I've not be very active on the forum so far this year as I've been working on sung songs and due to lack of inspiration struggling with instrumentals, having only posted one last month. Re sung songs I'm currently working on one with Lucy, but that was delayed as she was off on holiday. Assuming that works out it'll be a duet. Then re this new instrumental, I struggled with it from time to time this year, continuously changing the chord structure, and even when I had all the stem samples sorted it didn't work for me until I upped the tempo from 110 to 115 bpm. See the long paragraph note below re a very bizarre anomaly which occurred after upping the tempo as logically it shouldn't have been possible. "Iola Tao" is a character from my trilogy-length epic science fiction gnostic quest novel and the video features the 3D model I created of her around a decade ago.

Drums: Country Rock Guitar Solo, Pop Ba ~ Brian Fullen
Bass: Country Rock Guitar Solo, Pop Ba ~ Tobin Frank
Fingerstyle Rhythm Guitar: Acoustic Guitar: Seek Smooth Panpipe ~ Quinn Bachand
1st Organ: Country Rock Guitar Solo, Pop Ba ~ Gene Rabbai
1st & 2nd electric Rhythm Guitars: Jovian Divine Alt Rock Soloing ~ Mike Durham
2nd Organ: Giddy Up Country Ballad w Organ ~ Blair Masters
1st Guitar Solo: Blaring Heavy Funk Rock Solo ~ Brent Mason
Tenor Sax Solo: Verdite Light Soul Pop Sax Solo ~ Mark Douthit
2nd Guitar Solo: Floor Punch Hard Funk Rock Solo ~ Danny Rader
3rd Guitar Solo: Praise & Worship w/ Power Pop So ~ Dave Cleveland

G / 115bpm / 144 bars / 5:11

NOTES:
The Verdite Light Soul Pop Sax Solo is a hybrid of 2 samples.
The Floor Punch Hard Funk Rock Solo is ditto.
The Praise & Worship w/ Power Pop So(lo) is a hybrid of 4 solos.

The original BiaB instrument samples were all rendered at 110 bpm, then arranged in Audacity at the same tempo, but as the instrumental lacked zest I had to increase the tempo to 115 bpm in Audacity. In doing this an anomaly occurred with the Praise & Worship w/ Power Pop So(lo): despite that the waveform clearly showed the channel bias was to right, at exactly halfway through it switched channels - though sometimes it would play correctly but even then it always rendered with the channel switch - and only on rendering the whole instrumental did the waveform show the shift to left. The eventual solution was to load the original 110 bpm hybrid stem file into Audacity, up the tempo to 115 and make 2 copies of it, cut the 2nd ½ out of the 1st stem, load the 2nd stem, swap channels and cut the 1st ½ out and render the 2 as a single stem. I can only assume that the anomaly occurred due to upping the tempo, but it's a baffler!

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