FWIW, I've never used a style in the many genres that we've worked with. I just prefer to start with a blank slate, choose my key, tempo and pick my RT's. I move everything into a DAW and to me that's where the work begins. I'll frequently use a dozen or more regenerations of one RT and cut/splice them into the fills and solos I want. Frequently, for example, I might have 6 or more splices in one 12 bar blues solo. I'm relatively new at this but my approach is to create a solo that hints at the melody as much as possible or at the very least doesn't distract from it.

I come from years of bluegrass/blues/alt country and thus have worked mostly with acoustic RT's until fairly recently. I've been working lately with some country/country pop/jazzish/western swing endeavors on which I've begun to use electric instruments and drums. Floyd has helped me enormously on these types of productions and I'm becoming a bit more comfortable with them.

I find the correct selection of drums and the cutting/splicing of electric instruments to be much more challenging...but that's likley due to my lack of experience with them not, I think, due to any inherent difficulty with the RTs. I spent thirty years playing bass in bluegrass and occasional blues groups and BIAB has allowed me after all these years to bring some of my ideas for other genres to fruition. I had some studio experience over the years and the amount of time we spent to produce what I can do on my iMac in relatively short order is mind boggling.


Last edited by Janice & Bud; 10/01/13 07:02 PM.
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