Very cool blues jam.

No, BB is not cheating. It's no different than someone who hires studio musicians to play instruments they are not capable of playing themselves. I remember back in the old Cakewalk forum days the comments from other folks about those of us who were using BB to play the parts.... "Fake, cheating, not real....."

For me, the BB real tracks and real drums are hard to beat. If you do it right, you can enhance those raw tracks and give them more of a professional polish. I had a guy who ran a studio as a business ask me how I got the fiddle part. He knew I didn't play and I didn't credit any of the fiddle players in the forum. His comment was, " Herb, I can hear the rosin on the bow in the sound " Yep, it ain't cheating. It's common sense and way more affordable to hire the BB players. I love the Kill Branch Studio band. They're always ready, don't show up late, don't show up drunk or high, don't argue with me over my selection of key, tempo, or choice of chords, work for cheap, and they don't try to flirt with or hit on my wife.

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www.herbhartley.com
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