I'm an instrumental guitar player
I have a 100+ performance quality tracks I gig with regularly.
I built 98% of them in BIAB.
Most of them have bass, drums, and one or more comping (chording) instrument (piano,b3,rhodes,accordion,pedalsteel,marimba etc).

I generally play single note lines over the arrangements at the gig.
A common arrangement is the head, an improv chorus or two, the head,an outtro.
Simple stuff.

I now want to stretch out and create some bass & drum arrangement without the comping instruments.
Something that requires me to add some harmonies to my single note guitar playing.
Not necessarily chord melody guitar but something more than just single note lines.
Something that would work in a trio, or even a duo with just a bassist.

Naively I thought I could just use my existing performance arrangements.
I would simple mute the comping instruments, mix the levels of bass and drums and bounce out a new track to shed on .
Simple & easy, right ?.

Not really. Often the resulting bass & drum only arrangements are pretty terrible.
Not at all what I'm after
Amazing how the trio held it together.
Now I'm slogging through swapping out drummers/bassists, changing styles, etc.
Its a bit of a grind to be honest.

Wondering if anyone has been working on similar project and would welcome some collaboration.
My goal is performance level bass & drum arrangements that can work in a guitar (or piano, etc) trio.

I use biab Mac and Logic.
However the meat of the project effort is selecting the biab style & bass & drum tracks.
That could happen in either Mac or Win.
I use RealTracks but can certainly implement Midi if that makes sense.


Thanks in advance

Last edited by mrgeeze; 05/02/23 06:21 AM.
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