in his mind visions of bells and birds singing like…, yes like a nightingale, he had seen a video of a nightingale singing and to him it sounded just like this beautiful lady. He closed his eyes and music rushed his brain and at that moment he wished he was in his little recording studio so he could put down the music of this magnificent vision with the aid of his wonderful black boxes. He closed his eyes and when he opened them again he was back in his little Dungeon Studio!
That startled Elrod a bit but not for long, there was no time to lose! There was wonderful music to record and he got down to work on it, momentarily forgetting about the Lady who had been the source of his inspiration. First he recorded a sketch of his song by playing his guitar and humming the melody into his recording software. Then, and only then, he noticed that the guitar he was using wasn’t his usual one, but a new Martin acoustic/electric. Thoughts of his adventures underground and of the Lady of the Martin insinuated themselves into his mind but he put them aside, afraid to lose his musical ideas. After making a sketch of his song, Elrod started fleshing it out with different instruments. He played a second guitar line, then added a bass and a basic drum track on his Roland V-Drums. Then he played a piano part on his keyboard and added some string pads. The arrangement was taking shape and Elrod like it, it felt good! Now time to add some loops for sweetening here and there, The little snipets of music put down by Ancient Music Masters and made available to Elrod as Cd-rom libraries came into play. A saxophone riff came to life and was added to the mix, then a brass section provided some stabs in just the right places. It was very much to Elrod’s liking and it was good, very good!
It wasn’t until several hours later than the arrangement for the song was finished. Elrod then listened. It totally met his approval and it was worthy of being stored away with the many others. Only after Elrod had put away the mix of his new song did he allow himself to think of what had happened and wished he was still in the cave. He needed to go back
to the vision of the Beautiful Lady.
TO BE CONTINUED!