Mercy Me

I'm just having a little fun.

BiaB style - Hip Hop 4 - Funky hip hop Groove
Tempo - 95 BPM

I deleted the guitar, strings, bass, and utility track.
Piano - Keys of the 70's - preset EP. I added the chorus.
Drums - Steven Slate's SSD-5
Percussion - Kontakt - Brio
Note that I modified the BiaB tracks to better fit the song.

I am playing the bass guitar (Squire P-Bass), lead guitar (SX Tele), and via my keyboard controller the Swam jazz flute. Why the keyboard and not the wind controller you ask? Because I was having a mild bout of Covid and didn't want to contaminate the wind controller's mouthpiece. I am now over it.

Mario,

Sounds great! Love the jazz flute sound and the interplay with your guitar.

Feels like a late night at the jazz club!

Bob

First of all I’m glad the Covid was mild. You do some amazing work with midi. The flute sounds great. I enjoyed the jam, Tom

Cool sound and rhythm. A different territory than what I've heard from you lately. All sounds good, especially that Tele.

Mario ...

I always enjoy your little impromptu jams and and "having fun" cuts. You're very creative, and I love the diversity of your music. Glad the COVID was mild, and you're over it. Di and I both had a moderate bout about 5 or 6 weeks ago. I'm fine - it further exacerbated Di's health issues, though. She's struggling quite a bit these days.

That was a really cool listen!

Best to you.

Alan

Mario,

Good listening.
Nice work with the controller (as always)
Jammin'. Fun.

fj

Quite a complicated sounding tune, Mario.
Nicely worked out.

Vic

Thanx so much Bob. I'm a big fan of Swam VSTis. I wish I had more money to buy them all.


Thanx Tommy I appreciate your very kind words.

Thanx. That Tele was a $100 USD new purchase.

[quote=Al-David]Mario ...

I always enjoy your little impromptu jams and and "having fun" cuts. You're very creative, and I love the diversity of your music. Glad the COVID was mild, and you're over it. Di and I both had a moderate bout about 5 or 6 weeks ago. I'm fine - it further exacerbated Di's health issues, though. She's struggling quite a bit these days.

That was a really cool listen!

Best to you.

Thanx Al. I pray that Di does improve. I know how you feel as my wife is having some health issues and it is hard watching.

Thanx Floyd. Thanx to BiaB I can jam all I want!
PS - You only hear the ones that are somewhat successful!


Thanx Vic. I could not get those stops in BiaB so I had to do them in my DAW. Thanx God for copy and paste!

Exactly what I would enjoy at a local coffee shop or pub......diversity of sounds and interplay in a relaxed groove that sounds like it was fun to record/play. Brings a smile!

Thanx Chad for listening and commenting on my little song. Yes, it was fun to play.

Nice performances on guitar, bass and flute...cool interactions with the flute and guitar.

The mix is excellent with great dynamics. Your light compression (or lack thereof) always serves up open mixes.
And that is right in our mix wheelhouse FWIW!

Fun

J&B

Thanx so much Janice and Bud. IIRC I only used compression on the bass track.

That's a cool tune! Reminds me of Steely Dan, my rock gateway to jazz. Everything sounds great, even (especially?) the budget guitar and bass. "It's not the guitar, it's the player" is one of my favorite expressions. And you're a PLAYER! Really enjoyed it!

DC Ron, thanx for this extremely kind review. All of my guitar's and basses, with the exception of my Casio MIDI controller strat, are budget instruments. By necessity I am a bottom feeder.

Mario, Ha! I've been a guitar synth tinkerer for about 30 years. Still have two Casio PG-380s (synth + MIDI) but have owned the very nice MG-510 (MIDI only) as well. The PG-380s are by far the best guitar synth that don't require outboard processing. Am pretty experienced at repairing them, too, 'cause that's what it takes to keep 30 year old technology firing...

Mario,

Nice one. Really like the drum work in this one—really pops. The flute sounds pretty solid as well—front and center, though a little bit of a synth feel to it that, regardless works well. When you say, “I modified the BIAB tracks to better fit the song,” I’m curious about what you mean by that. In what way modified? Would be cool to hear what you did (i.e., learning opportunity for me). Thanks—and good tune!

All my best,

Deej

Hi, Mario.

Fun listen. Glad you're feeling better!

Hi Mario.

You really are very talented at creating music that sets ambience.
So many of your works reflect, create and interpret mood.
This piece is no exception. It all come together very nicely.
I hope your covid is done and dusted! I've only had the virus once but it took me a long time to recover fully from it (and that was despite having four vaccinations).

Wishing you well!
--Noel

Thanx so much Deej.

I could not get the right groove while working ing BiaB. Even when using the microchords I could not get the feel that I wanted as far as the timing and chord changes. I brought the song into Studio One Pro 6 and did the changing there and copy and pasted those changes through out the song. Since I work in MIDI making said changes wasn't that difficult. On most of my songs I usually make changes to the BiaB MIDI tracks.

Thanx. Yep I'm back to my "normal" self.

Thanx Noel for this fantastic review.

Yep, my Covid is gone. All but one in my family got Covid and all were mild cases. Those that got Covid only had the first two shots and no boosters. The one that didn't get it had a case of it a couple of years ago but didn't get any shots. We have family members whom have all of the vacs and have Covid a number of times. Go figure!

Where the heck have I been? I LOOK for Mario magic when here, but missed this one all the way to page 2. Sheesh.

So glad that has been rectified. Man, what a fun piece. I really dig the bed of music the soloists flow over. You have that magic touch no matter which controller you use. Glad you're well. Super cool guitar solo, playing with the bg pieces.

Thanx Marty. I started with a keyboard controller many years ago. Then it was on to a guitar and wind controllers. I am better at using the keyboard controller over the wind controller as I can do a number of things simultaneously that I can't do with the wind controller. BUT with the wind controller I can control the volume better.

Cool tune Mario. Loved the kick on the intro. Really gets you into the tune. Flute was cool and the guitar was right up my alley. Loved the tone and excellent licks. Well done

Thanx Scott, I appreciate your kind words.

Hi Mario,

I saw i nearly missed this song of yours.
A cool melody and that flute sounds very good in it. I thought that it would be too difficult to combine this style with that flute.
But, as I wrote, it is very good.
The flute sounds so realistic too. You can hear the breathing, or the start of it on the flute. Very nice!
A good one, Mario!

Hans

Thanx so much Hans. I'm glad that you liked it.