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My wife and I recorded this little ditty to test out the up tempo bluegrass realtracks. It's a simple three chorder that we wrote a while back when playing in a BG band but we thought it's be a good way to check out the realtracks. Vocals: My wife on lead, tenor and baritone (hey, we don't have anybody around now days to sing harmony!) Instruments: All BIAB Mic: Blue Mixing: GarageBand Heading West This evening we are gonna start on a project that might be interesting or a total disaster. We are going to take an 18th century murder ballad (typically done in a folk or bluegrass style) and arrange to a reggae rhythm. Guess it could be called reggaebilly or reggaegrass 
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Very nice original BG song. Great voice and nice vocal chops. What BIAB style and REAL TRACKS did you use? Any MELODIST and/or SOLOIST tracks? Excelent job. Keep 'em coming!
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Nice Ditty indead. Your wife has a wonderful voice. exceptional mix! Thanks for sharing! Look forward to hearing more. My Music
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Very cool song and great vocals - I enjoyed this.
Bob
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Thanks folks! And to answer Hawgly's question these are the tracks we used:
Bluegrass Bass 592
Bluegrass Rhythm Guitar 598
Bluegrass Rhythm Banjo 589
Bluegrass Rhythm Fiddle 930
Bluegrass Rhythm Mandolin 432
Bluegrass Solo Banjo 433
Bluegrass Solo Fiddle 596
Bluegrass Solo Mandolin 436
I also used both of the Bluegrass Solo Guitar tracks to extract runs to add to different parts of the song as the Bluegrass Rhythm Guitar track is pretty minimalist.
There was a lot of cutting and splicing on the Solo tracks as I would generate four or five and via Garageband piece them together in a manner that worked best (I hope) with the melody that we wrote.
As far as the bass and rhythm guitar goes it would be less time consuming for us just to play the parts ourselves but it's fun seeing how far you can go with realtracks.
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Here at the NC/Va border there are a lot of musicians keeping authentic traditional bluegrass alive. Your song is perfectly in synch with what I hear around here. Your wife's voice really nails it! Great job!
If you made a CD of originals you could sell them all day long at shops along the Blue Ridge Parkway. Gospel is well received in that genre, and so are traditional standards.
Originals can also sell if you sing about things that are dear to the hearts of the audience, such as local history, the mountains, a simple life style, honesty and hard work.
On the other hand, locals can tell when the CD is made by a yankee trying to commercialize bluegrass, and they typically won't support that.
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Here at the NC/Va border there are a lot of musicians keeping authentic traditional bluegrass alive. Your song is perfectly in synch with what I hear around here. Your wife's voice really nails it! Great job!
If you made a CD of originals you could sell them all day long at shops along the Blue Ridge Parkway. Gospel is well received in that genre, and so are traditional standards.
Originals can also sell if you sing about things that are dear to the hearts of the audience, such as local history, the mountains, a simple life style, honesty and hard work.
On the other hand, locals can tell when the CD is made by a yankee trying to commercialize bluegrass, and they typically won't support that.
Well, I don't think anyone would accuse my wife of not sounding authentic as she comes from north GA mountain stock! I wish I could post covers here as she has done some really amazing versions of some obscure bluegrass tunes. We also have a CD of covers and songs that we wrote and recorded with the late great Randy Howard playing fiddle, mando and lead guitar -- but they aren't BIAB creations. If there is interest, as there seems to be, in Bluegrass here we might redo some of them with BIAB tracks and post them. We'll have our Reggaebilly tune finished soon to post. Thank you for your comments!!
PS If you missed our previous Civil War song/vid that we here's a link to it: Dear Mama Video
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Well, I don't think anyone would accuse my wife of not sounding authentic as she comes from north GA mountain stock! I wish I could post covers here as she has done some really amazing versions of some obscure bluegrass tunes. We also have a CD of covers and songs that we wrote and recorded with the late great Randy Howard playing fiddle, mando and lead guitar --
so THAT'S why you sound so good! You ain't no newbie to this!
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but they aren't BIAB creations. If there is interest, as there seems to be, in Bluegrass here we might redo some of them with BIAB tracks and post them. We'll have our Reggaebilly tune finished soon to post.
Cool! I look forward to hearing them!
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PS If you missed our previous Civil War song/vid that we here's a link to it: Dear Mama Video
I had missed that on the first go-round, but I just got back from following your link... very nice song and video! I'm favorably impressed!
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I like this too. Enjoyed it a lot!
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this is good stuff great vocals and song layout mix right on thanks for sharing eric
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