A Note From the Composer:
It was during the summer of 2015 that I began to compose music (or at least, began trying), and this mainly consisted of me fumbling at the piano, trying to figure out how the heck I was supposed to write a good melody. It looked something like this: I hit random keys on the piano until a few magic notes happened to sound one right after the other, giving me the idea of a somewhat-plausible start to what could eventually become a melody (honestly, not much has changed in my process at the piano since). During one of these instances, I found the notes C, D, and Eb, followed by a longer G. I repeated the first three notes, this time followed by an F#. That sounded kind of cool. I could picture it being something bigger, fuller – a larger piece. So you know what I did? Nothing. I was a new composer, and I didn’t know what to do with it then. But a year or two later, I started making it into a string orchestra piece and couldn’t resist adding some percussion instruments to it (gotta give it some spice, ya’ know?). But I still didn’t finish it. Finally, after it sat in the digital filing cabinet for four long years, I took it back out and finally completed what is now Stallion. For such a fast, non-stop, energy-filled piece, it (or more accurately, I) was quite the slowpoke in completing it.
