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Rhythm King

If you are as old as I am you may remember the Maestro Rhythm King. It was one of if not the first drum machine in the 1960s.. It had awful sounding drums and even worse rhythms as well as a foot pedal to make it start and stop on a dime. If you are not familiar with it see and hear it here:



Anyway my good friend BobH was over Sunday and we put on a short drum machine loop as a click track and jammed to it. BobH came up with a great guitar track that fit the repetitiveness of the drum machine so we thought why not make a song out of it. So we added our own parts to the drum track and hopefully spiced it up enough so it wasn't so redundant.

BiaB Style = Awaken2 - Slow Meditative New Age
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I deleted the guitar track
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Utility track - EastWest play - Symphonic Choir - preset Full Choir

Bob is playing the rhythm track on my SX Tele guitar.
I am playing the lead and harmony on my Harley Benton fake Gretsch guitar and via my keyboard and breath controller the Swam Tenor Sax. All three went through Amplitube.

As always all comments are welcomed.


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Nice job, Mario and Bob! I just finished walking and feeding my 3 dogs their breakfast. This is the first thing I'm listening to. What a cool way to start off the morning.


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Cool track, Mario, nice instrumental bed and I like the melody and harmony parts you came up with on the guitar. Sax sounds good too.

I don't remember that particular drum machine, but I had a much simpler drum machine from Maestro many years ago, called the Rhythm Jester, early 70's maybe. Fun times! wink

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Man, I learned a lot about drums by programing drum machines. Ringo was an amazing time-keeper.

You and Bob have great sessions. Must be a blast! Man, that's some fine "sax" playing. Very moody tune. Sometimes slow beats are harder to keep than faster ones. Good thing you had that drum machine to keep you on track. wink Keep jammin'.


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Very cool, dreamy song! Doesn't sound redundant in the least. You provided a lot of interest around the theme. I was surprised it ended so abruptly. Thought this would just drift off like a dream...

Ha! Great job on all live instruments, and good on you for keeping your vintage gear in play. It all sounds super!


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Originally Posted by TheMaartian
Nice job, Mario and Bob! I just finished walking and feeding my 3 dogs their breakfast. This is the first thing I'm listening to. What a cool way to start off the morning.

Thanx so much for taking the time to listen and comment on this jam.

Originally Posted by BlueAttitude
Cool track, Mario, nice instrumental bed and I like the melody and harmony parts you came up with on the guitar. Sax sounds good too.

I don't remember that particular drum machine, but I had a much simpler drum machine from Maestro many years ago, called the Rhythm Jester, early 70's maybe. Fun times! wink

Thanx Dave.

I think the Rhythm King was the first from Maestro and yours was a later model.


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Originally Posted by BabuMusic
Man, I learned a lot about drums by programing drum machines. Ringo was an amazing time-keeper.

You and Bob have great sessions. Must be a blast! Man, that's some fine "sax" playing. Very moody tune. Sometimes slow beats are harder to keep than faster ones. Good thing you had that drum machine to keep you on track. wink Keep jammin'.

Marty, yes Ringo was a human drum machine as always kept perfect time.

Yes Bob and I do have a blast jamming. We started using the drum machine so we could not only keep in time, we do have a knack for wandering, but also so we could bring them into BiaB and possibly post them.

Thanx for this very kind review.


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Originally Posted by DC Ron
Very cool, dreamy song! Doesn't sound redundant in the least. You provided a lot of interest around the theme. I was surprised it ended so abruptly. Thought this would just drift off like a dream...

Ha! Great job on all live instruments, and good on you for keeping your vintage gear in play. It all sounds super!

Thanx Ron. It ended so abruptly because that was the way those old drum machines stopped. I though ending it like that added some realism.

I do have some vintage gear but a drum machine is not one of them. What you heard was from UVI Workstation , a soft synth using bank Prime 8+ and the preset called Clean Frank, weird name for a preset isn't it!

I'm glad that you enjoyed it.


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Cool bit of retro music.

Love the FX, which helps create the atmosphere. And you fooled me with the SWAM sax!

You can find other classic rhythm machines here: https://www.rhythmicrobot.com/beat-room


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Originally Posted by dcuny
Cool bit of retro music.

Love the FX, which helps create the atmosphere. And you fooled me with the SWAM sax!

You can find other classic rhythm machines here: https://www.rhythmicrobot.com/beat-room

Thanx David. I did realize there were so many drum machines! I never used drum machines on a song until I got the UVI software. I always just looped a BiaB drum track. Back when I was gigging I would never use a drum machine.


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I love this man, you guys did superb.

As for the "stone age" drum machine, thanks for sharing. I never heard of that thing.
There's definately value in history, it gives one a grounded perspective and an appreciation of the technology we have today.


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Originally Posted by Bass Thumper
I love this man, you guys did superb.

As for the "stone age" drum machine, thanks for sharing. I never heard of that thing.
There's definately value in history, it gives one a grounded perspective and an appreciation of the technology we have today.

Thanx Steve.

I hear ya. I wish I had half the tools to make music today when I was gigging. When I was gigging I used a Casio Strat MIDI guitar controller and three tone generators and my long time friend had three synths for his keyboards but the sounds back then were no where as good as the sounds today. But I had fun back then and I am having fun today so that's all that matters.


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This is really cool and inventive tune. The King is used in such a way that I didn't pay any attention to the quality of its sound, thanks for sharing the information about that "beast".

The chord progression is very unique and mysterious, great effects on the guitars, the sax adds enjoyable warmth. Other synth sounds are a treasure chest in this electro-ambient-jazz wonderland, reminding me of a Finnish band called RinneRadio.

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Mario,

Now that is cool... You guys sound like you have discovered a Time Machine back to the early 60s...

Great, great stuff.

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Cool stuff, Mario.
That sax is impressive.

Old is New again.
Lucky for us
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Originally Posted by jannesan
This is really cool and inventive tune. The King is used in such a way that I didn't pay any attention to the quality of its sound, thanks for sharing the information about that "beast".

The chord progression is very unique and mysterious, great effects on the guitars, the sax adds enjoyable warmth. Other synth sounds are a treasure chest in this electro-ambient-jazz wonderland, reminding me of a Finnish band called RinneRadio.

Janne

Thanx so much Janne for this wonderful review. I tried to mix the drum machine like they mixed drums back in the 1960's. They were mixed a lot quieter than they are mixed today.


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Originally Posted by rsdean
Mario,

Now that is cool... You guys sound like you have discovered a Time Machine back to the early 60s...

Great, great stuff.

Bob

Thanx Bob. There are times I wish I could step into a Time Machine and travel back to the 60's.


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Originally Posted by floyd jane
Cool stuff, Mario.
That sax is impressive.

Old is New again.
Lucky for us
smile

fj

Thanx Floyd. Adding the breath controller with my keyboard opens up a lot of possibilities I don't have with my wind controller. There are a lot of VSTis that are replicating the old sounds.


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That's a really beautiful theme, Mario, and I love that recurring guitar phrase. Gorgeous!


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Cool, atmospheric retro sound done with retro stuff.
Very nerdy cool
I love it, Mario!


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