I am Enough - Beef’d UP (2023)

difficulty: medium

duration: ca. 7’00

instrumentation: symphonic band

I am Enough-Beef’d Up! is unlimitedly what I would call the remix of I am Enough and Big Mad. While composing I am Enough and Big Mad, two commissions geared towards two young bands, I was met with many challenges and found myself making a lot of edits to fit those groups. I was in a constant struggle with still wanting my music to be worth playing and worth listening to by all parties. However, with my fixation with music production, I knew right away that I couldn’t let this cool content go to waste. So therefore, I was going to remix the two works and build a suite that will aim more at advanced players.

While I am Enough and Big Mad sounds demanding, I am Enough-Beef’d Up! elaborates upon the two works with brighter tempo markings, extended ranges in varies instruments, but more importantly with advance rhythmic notation. Hence, the word in the title… “beef’d up”! There is a heavy use of broken eight note and quarter note triplet figures. Despite these and many more differences between the two works, both are cut from the same cloth, using the same source of inspiration, and ultimately composed simultaneously.  

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