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So I had one of my Pandora stations playing this morning and a song comes on I haven't heard in years. I have my opinion, but if you agree that this song is masterfully good, what makes it so good? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-hKBmTAADo
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https://soundcloud.com/user-646279677BiaB 2024 Windows For me there’s no better place in the band than to have one leg in the harmony world and the other in the percussive. Thank you Paul Tutmarc and Leo Fender.
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Lowdown by Boz Scaggs is a nice track but I don't consider it masterfully good. It represents much of the musical work done in the mid to late seventies. For me, Lido Shuffle is a better song from the same album. The whole album is a good example of high quality song arrangement and mixing.
The mid to late seventies was at the cusp for when analog hardware like mixing consoles and keyboards would start to be replaced with digital consoles and synths. So what you're hearing is the best of analog production.
The main thing about Lowdown is the song arrangement and mix support the star, Boz Scaggs. None of the tracks intrude upon or overlap with each other. Each track occupies its discrete space in the frequency and panning spectrum.
Small steps like having the analog high hats loud on the left channel and the electronic high hats quiet on the right channel create interest without anything clashing. None of the background tracks, including the background vocals, clash with Boz Scagg's vocal track.
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The main thing about Lowdown is the song arrangement and mix support the star, Boz Scaggs. Hi Jim, I wasn’t only referring to how this was mastered when I said “masterful”, Although the mastering is obviously superb, I had how it was arranged and it’s musicality more in mind than its mastering. This song starts off simple but steadily builds toward the outro. First, I consider the drums. Crisp, especially the hi hat as you point out. The fills are also well done and superbly in time and not over done. No need for overpowering crash cymbals. Next I consider the bass playing masterful. Up to about 0:09 either a guitar in a lower register or a bass in a higher register is carrying the intro. This then becomes a counter-point throughout the rest of the song. Then the true bass kicks in with a simple and driving 1, 2-3, 1, 2-3 pattern giving lots of room for the snare to breathe. At the same time we have a jazzy e-piano coming in playing tasty chords and around 0:19 we have some nice incoming flute to provide a melody. The lead vocals are good but it’s the instruments for me that are noteworthy. Then at 0:51 we have beautiful background vocals enter the scene. They sound to me like 2 female and 1 male with the females dominating (a Motown feel?). We also have faint strings making an appearance. Then at 1:58 we have our first guitar solo and at 2:07 we have more pronounced and sustained strings sitting up top which sustain until about 2:15. Then at 2:22 the mood changes driven by a more active bass line with an absolutely superb guitar solo. And around 4:08 the outro begins with more excellent guitar soloing. The whole band is full on with more energy coming from the drummer who is tastefully riding his ride cymbals. The thing I most liked about this outro from the first time I heard this song is how the guitarist is moving back and forth between individual “clean” notes and “dirty” chords. This “dirt” in my opinion is masterful and supports the idea of him being lowdown while driving the melody. I’m not a trained musician, so I’m sure this can be technically described much better by others. But the whole thing is very danceable and arranged with each instrument speaking its voice clearly and in turn within a rock-jazz/jazz-rock, non-pop framework. I also hear a tiny bit of Steely Dan here (or vice-versa). This is why I think its masterful. According to Ultimate Guitar, Boz (or the writers) chose 9 and 13 chords. This would be fun to learn on the bass if I can find the time.
https://soundcloud.com/user-646279677BiaB 2024 Windows For me there’s no better place in the band than to have one leg in the harmony world and the other in the percussive. Thank you Paul Tutmarc and Leo Fender.
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After a bit of research I've got an answer on guitar vs bass in the into. . . . it's bass, dummy me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=093ykYckThQI wonder how Rick Beato would describe this song?
https://soundcloud.com/user-646279677BiaB 2024 Windows For me there’s no better place in the band than to have one leg in the harmony world and the other in the percussive. Thank you Paul Tutmarc and Leo Fender.
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