I'm posting this remix of my 1st instrumental of this year as it came about thanks to criticisms in this forum mainly from Al-David, Floyd Jane, TuneMonger and B.D, Thomas, all of whom said the same thing about the B3 organ essentially being too loud throughout. So I changed the organ from the 'Country Rock Guitar Solo, Pop Ba' style to the ': Giddy Up Country Ballad w Organ' and it does work way better.
To repeat from my earlier post, the 1st guitar solo is a hybrid cut and pasted together from 7 snippets from 5 different regenerations of the style; and the 2nd shorter guitar solo is a hybrid of snippets from 6 different regenerations. … I've now also edited that hybrid sample in order to even out the different volumes of the cut-n-pasted phrases.
Cast in order of appearance: Bass: Oleo Bop w/ Acoustic Bass ~ Neil Swainson Drums: Oleo Bop w/ Acoustic Bass ~ Craig Scott 1st Piano: Oleo Bop w/ Acoustic Bass ~ uncredited Acoustic Guitar: 3 Guitar Country Rock ~ Tony King Organ: Giddy Up Country Ballad w Organ -- Blair Masters 2nd Piano: Slow Jazz Rock w Soloist ~ Jeff Lorber 1st Guitar Solo: East Dock Latin Fusion Gtr Solo ~ Brent Mason 2nd Guitar Solo: Bricks Indie Rock w Guitar Solo ~ Mike Durham Electro Flute: ElectroFlute Pop Ballad ~ Miles Black Synth Pads: Whales LSS Synth Pads 1&2 ~ Blair Mastters Fiddle: Fidget Bluesy Pop with Fiddle ~ Andy Leftwich
C / 85 bpm / 112 bars/ time: 5:27
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Chay, Sounds great. EXCELLENT mix! I like that choice of organ. Great work as usual. Bob
Much appreciated, Bob! Yes, Switching to the Giddy Up organ resally made a postive difference, the previous one too harsh.
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, Sounds good. Bass is special. Nice guitar and sax. Mix is clear. fj
Thanks Floyd, and thank you for being one of those who made me change the orgn!
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, even though I didn't mind the original organ I must say this is much better. Outstanding bass line Super guitar leads That fiddle was great Great mix I think this is your best to date Loved it
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Chay, even though I didn't mind the original organ I must say this is much better. Outstanding bass line Super guitar leads That fiddle was great Great mix I think this is your best to date Loved it
Thanks Mario ~ agree re the fiddle! Though not about my best to date, which you graciously so often write! How about this ancient Zen koan which I first came across way back in 1974: A guy goes to a fishmonger and says, "Give me the best piece of fish you have", and the fishmonger replies, "It's all the best!"
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.
This is one of those rare mellow tunes that grabs your interest from the get go to the end. The BiaB session guys, the guitar track comping up, the arrangement and the subtle dynamics in the open/airy mix all contribute to that.
And yeah the organ track fits in nicely.
Well done!
J&B
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This is one of those rare mellow tunes that grabs your interest from the get go to the end. The BiaB session guys, the guitar track comping up, the arrangement and the subtle dynamics in the open/airy mix all contribute to that. And yeah the organ track fits in nicely. Well done! J&B
Thanks, J&B! The odd, but I suppose not uncommon thing, is that I never ever spotted that the original B3 organ was way too loud - probably because I was concentrating on the other stems - until folk on the forum mentioned it. Once I was aware of it I didn't want it in at all and although the new organ isn't that noticeable it was exactly what was needed.
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.
Nice mellow mix. Could've been a mess with all those tracks, but you molded the clay properly and the results speak for themselves.
Thanks, Bob (though I thought you were Hans! The track numbers are quite modest for me! There are 3 solos and the electro flute only comes in twice, so there's only drums, bass, rhythm guitar, organ, 2 pianos and 1 track of synth-pads in the rhythm section. Very modest!
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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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