Classical Music Is NOT Scary - Transpose Ideas - ERIK SATIE - PART FOUR

Hi everyone. It's time for my last ''Classical Music Is NOT Scary''
post (for now) and I'm excited to write about the guy it all started with.

First of all, if you're interested in reading about combining Beethoven,
Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky with pop music, feel free to check out
PART ONE, TWO & THREE of this series here:
https://steemit.com/music/@grobens/classical-music-is-not-scary-combining-classical-and-pop-themes-original-song-included
https://steemit.com/music/@grobens/classical-music-is-not-scary-the-rhythm-is-your-foundation-shostakovich-part-two
https://steemit.com/music/@grobens/classical-music-is-not-scary-use-everything-tchaikovsky-part-three-original-song

We've reached PART FOUR of the series and talking about Erik Satie is
the best way to summarize what I've been writing about so far.
Satie is undoubtedly the first pop musician among the classics.
The only other is probably Gershwin but not in the same sense or to the same extent.
Erik Satie wrote some of the most famous classical pieces for the piano,
the widely acclaimed ''Gymnopedies & Gnossiennes''.
However, at the time those pieces came about, the reception was terrible.
Many people didn't consider Satie to be a composer at all and his piano
skills were far below any of the most famous composers we think of
when we think of the piano. Satie was an outsider and his work was
considered to be almost an abomination in terms of competence
and technique. Satie himself said that he wasn't trying to compose classical
music for the piano, but rather to compose music to be played ''in the background''
which in turn makes him the grandfather of ambient music.
His most famous piece is by far ''Gnossienne No. 1''.

Today it's used in many movies, commercials and TV series and if
you go and check it out on Youtube, you'll find several videos of the song
with millions of views. It's a very simple piece but it has a lot of emotion;
it's sad, mysterious and beautiful but there's this feeling of being
ill at ease and it shifts from one mood to the next. Every time I listen
to it a think of an empty street after the rain. And it's basically a pop
song as it is, with a simple melody and a verse/chorus structure.
I wanted to make my own rendition of it ever since I first heard it.

It's a piano piece so my first choice was to CHANGE that.
I decided to TRANSPOSE Satie's piano idea into a different instrument
to get a different kind of emotion so I took the piano melody and
played it on low pizzicato strings and added my own bass notes
to convert it into a drone, put some extra strings on and some
eerie backing vocals. The vibe was similar to the original but it
had emphasized the ''ill at ease'' emotion of the song.
I wrote some lyrics that don't really mean anything becuase I didn't
want the lyrics to pull the attention away from the music.
When that was done, I had the idea of making it ''funky''.
Yes, funky. I added some funky guitars and a heavy electronic beat
and ended up with a totally different song. I probably like this one
the best because it kept the original ''mood'' of the piano piece
but there's not a single piano key in it. And it's funky.

Here's the result, feel free to comment and enjoy!