For this composition I began with a new chord structure experiment, which I didn't think would work, but it not only did, this new instrumental has gone straight into my top 3 favourites.
Drums: Country Rock Guitar Solo, Pop Ba ~ Brian Fullen Bass Guitar: Bricks Indie Rock w Guitar Solo ~ Tobin Frank 1st Piano: Slow Jazz Rock w Soloist ~ Jeff Lorber 2nd Piano: East Dock Latin Fusion Gtr Solo ~ Jeff Lorber Rhythm Guitar: Slow Jazz Rock w Soloist ~ Andy Reiss Organ: Country Rock Guitar Solo, Pop Ba ~ Gene Rabbai Backing Vocals: Speakeasy Old Time Vocal Jazz ~ Britt Savage 1st, 3rd & 4th Guitar Solos: Bricks Indie Rock w Guitar Solo ~ Mike Durham Fiddle: Fidget Bluesy Pop with Fiddle ~ Andy Leftwich 2nd Guitar Solo: East Dock Latin Fusion Gtr Solo ~ Brent Mason
4/4 ~ C ~ 105 bpm ~ 128 bars ~ 5:03
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, this is really fun to listen to, and I agree that your new chord progression works really well. The jazz guitar interlude and backing vocals were nice BiaB touches that I've not noticed before. Think you're onto something here!
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This is a great piece of music. So much imagination and thought. Love the combination of instruments and the use of the Britt Savage vocals. Very inspired.
Oh, yeah, those changes worked brilliantly, Chay, The tune is so well developed with your creative use of the soloists. Yeah, this is one of my favorites, too. Everything sounds so well as if these folks have been playing this in clubs for years and finally had a chance to record. You know I really enjoy your videos and appreciate the work you do to make them so well.
Enjoy whatever happens! marty
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LOVE IT!!! You speaka my language! I love this type of rhythm and the build-up of the music after a cool intro. I usually overload my tunes with strings, cello, etc. but I just can't help it The video is really nice!
I began in 1970 with a 7 piece dance band. I had other bands, but my most successful one was "The four Windows", a 4 piece guitar band. Many concerts, TV shows, Record contract with EMI and a guitar hit in 1982 in Europe with my "Lonely Seagull".
Chay, this is really fun to listen to, and I agree that your new chord progression works really well. The jazz guitar interlude and backing vocals were nice BiaB touches that I've not noticed before. Think you're onto something here!
Thanks for the response, Ron! I'll explain the chords experiment I expected to fail in reply to Guitarhacker on the subject below.
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, This is a great piece of music. So much imagination and thought. Love the combination of instruments and the use of the Britt Savage vocals. Very inspired. Excellent mix as well! Bob
Thanks for the positive comments again, Bob. Very much 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.
Oh, yeah, those changes worked brilliantly, Chay, The tune is so well developed with your creative use of the soloists. Yeah, this is one of my favorites, too. Everything sounds so well as if these folks have been playing this in clubs for years and finally had a chance to record. You know I really enjoy your videos and appreciate the work you do to make them so well.
Marty, thanks the for the great response - on YT too. As I wrote to DC Ron above, I'll explain the chord changes below.
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, That Bass sounds great! Nice use of the e piano. Cool guitar solos. The fiddle fit nicely, too... fj
Thanks for listening and responding, Floyd. I agree re the bass, but what really pleasantly surprised me when experimenting with various solo possibilities was just how well that fiddle fit in. Although the Bricks guitar is the major soloist, without that smooth blend into the fiddle it wouldn't have been half as good.
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, what a great song you have produced. Loved that bass! Outstanding groove, instrumentation, and mix. IMHO this is your best to date.
As I wrote on the post, Mario, once the instrumental was completed I liked it so much that it went straight into my top 4 favourites, but when I compile a playlist I always like to leave my favourite tracks until last and what I found was that it flows better if it's played before 2 other tracks (Aurora V1: Night Turns Into Gold, and Sophia Loves V3). The other in my top 4 is "Quan Yin", but that's in a class of its own style-wise - definitely my most accomplished piece - and can't really be compared with other material.
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, Good effort here and I agree with all the previous comments about the production and instrumentation. Dewey
Thanks for listening and for the positive response, Dewey. Much 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.
That's some cool easy listening music. Using new chord progressions and experimenting is the way you grow as a composer and writer. The tracks are appropriate and sound really good. I like that smokey guitar.
Thanks for responding, Guitarhacker. BiaB has enabled an evolution in composing for me as in past decades I only wrote songs which I could sing in my limited vocal range, while now I experiment with chords I'd never have previously used. Each new instrumental has begun with an experiment, then once I've get the first 4-8 chords I just try oodles of variations for what follows. This time around I began with just 3 chords, the 1st 4 bars starting and ended with Cmaj7, then ditto bars 5-8, but after that I just got stuck. So although I didn't expect the next experiment to work I decided to make a note of all of my favourite chord changes I'd used in previous instrumentals and I ended up with 6 x 8 bar sets. As they were in various keys I transposed all to C, then experimented in sequentially placing them, with returns to the opening 8 bars, but I ended up with an 8 bar sequence left over. Not wanting to not use them I put them in as bars 57-72 and they just worked perfectly in the flow. In total I used 15 different chords, which is definitely a record for me, but the flow is so smooth and seemingly simple it would take a musical genius to spot that many outright.
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.
Hello Chay cool song Good use of BiaB The video brings out the song even more Very good work Andi ;-)
Thanks for listening, viewing and for the positive response, Andi. Much 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.
LOVE IT!!! You speaka my language! I love this type of rhythm and the build-up of the music after a cool intro. I usually overload my tunes with strings, cello, etc. but I just can't help it The video is really nice!
Thanks for listening, viewing and responding, Wolf. I'm so glad we speaka the same musical language!
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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