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Has anybody ever tried to use percussion more like an actual instrument than just a timekeeping mechanism? I just started working on something of that nature and will be soliciting parts from forum members, as usual with the caveat that in the final mix your part may not make it, based on how many people send a part. It CAN'T be 9 minutes long just to avoid risking hurting people's feelings.
I am laying the rhythm bed in now. Rog will be looking at doing a fretless bass line, but in general I'd be looking for people who are interested in 16 bars of solo space over a repetitive chord pattern of Dm, Em, F, Em. Also, if we have bass players who want to take a shot, open to that too. One thing that is great about working with Rog involved is that he understands that no 2 people will always hear the same thing in their mind's ear and if he tries something and I don't like it, he is fine with me discarding it or asking for a tweak. Hoping I can talk Notes into doing something either on sax or wind controller, maybe Jazzmammal Bob can do some piano, Mr Snyder, Herb, Mario, Rog... my go to guitar people! I LOVE listening to people's musical "opinions" about how a solo should be on a given rhythm bed. You have the "How many notes can I fit here" type, and the "mild and tasty" type, and they are all perfectly valid perspectives. I love this stuff!!
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If you don't mind, I'll take a swing at a solo with no expectations of making the final cut.  I've got a bass player who's willing to give the bass part a try as well. I can't really help with the percussion, though. I was listening to the instrumental break on Styx's Castle Walls last night, and noticed to hear how sparse the percussion was. Whenever I add percussion, it ends up a hilarious - but entirely unusable - mess of congas, toms and the kitchen sink.
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Things like tuned drums and tuned bells can be interesting. Tuned kitchen sinks seems like a little more of a challenge.
When the rhythm bed is done I will post it and whoever wants to can take a swing at it. It is largely like a serene, trance inducing thing that was inspired by listening to some waves hit the rocks down south, and somewhere there must have been an obstacle that disturbed the timing of the waves rolling in to where they were not completely rhythmic. That kind of thing catches my ear. Like "Hey, the Savannah River has an arrhythmia."
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I also love when percussion in a tune plays a major role. I think it's really underappreciated.
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HI Eddie
Well I don’t feel competent enough to have a go, but it seems to me it may depend on your definition of percussion instruments. Many fit that definition for me, like Tubular bells, Timps, and Vibes, Glock etc, but are also chromatically tuned so capable of melodic phrases.
Not that that stops folk doing things like Skin deep and Wipe out with non Chromatic Percussion.
Just my thoughts.
Mike
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Exactly that, Mike. Tuned drums and stuff. I may even fill glasses with water to replicate a scale and record a loop on them. When it comes to this stuff, I don't believe there are limits.
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