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Heavy Into It

from Arco 71 by Aaron Kerr

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The song title comes from just really enjoying something and wanting to do it a lot. This song is the best piece of music I've ever composed, and I get a lot of requests for it. This piece was a seminal work for me. Prior to writing this, my cello playing and composing were separate entities. I remember sitting down alone after work at the bookstore with my cello intending to practice scales, but feeling more creative than that. I had this little double-stop heavy rhythm in my head and proceeded to flesh it out. Within 15 minutes, I had completely written a perfect song that was incredibly fun to play. That one song brought everything together for me--I had found my voice. It took me two more weeks to compose the rest of the songs on my debut album, "Arco 71." I use a lot of extended techniques on this song, including col legno (hitting the strings with the wood of the bow), harmonics, slides, trills, and sul ponticello (playing close to the bridge)--or, as some say, "the samurai sound". I use all of these effects in my live playing, especially during the extended solo sections. Thanks to Randy Gildersleeve's suggestions, we added some additional tracks in the studio that were fantastic; such as beating the back of the cello with a drum mallet, and lowering the C string to get notes not normally on the cello.

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from Arco 71, released October 15, 2013
Aaron Kerr--cello

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