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Rum On The Beach While sitting in your lounge chair on a Caribbean beach, listening to a local band while drinking a rum and coke you say this is paradise. BiaB style - Festejo- All MIDI Latin Pop Tempo - 85 BPM Bass - Amplebass - Upright Piano - Lounge Lizard - tine - Studio Tine Guitar - Kontakt - Picked Nylon - Melody Drums - SSD-5 - Deluxe Raggae Percussion - Kontakt - various presets I am playing the nylon string guitar and via my keyboard the Marimba - Kontakt - PSI Marimba. As always all comments are welcomed.
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Hi, Mario. I hear Mr. MIDI-isn't-dead is at it again!  Nice mood setter!
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Mario,
Love the carefree and breezy feel of this one. The guitar and marimba sound great. Awesome mix!
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Cool, relaxing groove and good to hear marimba as a melody instrument.
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"I am playing the nylon string guitar and via my keyboard the Marimba" And a great job you did. Your description is easily visualized by the band choice. Really cool. And we always love your open, airy mixes. Feel like we are sitting dead center in the front row.  Nice! J&B
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Huh. Never heard the marimba played on a keyboard. Gosh, that sounds GREAT! Really nice playing on the nylon string guitar, too. Is there anything you CAN'T do?? Super composition/arrangement and nicely mixed. Amazin' stuff.
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Very pleasant and enjoyable listen. I especially appreciated the interesting chord changes and you're nylon-string guitar track.
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Heck, I thought Rum was Jamaican for beach. I like how you drop out each note of the melody as if from a leaky bottle of rum as you walk on the beach searching for a good spot. I've sat on that lounge chair you mention. A lot of good memories and many of them now are forgotten memories. Hey, there's a title: Forgotten Memories.
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Hi, Mario. I hear Mr. MIDI-isn't-dead is at it again! Nice mood setter! Thanx David. I doubt MIDI will never die 
Whenever I get something stuck in the back of my throat, I dislodge it by drinking a beer.
It's called the Heineken Maneuver.
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Mario,
Love the carefree and breezy feel of this one. The guitar and marimba sound great. Awesome mix!
Bob Thanx so much Bob. Cool, relaxing groove and good to hear marimba as a melody instrument. Thanx Chay. I do like the sound of a marimba, almost as much as I like the sound of Vibes.
Whenever I get something stuck in the back of my throat, I dislodge it by drinking a beer.
It's called the Heineken Maneuver.
64 bit Win 10 Pro, the latest BiaB/RB, Roland Octa-Capture audio interface, a ton of software/hardware
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"I am playing the nylon string guitar and via my keyboard the Marimba" And a great job you did. Your description is easily visualized by the band choice. Really cool. And we always love your open, airy mixes. Feel like we are sitting dead center in the front row. Nice! J&B Thanx Janice and Bud. I appreciate your comments.
Whenever I get something stuck in the back of my throat, I dislodge it by drinking a beer.
It's called the Heineken Maneuver.
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Huh. Never heard the marimba played on a keyboard. Gosh, that sounds GREAT! Really nice playing on the nylon string guitar, too. Is there anything you CAN'T do?? Super composition/arrangement and nicely mixed. Amazin' stuff. Thanx Ron. There are a lot of things that I can't do, just ask my wife 
Whenever I get something stuck in the back of my throat, I dislodge it by drinking a beer.
It's called the Heineken Maneuver.
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Very pleasant and enjoyable listen. I especially appreciated the interesting chord changes and you're nylon-string guitar track. Thanx Tom for noticing the chord progression and for that very nice guitar comment.
Whenever I get something stuck in the back of my throat, I dislodge it by drinking a beer.
It's called the Heineken Maneuver.
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Heck, I thought Rum was Jamaican for beach. I like how you drop out each note of the melody as if from a leaky bottle of rum as you walk on the beach searching for a good spot. I've sat on that lounge chair you mention. A lot of good memories and many of them now are forgotten memories. Hey, there's a title: Forgotten Memories. Thanx Marty. I'm sure you will come up with another masterpiece about forgotten memories.
Whenever I get something stuck in the back of my throat, I dislodge it by drinking a beer.
It's called the Heineken Maneuver.
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Nice one Mario! Quite a few things I love about this one:
- the run down and walk up on the nylon string guitar
- marimba … from a keyboard? Who would’ve thunk it
- the left and right effect in my ear buds - it mimicked a Leslie speaker
- the chord progression as Tom said. I thought I heard a minor to major change in there, and also a couple of diminished chords? Nice!
If my wife asks if I exercised today, I can tell her I had a rum on the beach.
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Cool stuff... Nothing like a good Caribbean groove.
I've got a friend who's a rum aficionado. My expertise is not with rum.
You can find my music at: www.herbhartley.comAdd nothing that adds nothing to the music. You can make excuses or you can make progress but not both. The magic you are looking for is in the work you are avoiding.
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I misread the title at first – I thought it said "Run On The Beach" – a good, healthy exercise.
Then, when I found the reference to imbibing rum, it suddenly clicked – it's a drinking song – and it's not the kind of exercise one can do while running because you spill too much.
There's a lot to like here, Mario. From the well-chosen sounds to the cleverly deceptive chord progression that tricked me a regular intervals, moving in totally different directions than those I had anticipated. A very interesting experience. Well done.
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Nice one Mario! Quite a few things I love about this one:
- the run down and walk up on the nylon string guitar
- marimba … from a keyboard? Who would’ve thunk it
- the left and right effect in my ear buds - it mimicked a Leslie speaker
- the chord progression as Tom said. I thought I heard a minor to major change in there, and also a couple of diminished chords? Nice!
If my wife asks if I exercised today, I can tell her I had a rum on the beach.
Good one!
Andrew Thanx so much Andrew for this very kind review. Maj7 chords - yes, m11 chords - yes, diminished chords - yes. You have a very good ear!
Whenever I get something stuck in the back of my throat, I dislodge it by drinking a beer.
It's called the Heineken Maneuver.
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Cool stuff... Nothing like a good Caribbean groove.
I've got a friend who's a rum aficionado. My expertise is not with rum. Thanx so much Herb. My expertise is not rum either. But I do like a good beer!
Whenever I get something stuck in the back of my throat, I dislodge it by drinking a beer.
It's called the Heineken Maneuver.
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I misread the title at first – I thought it said "Run On The Beach" – a good, healthy exercise.
Then, when I found the reference to imbibing rum, it suddenly clicked – it's a drinking song – and it's not the kind of exercise one can do while running because you spill too much.
There's a lot to like here, Mario. From the well-chosen sounds to the cleverly deceptive chord progression that tricked me a regular intervals, moving in totally different directions than those I had anticipated. A very interesting experience. Well done. Thanx so much Brian. Running with rum is not advisable as spilling it is alcohol abuse. I'm glad that you liked it.
Whenever I get something stuck in the back of my throat, I dislodge it by drinking a beer.
It's called the Heineken Maneuver.
64 bit Win 10 Pro, the latest BiaB/RB, Roland Octa-Capture audio interface, a ton of software/hardware
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