The name's Knightly. Daley Knightly, Agent o-oh-Oh-OH=wAo=! This is my theme.
I'm counting this as a new December 2024 version (the original was November 2003) as I've taken out the Jazz Bossa w Organ Solo as it was too long and not eventful enough and I've replaced it with the Scroll Funky Blues Organ, plus the Ten Step Bluesy Ctry Boogie Solo guitar solo, that backed up part way through with 2 pedal steel guitars, Sun Down Train-beat Pop w Solo and Atmosphere Chillout.
Cast in order of appearance: Drums ~ Nashville Radio Power Ballad ~ Miles McPherson Bass ~ Dreamy Pop Quintet ~ Tobin Frank Organ ~ Dreamy Pop Quintet & Country Rock Guit' So' Pop Ba hybr' ~ Gene Rabbai Guitar2 ~ Country Rock Guitar Solo Pop Band ~ Darin Favorite Guitars 2&3 ~ Nashville Radio Power Ballad ~ Danny Rader Tabla ~ Tab Tabla Pop ~ Shobhit Banwait Marimba ~ Key Island Groove Quartet ~ Todd London Horns ~ Groove Soul Funky Horns ~ Chris West Organ2 Solo ~ Scroll Funky Blues Organ ~ Charles Treadway 1st Guitar Solo: Ten Step Bluesy Ctry Boogie Solo ~ Eddy Dunlap 1st Pedal Steel: Sun Down Train-beat Pop w Solo ~ Eddy Dunlap 2nd Pedal Steel: Atmosphere Chillout ~ Eddy Dunlap 2nd Guitar Solo ~ Modern Groove Soloist, Brit Rock (hybrid x 4) ~ Dave Cleveland
144 bars; 4/4, Em; 105bps; time 5:40
Some favourite Waoist Adages: #1: Play on the Way. #13: Ask not for whom the flower blooms, it blooms for you. #58: Bring consciousness to it. #63: On the road to effortlessness, effort must be made. #92: Be Love Now, the rest will come on its own.
Really interesting “tapestry” or “quilt” that you have waved from the BIAB toolkit! I was very impressed with the many different soloists and how you kept the driving rhythm going during the whole track. My only recommendation would be this: it’s great material, over a long listening period. It can be a little exhausting to stay “tuned in” to get all the little details. If it were me, I would insert somewhere a “break” in the thick texture—maybe just a couple of bars of something like guitar-and-bass with no drums. That way the listener can “rest” for a moment..then resume with the lush thickness. Just my opinion. Great work!
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As always, an interesting listen... The horns are nicely done. I like the bite of that organ. Sounds like he means business. Some cool guitar stuff happening.
Chay, nicely done! Cool movement around your central theme. All of the parts have super smooth transitions in and out, and the featured soloists sit nicely in the mix. You really have quite fine arrangement skills, and the finished product just shines.
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Man, you are an extraordinariy creative person, Chay. And BiaB is the perfect tool in your hands, giving you all kinds of options. You are so good at these compositions and you display them with some intriguing images in your videos. I gotta know... you're not just dropping in RTs right out of the Box. I mean, other than making them sound so good in the mix, what are you doing in BiaB to get these players so "in-tune" with the song?
Enjoy whatever happens! marty
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Really interesting “tapestry” or “quilt” that you have waved from the BIAB toolkit! I was very impressed with the many different soloists and how you kept the driving rhythm going during the whole track. My only recommendation would be this: it’s great material, over a long listening period. It can be a little exhausting to stay “tuned in” to get all the little details. If it were me, I would insert somewhere a “break” in the thick texture—maybe just a couple of bars of something like guitar-and-bass with no drums. That way the listener can “rest” for a moment..then resume with the lush thickness. Just my opinion. Great work!
Thanks for listening and responding, Tano Music. I'm aware that some posters are sensitive re track lengths and that some commenters like yourself address such, but for me it's simply a matter of personal taste and most of my posts are longer than average, in part because I like listening to playlists with long tracks in them - I can name numerous much longer tracks than any of mine in popular music from the 60s onwards - but also in part because the chord structure demands such. Once I have my chord structure sorted, the tempo, etc, I mostly repeat what PG music call the chords' "chorus" 3 times as I like to have a beginning, a middle and an end, though it depends on the chord structure itself. I have a very few which are only 2 choruses and 2 which are ambitious 4 choruses. You suggested inserting a break somewhere, but that would change the dynamic of the whole piece and would make it longer, or if chords were deleted to make room for a break then it would end up entirely different. So it all depends on the chord structure itself as to whether or not breaks add or detract. As said re track lengths it's predominantly down to personal taste, an example being that lovers of classical music like very long pieces, plus some classic soundtrack tracks are a lot longer that what one hears on the radio, but nothing would be served by shortening them. I don't know if you're familiar with Sibelius's "Night Ride and Sunrise" which is in 2 parts and around 16 minutes long, but I can easily see that if I created something the same length which was as good and posted it here many would say, "Whoah, Chay, that's way too long! You should entirely cut out the 1st half!" Ditto Blood, Seat & Tears' "Blues Part II" at almost 12 minutes long.
Some favourite Waoist Adages: #1: Play on the Way. #13: Ask not for whom the flower blooms, it blooms for you. #58: Bring consciousness to it. #63: On the road to effortlessness, effort must be made. #92: Be Love Now, the rest will come on its own.
Chay, You have some of the most interesting instrumentals. They are always so full of layers and rhythmic nuances. As always, an outstanding mix. Enjoyed! Bob
Thanks for the great response, Bob. Re the layers, etc, a friend recently told me that I don't arrange tracks I orchestrate them. Obviously the 2 are the same, but while if I was playing in a band all instruments would play throughout, sung song or instrumental, my approach, thanks purely to BiaB's immense catalogue of samples, is to use instruments for effect where they're needed and not where they're not. In this track there's no need for the horns except where they are, plus to add to the dynamic I introduce 2 pedals steel guitars to back up the 1st guitar solo, the 1st only in for about 36 seconds at the end, and the 2nd only in for 13 seconds, and they make a big difference.
Some favourite Waoist Adages: #1: Play on the Way. #13: Ask not for whom the flower blooms, it blooms for you. #58: Bring consciousness to it. #63: On the road to effortlessness, effort must be made. #92: Be Love Now, the rest will come on its own.
Hi, Chay. The marimba was an inspired choice. The crunchy boogie guitar worked well, too.
Thanks for the comment, David. Yes re the marimba - a definite spy feel there - but also the tabla for the same effect.
Some favourite Waoist Adages: #1: Play on the Way. #13: Ask not for whom the flower blooms, it blooms for you. #58: Bring consciousness to it. #63: On the road to effortlessness, effort must be made. #92: Be Love Now, the rest will come on its own.
Chay, As always, an interesting listen... The horns are nicely done. I like the bite of that organ. Sounds like he means business. Some cool guitar stuff happening. fj
Thanks for the response, Floyd. Yes that new organ and the following new guitar replacing what was just a single different organ solo has made a vast amount of difference to the whole track.
Some favourite Waoist Adages: #1: Play on the Way. #13: Ask not for whom the flower blooms, it blooms for you. #58: Bring consciousness to it. #63: On the road to effortlessness, effort must be made. #92: Be Love Now, the rest will come on its own.
Good Theme song and the video was a masterful production. Enjoyed the song and video Charlie
Thanks for listening and commenting, Charlie. I'm glad you liked my video images. They're all 2D renders of 3D models - with some you only see the 3D perspective when viewing them at a distance - and many took as long to create as I spend on a BiaB instrumental, though I now have a collection of well over 300 as I've been doing 3D modelling for the last 12 years. The original size of each 8:5 ratio image is 4000 x 2500 pixels (10 million total) as some make good wall art. 8:5 is the closest I can get in even figures to the golden ratio, but I also do other sizes such as 16:9 & 6:4. Some 8:5 I can crop to 16:9 for a better video fit, but it's mostly not possible.
Some favourite Waoist Adages: #1: Play on the Way. #13: Ask not for whom the flower blooms, it blooms for you. #58: Bring consciousness to it. #63: On the road to effortlessness, effort must be made. #92: Be Love Now, the rest will come on its own.
Chay, nicely done! Cool movement around your central theme. All of the parts have super smooth transitions in and out, and the featured soloists sit nicely in the mix. You really have quite fine arrangement skills, and the finished product just shines.
Thanks for the positive response, Ron. See my reply above to Bob Dean.
Some favourite Waoist Adages: #1: Play on the Way. #13: Ask not for whom the flower blooms, it blooms for you. #58: Bring consciousness to it. #63: On the road to effortlessness, effort must be made. #92: Be Love Now, the rest will come on its own.
Thanks for listening and commenting, Elliott. Always appreciated.
Some favourite Waoist Adages: #1: Play on the Way. #13: Ask not for whom the flower blooms, it blooms for you. #58: Bring consciousness to it. #63: On the road to effortlessness, effort must be made. #92: Be Love Now, the rest will come on its own.
Very nice intro. Beautiful percussions. Great organ solo. Bravo Laurent
Thanks for responding Laurent. Yes that new organ solo is a big improvement on the original.
Some favourite Waoist Adages: #1: Play on the Way. #13: Ask not for whom the flower blooms, it blooms for you. #58: Bring consciousness to it. #63: On the road to effortlessness, effort must be made. #92: Be Love Now, the rest will come on its own.
Man, you are an extraordinariy creative person, Chay. And BiaB is the perfect tool in your hands, giving you all kinds of options. You are so good at these compositions and you display them with some intriguing images in your videos. I gotta know... you're not just dropping in RTs right out of the Box. I mean, other than making them sound so good in the mix, what are you doing in BiaB to get these players so "in-tune" with the song?
Thanks, Marty! Re your question at the end, I'd need to write an essay to reply in full. I've considered writing one to explain my process from start to finish as I orchestrate each piece, only having some instruments in where they're needed and not elsewhere, plus I have a system for gathering as many samples as I can, particularly for the solos, and more and more often now I'm having to cut and paste sections from different regenerations to get what I want. I've just finished my 1st new instrumental of 2025 but the tempo and chord structure didn't lend itself to solos at all, so the 1st not very long solo was pieced together using 7 sections from 5 regenerations, and the 2nd shorter solo is of 4 sections from 4 samples. Only the 3rd solo was magic on it's own, starting on the same note as the previous sample. Sometimes it's pure fluke, such as in the above track's transition from the organ to the 1st guitar solo. I'm always surprised when 1st generations are perfect, but also when samples I think will be perfect just don't work and sound horrible!
Some favourite Waoist Adages: #1: Play on the Way. #13: Ask not for whom the flower blooms, it blooms for you. #58: Bring consciousness to it. #63: On the road to effortlessness, effort must be made. #92: Be Love Now, the rest will come on its own.
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