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Soulfull Jazz I'm just having a little fun with this one. BiaB style - Slow Soul - Smooth jazz - Soulful Tempo - 65 BPM Bass - Ample Bass - Upright Drums - Steven Slates ' SSD-5 - Deluxe Country 1 Percussion - Kontakt - Indiginus Brio Piano - Lounge Lizard - Tine - Lavire Guitar- Kontakt - SoundProps - Direct 335 V2 Strings - Kontakt - Amadeus - Full String Ensemble I am playing the lead guitar and via my breath and keyboard controller the Swam trumpet.
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Mario,
This sounds excellent. I especially love the Swam trumpet - so smooth... Some wonderful guitar lines and a great mix!
Loved it all!
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Nice progression, laid back, just what the doctor ordered today. Thanks for posting your BiaB band with you playing, you should take it busking.
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Man, that trumpet sounds GREAT! Very nice jazzbox work, too. Those strings make a nifty backdrop, and the whole band is very cohesive and oh-so-cool. Are those handclaps on the 2 and 4 over the last section? Made for a nice change of pace as the tune wound down.
Super job!
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I am sold on that Swam sample, and some nice note choices by you. Good, natural sounding vibrato (at least to my ears, somebody like Miles Davis might disagree). Volume is low again for me, this was the only track I listened to today where I had to turn up the volume knob quite a bit. I'm glad you're not part of the volume wars, though.
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Really nice Mario!
I love this kind of stuff. Extremely ear-wormy and soothing.
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Mario,
This sounds excellent. I especially love the Swam trumpet - so smooth... Some wonderful guitar lines and a great mix!
Loved it all!
Bob Thanx Bob. I appreciate your kind words. I really like those Swam instruments, costly but worth it.
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Nice progression, laid back, just what the doctor ordered today. Thanks for posting your BiaB band with you playing, you should take it busking.
Donny G Thanx Donny. No busking for me. My arthritic hands do allow me to play very long. Plus I did a lot of gigging in my day but now I am happily retired.
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Man, that trumpet sounds GREAT! Very nice jazzbox work, too. Those strings make a nifty backdrop, and the whole band is very cohesive and oh-so-cool. Are those handclaps on the 2 and 4 over the last section? Made for a nice change of pace as the tune wound down.
Super job! Thanx Ron. That was not my jazzbox but my Kramer Nightrider guitar: https://reverb.com/item/4818383-kramer-nightrider-naturalMine is read and has a stop tail, i.e. no vibrato bar. It is the one in my picture.
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Really nice Mario!
I love this kind of stuff. Extremely ear-wormy and soothing. Thanx David I'm glad you liked it.
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Man, that trumpet sounds GREAT! Very nice jazzbox work, too. Those strings make a nifty backdrop, and the whole band is very cohesive and oh-so-cool. Are those handclaps on the 2 and 4 over the last section? Made for a nice change of pace as the tune wound down.
Super job! Thanx Ron. That was not my jazzbox but my Kramer Nightrider guitar: https://reverb.com/item/4818383-kramer-nightrider-naturalMine is read and has a stop tail, i.e. no vibrato bar. It is the one in my picture. Mario, thanks for the reminder that jazz guitar can be played on any kind of guitar. You did a GREAT job with the lead lines on your semi-hollow body.
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Soulful indeed.
That trumpet is singing!
Nice guitar also.
And, as always, the mix sounds excellent.
"I'm just having a little fun with this one."
And we join in with you on the fun!
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Hi Mario!
I love the rhythmic feel of the backing on this - the contrast in busyness within the backing band and the main solo instruments. Early on, there was something rhythmic in the background - was it rhythm guitar? I wanted that a little louder - at least in my ears. (It might be my hearing loss).
A really enjoyable listen.
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Soulful indeed.
That trumpet is singing!
Nice guitar also.
And, as always, the mix sounds excellent.
"I'm just having a little fun with this one."
And we join in with you on the fun!
J&B Thanx Janice and Bud. I am trying to learn how to emulate the organic instruments via Swam and other VSTis. It is a slow process for me so I'm glad you liked the trumpet.
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Hi Mario!
I love the rhythmic feel of the backing on this - the contrast in busyness within the backing band and the main solo instruments. Early on, there was something rhythmic in the background - was it rhythm guitar? I wanted that a little louder - at least in my ears. (It might be my hearing loss).
A really enjoyable listen.
Andrew Thanx Andrew. Yes if the backing groove is busy then the lead instruments are not. The opposite is also true. Of course that is not set in stone. Yes that was the rhythm guitar and yes it gets lost later in the song.
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More Mario magic music. I'm always surprised how you manage slow tempos. I'm currently working on an instrumental using chords often used in Romanian doinas and it started out as my slowest to date, 75bpm, but bit by bit I had to increase it to 90 as BiaB samples didn't work well enough at slow tempos.
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Hi, Mario. Nice playing! The mix put the trumpet a bit too far in the back for my taste, but it makes excellent background listening. See what I did there? 
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More Mario magic music. I'm always surprised how you manage slow tempos. I'm currently working on an instrumental using chords often used in Romanian doinas and it started out as my slowest to date, 75bpm, but bit by bit I had to increase it to 90 as BiaB samples didn't work well enough at slow tempos. Thanx so much Chay. One major advantage to using MIDI is that they are tempo independent. That is no artifacts when slowing down or speeding up the tempo. But of course not every things works well as, for example, a 120BPM MIDI drum track may not sound good tempo wise in a 60 BPM song.
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Hi, Mario. Nice playing! The mix put the trumpet a bit too far in the back for my taste, but it makes excellent background listening. See what I did there? Thanx David. I'm glad that the too far back trumpet made excellent background music for you 
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Mario,
It is SO Cool what you do with that controller!
Trumpet sounds great.
Tasty guitar.
Dig that percussion....
Good listening.
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