Great track man...when I listen to music I like to see into it and feel the artist's level of commitment whether he (or she) is trying and not just faking it, you get a big thumbs up in this department the vocals are excellent and you've obviously put in some hard yards on the production side as well. You've definitely got the goods, go for it!
Listened to this and thought, hell the dude's swearing a lot these days!lol..as per your usual swagger and cool delivery just like stepping off the curb,excellent tone all the way through..liked it! cheers from the fusion side of the street. ;)
All the mindless swearing are my go too fillers when i freestlye. Similar to an um er ah speech filler. I'd rather not have them in there, but its hard to stop! lol. Just need to keep practicing. Which is exactly what this track was. Practice. Thanks for the comment Dave!
Hey MrWolf, nice work man! very cool spoken word piece, I like the live almost cavern feel you've created here it's almost minimalist in nature but has an ambience that floats those lyrics perfectly creating an excellent ambience....great composition with a strong message! cheers Dave
Hey there Rhodesy..well if you can find a bigger Miles aficionado than me on the planet good luck!!lol..I've gotta say this is great music mate!!! if I came across this with a tag on the internet saying "lost Miles session found" I'd believe it, which is about as big an endorsement I can give you. I take it your playing all the instruments here (looking on your bio it suggests it) if that's the case awesome work man! (I only bring this up as there's just too much borrowed material out there being claimed as original)...you just got yourself a new fan..be back to check out more of your great stuff! cheers Dave
Hey Dave,thanks for the very kind words my friend,yes Miles was and still is the name in jazz for a lot of people.I play all instruments always with Addictive drums.Glad you enjoyed the track, my music tends to change genre from track to track,i never really plan what i am going to do just follow my ears lol.Hope to hear more from you in the future.Thanks for looking me up like this it really meant a lot. Rhodesy
Hey Staggerman, nice work mate!...very cool arrangement and a super nice tone to your bass work, which is also very tasty indeed, funky fresh whilst breathing new life into an all time classic tune..A big high five from a fellow bassist, excellent work man, hope to hear lots more of this excellent playing!...cheers Dave :)
Hey Alex...careful man once you drink the waters of Bossa Nova there's no turning back...it'll start with little things like buying open neck shirts with frilly cuffs and tight bell bottom trousers, soon after you'll start rolling your 'r's when you speak and drinking pina coladas by the dozen and you'll always carry a pair of maracas in your back pocket...you might even grow a moustache!(that is if you don't already have one!)....nice vibe man,I like the straight up symmetry without too much swing it's almost a folk musical rendition which adds to it's integrity....I've heard this tune what must be at least a thousand times and you've reinvented it for my ears..thank you for that!......cheers Dave :)
Thank you so much for listening and a nice review!
Do not worry - I won't lose the connection with the proper rhythm (I just acquired a mechanical metronome ha!) and definitely will go somewhere further with swinging eights for sure in latin styles next days (I have few days exclusively for myself and much space as well as some perspectives on eventual developing subtleties in playing yay!).
I simply need more time to internalize the proper variations of different 'rhythm patterns' in latin styles. I am practising both comping and soloing at the moment (ok, just simple 251 licks and basic pentatonic runs exercises when comping same time lol).
I am practising 16th note funk grooves as well but this is an another story. I am far away to get the proper swing of 16th notes. Those are 2 separated and very different things (I mean latin and funk). I am still struggling with connecting rhythm ideas.
Sergio Leone on acid springs to mind, no hang on I'm getting more of a Brian Jones if he was still alive documentary vibe..Jeez I like that downturn in the tuning segment then that dark synth!...speaking of which this music would be perfect for a Mythbusters type experiment on the effects of ambient tracks on plants I mean you'd think plants would dig ambient music right? There's so much happening it's definitely a mixing Opus that's for sure and very well executed! and I read it's an interpretation of a bipolar episode which is a pretty amazing endeavour just in itself, has the person in question heard this track and if so what was their reaction?....music is always better when the objective is an extrapolation and not just a construct.....I'd also like to hear this played in elevators but not airports. cool! cheers Dave
Hey Dave. A Fistful of Acid ehh? The person in question has heard the track but it's hard to have a meaningful discussion about it as the person doesn't remember the week of catatonic behaviour, and from my perspective of observing it first hand, that might not be a bad thing not being able to remember it. For me music has always been a sort of a stress therapy in a way. I always appreciated how Kate Bush could write so detailed and clear about subjects that really never affected her in her own daily life. (ie:This womans work, or Breathing) But in this case this affects myself as an observer with an emotional stake. I don't sing and usually write crap lyrics, But I can arrange music and play instruments and I can try to make those arrangements convey a musical journey or story that reflects an emotion or a feeling. Plants and ambient music, who knows? but I do know my cat Liam likes 17th century classical music and hates my avant garde music. And my other cat Wolfie likes to play the piano in a very atonal method that I wouldn't recommend to anybody.
" music is always better when the objective is an extrapolation and not just a construct"
I would wholeheartedly agree with that statement, We should be looking beyond in our work more often than not. The greatest works we treasure to this day musically have that special trait, with the exception of the chicken dance, though one could say the author knew it would be played at weddings all around the world some day.
Thanks for stopping bye
Cheers Steve
Is this Spivkurl or the reincarnation of Captain Beefheart channelling Devo?...whatever it sounds crazy cool man!...when I hear grooves like this I get that Zen moment when you have to adapt your peripheral perceptions in order to fully appreciate the music, I call it ensemble awareness, you put yourself in the position of playing within the structure and feel it out that way, I think many people do this automatically and many gain inspiration from this technique, needless to say this doesn't happen with music that's unappealing to oneself...Music from the lingering soul of Fritz Lange's Metropolis....awesome and original!
Hey man, it's good to hear from you! I actually had to go and listen to some Captain Beefheart, as I really am completely unfamiliar with his music. I somewhat randomly landed on the video for "Ice Cream For Crow," and within less than a minute I had it "liked." Super cool stuff, which I identify with a lot! This kind of speaks to my intentional incorporation of folk, jazz, and blues influences into seemingly modern sounds. The comparison with Devo deepens the connection, and I am fully ready to admit that this is one of the more Devo sounding tracks I've ever made. That part was not intentional though, ha ha. The "ensemble awareness" idea you have proposed makes perfect sense to me, and I think I may have felt that while trying to complete this track. It fell into place, because it was meant to happen. I watched "Metropolis" a few times back in the day, and found it a bit disturbing, but at the same time influential. It's a big honor that you can find this song musical, as you are serious about your art. Thank you very much for your words!
Had to check this track out after the recommendation...Now that changeup at 1:52 is what I'm talking about, nice one!..great stuff man, at some point in time in any good passage of music (like this) there's a defining moment where for arguments sake gravity is defeated for a split second and things take off or conversely the recalcitrant ghost of melancholia makes an appearance, for bass players it's usually the former for keyboard and guitar players the latter (though Jaco could choose either seemingly at will) when it happens it's always the sign of good music....to this day Justin Bieber hasn't achieved it (I'm no authority on his discography, but I've heard enough!)......excellent track! cheers Dave
Sweet!!!..Hey Bill totally awesome track man, wow playing in that band of yours has expanded your bag of tricks (if that's even possible,they were great to start with!)the production skills have gone to the nth degree, superb mix...what I really enjoy about this piece is it's effortless motion and seamless riffing, from the briefest of rim shots to the excellent guitar passages you can hear absolutely everything...It's not easy critiquing your material without constantly repeating all the common superlatives, I should just say 'hot track bro' lol.....This is definitely the high point of my day (mostly spent doing gardening chores!) it's pretty obvious a Bilbozo Richter scale or something needs to be implemented but then this is not a gale force track it's just so damn relaxing, will four stars and an elephant stamp do?...your the guy that sets the standard and the musical high water mark for us mere mortals...beautiful work mate! cheers Dave :)
I used to resemble the track title (well up until the 80's)..Jesus man this should have been the theme music to Gilligan's Island, then maybe there would have been some sex and surfing going on!...Definitely some surfing vibes with those clean guitar tones but with a slightly more esoteric approach, I get the feeling of an enjoyable upbeat groove but there's (like smoking weed)a more introspective layer just beneath the surface....Television land awaits tracks like these or was it waited and they weren't available, we shall never know (but hopefully we will), if I was a tv exec I'd sign you up for sure! big thumbs up
This may be the first time you've graced one of my tracks with a comment. Not sure if I've ever commented on one of yours. I know I've commented on one of your loops, and possibly a Zappo track, but no track comment that I know of.
We are rather different kinds of bassists. Neither wrong. I can't do what you do. You've got the tone realm down, for sure. You can hold down the bottom and make it a moving, living, breathing thing.
I learned by playing Tool songs and trying to play guitar lines on my bass. I never had anyone (sober) to play with, so I had to write lead stuff on the bass if I wanted to be writing anything at all.
I've seen a good amount of Gilligan's Island. Maddening. Had they just killed Gilligan, they wouldn't have spent more than a few days on that island. It would have been The Millionaire who came up with the plan, of course. He had the most to lose, and would be the most motivated to do away with any hazardous individuals who threaten their escape. Sneaking up behind him and clapping coconut halves over the ears causing a deadly concussion is one option. Hiding the citrus and letting scurvy work it's magic is another. Though really, we both know The Skipper would drag him, kicking and screaming into the ocean, and just hold him under till his annoying little legs finally achieve a satisfying stillness, keeping the hat as a memento.
Thanks for the kind words on this track. It's far from my best. I'd hoped you would have heard a better one, like "Constellation" or "Hunting For Gatherers". I'm still getting better and I hope you will give some of my other stuff a chance as well. Your opinion means a lot to me, and is always appreciated.
Hey man I'm liking this, that little melodic riff takes the whole production in a very cool direction indeed, a lot of heavy metal can get compartmentalised by it's own metalness sometimes(if that makes sense) not this though you have an excellent live jam continuity happening great fluidity..sort of Greatfull Deadish in so many ways (which is a big thumbs up) an excellent track!....I'm going to shift gears here and talk about the production side of things for a minute, you've obviously got a very creative head on your shoulders and your projects are orchestrated with many elements, I can hear something that I've grappled with since I started recording and still suffer from, it plagues us all...muddiness in the mix, however I finally started doing something last week that I've known for quite awhile (with a little help from buying some new drum software I might add) and it works, processing every drum element on a separate track, the trouble with having all the drums on one track is when you engage reverb or compression or anything for that matter it effects the whole kit without discrimination which isn't desirable and starts compacting a project from step one..it's amazing when the drums are opened up how this effects the whole composition for example a dry compressed kick sounds great with a reverb snare(I know, teaching grandma to suck eggs)....Just a tangential though as listening to this track I get that Spector wall of sound, there's so much good playing going on here it's pretty amazing, excellent work and a huge thumbs up!
A real surprise to see you listening and even commenting. But a good and potentially very useful comment. Potentially cos you may be able to give me some further good advice.
Yes, the little melodic riff that arrives after the initial low end riffage sets this apart, I feel, from a lot of metal. I'm no proper metaller though I of course do listen to various heavy stuff. But my focus is always on melody and groove rather than brutality and I can't really further a heavy track if I don't have some strong melodic and grooving elements. Without them, it just seems like a load of heavy riffage for the sake of it.
I've never hear anything by The Grateful Dead that I liked though I've never really tried that hard. Guess there must be something I'd like if you think I'm inadvertently channelling them here.
"muddiness in the mix"
pisses me off probably more than anything about my music. I'm continually confused as to whether I am actually a pretty good producer and mixer or if I'm just not good enough and not doing the sounds and arrangement justice by having some things buried and the mix not being powerful and clear enough. I've definitely improved a lot in the last few years.
I'd love to try out your drum mixing/processing suggestion but I can't say I totally understand it, which is why I'd love a further bit of clarification. I use Toontrack's Superior Drummer and multiple kits in a track, some of which often play simultaneously. I've still never done a track with only one kit!
I do have some drum processing technical limitations and don't seem able to output all the separate Superior drum mixer channels in Cubase though I'm sure some people do it in their DAWs. So, I can't even automate each kit part's volume level or panning. However, that does mean that I do a lot of careful velocity trimming of lots of hits, which can have the same effect as reducing/boosting their volume (plus a change in timbre, of course).
I think what you're saying is that I could do better if I applied reverb to, say, only a snare and left the rest of the kit dry.
Perhaps the muddiness in the mix here is caused by the heavy synth sub bass. Maybe that's more the culprit than the drums.
Perhaps you could start a forum topic on your drum processing point and I'd comment there, as might someone like Mahloo.
"there's so much good playing going on here it's pretty amazing"
Thanks very much for that as it does mean something, especially coming from you.
Hey Richie....awesome mix man!!! seriously good work, there is no one I've heard(yet)that gets anywhere near your production skills within a DAW. The difference between this track and a professionally produced mega buck production is bugger all, I'm sitting here gobsmacked at the balance you've achieved here, we all want great guitar tone, we all want realistic drums and keys, isolated and taken individually the average listener is going to say so what if you played him your guitar track,but when it's insinuated into the mix it's as near perfect as your going get with digital music, I repeat again exceptional work...and yes you are very lucky to be working with such a gifted vocalist or rather she's extremely lucky to be working with you...interestingly if Lisa was an African American this track would probably be categorized as soul!haha ..it's such a pleasure listening to good music and you never ever disappoint,tips me lid man....cheers Dave :)
It's great to here from you. I am in Auckland at the moment and flew from UK via Melbourne. Next time I'll take a few days and we can have a beer somewhere.
Thanks very much for your really kind words. It is so rewarding to hear the commnets from someone who not only has an educated ear but who is also a gifted musician and producer too. Thank you so much.
I guess I'm still learning with all this and always trying to get the very best out of what I have. Lisa is truly accomplished and a pleasure to work with. We hope to do some work as a duo next year too.
One upgrade to my system is a valve pre amp which has added a warmth to the vocals and guitar I could never achieve before. Valve mic is next.
I don't want to come across as negative as my musical tastes are a little removed from this material, I think your voice by today's standards is very good, in fact it sounds exactly like most of the commercial material being produced today, now that is in fact a compliment and answers your forum question..I think if anything the dynamics of the track are a little one dimensional in that there's an immediate plateauing of emotion, no ebbing no flowing, maybe it's the autotune...unfortunately my preconceptions are getting the better of me and I'm sounding out of touch with today's vocal style, in all seriousness you've got a good to excellent voice and I can't see why you couldn't with the right production company get some commercial air play....all the best cheers PJB
Hey Kika,great rockin tune man!..You wouldn't be the recently reincarnated soul of Herman Brood by any chance? haha....apart from an excellent downbeat and solid rock guitar with a great live feel,I love it that your singing in your native tongue!!..all too often European musicians feel compelled to adapt to English to get wider appeal or fit into the Western world's ingrained music industry template...sounds awesome mate keep it going man,big thumbs up!..cheers Dave :)
Thanks pjb! I can't imagine how swedish sounds for you – but it's som much simpler for me to ad-lib in swedish. Still the words come out making no sense - but I kind of like it doing it this way. Again, thank you for listening and commenting – much appreciated. /pmk
Hey LosCoz hi man...cool track mate!..nice and dreamy with a great backbeat,slick production values,you've got some nice melodic overlays happening and those shimmering transients are way cool!.....very enjoyable listening!..cheers Dave :)
Thank you Dave for the positive review! I'm sorry to respond late but unfortunately last week my PC began acting weird so I had to reset it, lost all my music projects in the process! Only got it up and running today.
Cheers and thank you for taking the time to listen!
Hey Joe..awesome man!..super throb factor,you got that Precision thumping big time,a lot of people would regard this as an excellent bed for a developing track,being a bass player I can dig it for what it is Bass,bass and more bass!!!haha bring it on bassgasm!...just sourced a 1984 (made in Japan)fretted Precision neck for my fretless precision(arguably better than what was being made stateside at that time)man I love the Precision sound,I ignored it for decades preferring the Jazz bass(typical Jaco influence!lol)and what an idiot I was..Precisions fill out the bottom end so well they just thump like no other as you well know,be stringing it with flats as well to get that full motownish/soul vibe...bass is the place buddy I salute you!..cheers Dave :)
i must confess dave that this is a jazz bass (dean jammer )...with flat medium strings...coming out of one of my digitechs straight into the computer, im so glad you came for a listen for ...you ..are the one i look up to for inspration!
Hey Alex....twilight zone,man this is very cool material...very reminiscent of a free form oscillating instrument in Native Instruments Reaktor5 (Metaphysical Function)but so much better because your playing it in real time,every time I listen to your music I feel some presence of Joe Zawinul,not in his corporeal form but more in his method,you use the synthesizer as a vehicle for space travel...next time you do something similar(if you have the inclination that is)send me the track and I'll put some acoustic bass on it if that's agreeable with you.....Invariably keyboard players always turn out to be the best composers and your no exception,it's like you have the universe in your hands....superb work! cheers Dave
thank you so much for listening to my music and all kind words! I was thinking a lot of creating something new and sending you some materials but still I will probably need more time with all this. I am busy (and struggling) with real life currently (I will try to explain it more precisely soon) and there is only a little space/energy for practising keyboard playing that is available. Opening the daw and fooling around there is always much easier than serious practising, needless to say. Over last weeks I was working on the transcription of one Keith Jarrett's piano piece from the 'Koln Concert' and want to record it on my old upright piano. This is very ambitious project haha.
Now, right at this moment it is a rainy Sunday early morning of very hot summer and I have some free time for working out the piano today, maybe I will message you at the end of a day when something interesting will come up!
Also soon or later I will make my version of the 'Pelican Feet' project but I need more time to get into funk playing. That's the challenge.
Thanks again for pointing Joe Zawinul! I discovered some of his older recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xufea3dGCjo and this is an excellent stuff to learn from. I really want to develop some stylistic bebop elements and acquire more licks. Bebop is always the basic and probably most important foundation. I will try to work transcribing and internalizing some of the patterns from that video sometime.
'Hot Coffe' was played on Roland JunoDi - I was inspired and finnaly bought better hardware synthesizer. Maybe I will be getting even more of the professional hardware equipment in the near future. I will write you if so! There are some classic synth sounds but also fine electric pianos presets there. I am happy because I do not need plugins to create. I manipulated a lot simply with cutoff and resonance knobs when playing but I can't open the external editor software to check out the actual internal settings. The reso knob was probably assigned to change some other parameters of the sound which make that preset quite complex and interesting when performed.
Thank you again for the nice words. I really appreciate that. I do not know if I really deserve the comparision with such amazing players but anyway I will try to work more intense and keep up with! Thank you for a great inspiration!
Hey Mike....sonic creatures of the underworld vibe for sure,I like where this is creatively,your on the highway to hell but you didn't take the expressway to Screamoville or Heavymetalburg,it's articulated darkness....definitely an interesting track,I realize it's not finished yet,I like the dirty soundscape and especially the intro,it just needs some more presence to the instrumentation maybe..I like angst and this piece is dripping with it,cool stuff!...cheers Dave
Hey there mate...Great groove you've got going on here man,the reason this works so well is it's not trying to out think itself,there's a cool theme running through the whole piece and all the elements reflect it resulting in great continuity!...I will mention here your post in the forums about 'losing one's mojo' as it's directly relates to this track where you obviously haven't lost your mojo...........You and I are from the same generation we've had plenty of time to figure out truth from fiction and all the rest of life's bullshit,and there's one thing that is crystal clear to me,especially when it comes to the creative process,there is no future,there is only the past and the now,sure we extrapolate and project as humans do but it's in the rumination of ideas,concepts and actions that we find ourselves....it's in front of us all the time,it's that ant your about to step on,or consequently not step on,it's in that fluctuating beat that's going on behind your eyes,for instance you mentioned you had a lot of unfinished tracks you were about to bin,somewhere among all that stuff is a passage or phrase that is worth keeping,try finding it,copy and paste it into a new track slot then delete everything else.....to me making music is like milking a cow (without any machinery! lol)you have to sit down with a bucket and stool an get to it and in that process barring accidents you'll end up with something,sorry if I got a little tangential here,this is a great track with plenty of great mojo!..cheers Dave :)
Thanks Mr planet jazz.
You were the fist guy to intrigue me when I first discovered the loop section and when the track section wasn'r noticed for a very long time.
I think your loops are increbiially inventive.
I've used them in a few tracks but mostly in the one I did called the film.
Thankyou for such encouregment.
I think I'm going to have to chill for a while as my brain is just satring to flood with Nitrazepam and Palexia. Very heavy mix but will have upright and pain free within a short while.
Right now I'm struggling to type.
If I've missed any please accept my apologies but I'll be back after some chemical indeuced stupour dreaming./
Hey Pat...shades of Metropolis,Fritz Lang's not Superman's!...The trouble is many people would categorize this in the alternative pigeon hole whereas it sounds totally normal to me,being a big Faust fan since the early 70's I dig it,dripping with trans generational 'tude' and a thin veneer of angst but delivered with a stylish laissez-faire attitude amounts to very cool in my book....I like that busy termite action synth grooves,it bubbles along nicely without boiling over and putting the stove out...if you performed this with a suitable stage show you'd be a star in certain quarters....Back in the day the music was enough but now the artist has to be portrayed for visual shock value in conjunction with the music......original music rules in my book,I've lost my elephant stamp but for what it's worth you get my vote man!.....your the full package ....musician,singer,songwriter,lyricist,composer,arranger,instrument maker and producer!..phew,did I leave anything out..awesome! cheers Dave
Ha ha, Metropolis! Used to really get into that movie, like 15 years ago. I'll have to look up Faust, as while I have heard of them, I can't really name a song. The attitude and angst is definitely there, and it is sad, but when creating songs on subjects I really care about, it seems natural to leave my care behind for the most part. In fact it is one reason I make lyrical music at all. The "termite action" you mention really hits home - during some of the later creation of this song I had carpenter ants trying to destroy the structure of the roof in my studio space. Freaked me out. I thought it was termites to begin with, but it got WAY too noisy to be little termites. Interesting you mention live performance, as I have been trying to work towards the ability to do slightly stripped down performances in the future, both by designing portable gear and practice. Aside from that, Iris-T-Shirt is getting all the pissed off energy we need to make a comeback. I am fully capable of the visual shock element, so that's the easy part... just ask the lady who gave us the eye when we got all excited about the rusty tire iron for $1 at the thrift shop!! (no we don't have a car) I appreciate your supportive list of my efforts there, I guess the only thing missing is performance art (sans music). Thank you so much for your listen and comment!
Hey Mike..cool man,old school to the core (not that I'd be an expert on rap nomenclature,but I know what I know! lol)..you've probably got one of the most laid back smooth styles going around at the moment and I know you didn't find that talent wrapped up beneath a Christmas tree,so more power to you,on a production note...I think the mix is great vocal wise though at times there possibly needs to be some volume focus (as in an automated swell)like with the background bells occasionally,if you do this subtly throughout the track it'll make it breathe more and you'll get it to organically pump with the vocals....great work man!
Hey Mate..you got your funky hat on again,Cool man!..you have disco lights behind your eyes man,a mirror ball hanging from the ceiling and gogo girls..everywhere! lol..Super track my friend,very tasty guitar licks,I love that single coil tone,you dial it in just right...the way I see it you have a funky laid back groove and your jazz rock fusionista brain twists it into Zappodelic rock...awesome groove,Zappo rules!..I like the vocals too!...now I must get back to meditating on "Future in the Past" with my acoustic electric bass..it is magnificent!!! see you soon mate Dave :)
Hey wordy,great flow man!...I dig the expressiveness of your voice and the articulation,great sense of timing to!...I think the best result track wise will be achieved if you send me your whole vocal track by itself,and I mean the whole track length from 000 till the end,so it will register perfectly as a separate track into the existing arrangement (also Bonez's if he adds a verse) and I'll incorporate them into the mix,preferable dry with no effects (I'll add those) I'll also send you all the separate elements of the tune so you can do your own remix as well...great stuff man,you've got that old school vibe nailed down tight!
contact me at planetjazzbass@gmail.com
Thanks, man! i appreciate the kind words and the respect. it would never have been a track without your vision. i will definitely send the dry vocals to you via email for a mix. i think since this is your baby i will leave it in your hands to work on. however... i'd love the Bass track by itself. Being a bass player myself i can hear SOOOO many gems in there that i'd love to sample you here and there in some tracks.
again, thanks so much for letting me be a part of this. i will send the dry vox this week.
Very cool tune mz!...I'd like to see the vocals a little more predominant than the guitar in the mix however this doesn't detract from the excellent timbre of your voice and the superb ethereal quality of this composition,I can't understand why anyone who is creative themselves finds this subject matter controversial,sadness and suicide are a fact of life ironically and expressing it through music is to be applauded not criticized...you have a new fan!
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Thank you so much for listening and a nice review!
Do not worry - I won't lose the connection with the proper rhythm (I just acquired a mechanical metronome ha!) and definitely will go somewhere further with swinging eights for sure in latin styles next days (I have few days exclusively for myself and much space as well as some perspectives on eventual developing subtleties in playing yay!).
I simply need more time to internalize the proper variations of different 'rhythm patterns' in latin styles. I am practising both comping and soloing at the moment (ok, just simple 251 licks and basic pentatonic runs exercises when comping same time lol).
I am practising 16th note funk grooves as well but this is an another story. I am far away to get the proper swing of 16th notes. Those are 2 separated and very different things (I mean latin and funk). I am still struggling with connecting rhythm ideas.
I am happy you liked my track!
Alex
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" music is always better when the objective is an extrapolation and not just a construct"
I would wholeheartedly agree with that statement, We should be looking beyond in our work more often than not. The greatest works we treasure to this day musically have that special trait, with the exception of the chicken dance, though one could say the author knew it would be played at weddings all around the world some day.
Thanks for stopping bye
Cheers Steve
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We are rather different kinds of bassists. Neither wrong. I can't do what you do. You've got the tone realm down, for sure. You can hold down the bottom and make it a moving, living, breathing thing.
I learned by playing Tool songs and trying to play guitar lines on my bass. I never had anyone (sober) to play with, so I had to write lead stuff on the bass if I wanted to be writing anything at all.
I've seen a good amount of Gilligan's Island. Maddening. Had they just killed Gilligan, they wouldn't have spent more than a few days on that island. It would have been The Millionaire who came up with the plan, of course. He had the most to lose, and would be the most motivated to do away with any hazardous individuals who threaten their escape. Sneaking up behind him and clapping coconut halves over the ears causing a deadly concussion is one option. Hiding the citrus and letting scurvy work it's magic is another. Though really, we both know The Skipper would drag him, kicking and screaming into the ocean, and just hold him under till his annoying little legs finally achieve a satisfying stillness, keeping the hat as a memento.
Thanks for the kind words on this track. It's far from my best. I'd hoped you would have heard a better one, like "Constellation" or "Hunting For Gatherers". I'm still getting better and I hope you will give some of my other stuff a chance as well. Your opinion means a lot to me, and is always appreciated.
Take care, Dave.
Evan
on Chasm by StaticNomad
A real surprise to see you listening and even commenting. But a good and potentially very useful comment. Potentially cos you may be able to give me some further good advice.
Yes, the little melodic riff that arrives after the initial low end riffage sets this apart, I feel, from a lot of metal. I'm no proper metaller though I of course do listen to various heavy stuff. But my focus is always on melody and groove rather than brutality and I can't really further a heavy track if I don't have some strong melodic and grooving elements. Without them, it just seems like a load of heavy riffage for the sake of it.
I've never hear anything by The Grateful Dead that I liked though I've never really tried that hard. Guess there must be something I'd like if you think I'm inadvertently channelling them here.
"muddiness in the mix"
pisses me off probably more than anything about my music. I'm continually confused as to whether I am actually a pretty good producer and mixer or if I'm just not good enough and not doing the sounds and arrangement justice by having some things buried and the mix not being powerful and clear enough. I've definitely improved a lot in the last few years.
I'd love to try out your drum mixing/processing suggestion but I can't say I totally understand it, which is why I'd love a further bit of clarification. I use Toontrack's Superior Drummer and multiple kits in a track, some of which often play simultaneously. I've still never done a track with only one kit!
I do have some drum processing technical limitations and don't seem able to output all the separate Superior drum mixer channels in Cubase though I'm sure some people do it in their DAWs. So, I can't even automate each kit part's volume level or panning. However, that does mean that I do a lot of careful velocity trimming of lots of hits, which can have the same effect as reducing/boosting their volume (plus a change in timbre, of course).
I think what you're saying is that I could do better if I applied reverb to, say, only a snare and left the rest of the kit dry.
Perhaps the muddiness in the mix here is caused by the heavy synth sub bass. Maybe that's more the culprit than the drums.
Perhaps you could start a forum topic on your drum processing point and I'd comment there, as might someone like Mahloo.
"there's so much good playing going on here it's pretty amazing"
Thanks very much for that as it does mean something, especially coming from you.
Thanks for the extended review!
on All Woman featuring Lisa Worth by RichieWinn
It's great to here from you. I am in Auckland at the moment and flew from UK via Melbourne. Next time I'll take a few days and we can have a beer somewhere.
Thanks very much for your really kind words. It is so rewarding to hear the commnets from someone who not only has an educated ear but who is also a gifted musician and producer too. Thank you so much.
I guess I'm still learning with all this and always trying to get the very best out of what I have. Lisa is truly accomplished and a pleasure to work with. We hope to do some work as a duo next year too.
One upgrade to my system is a valve pre amp which has added a warmth to the vocals and guitar I could never achieve before. Valve mic is next.
OK good to here from you and hope all is well.
Best
Richie
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on javafan by Kikajon
on Clear Skies by LosCoz
Cheers and thank you for taking the time to listen!
on wall of bass by lostjoe333
on hot coffee by promenade2239
thank you so much for listening to my music and all kind words! I was thinking a lot of creating something new and sending you some materials but still I will probably need more time with all this. I am busy (and struggling) with real life currently (I will try to explain it more precisely soon) and there is only a little space/energy for practising keyboard playing that is available. Opening the daw and fooling around there is always much easier than serious practising, needless to say. Over last weeks I was working on the transcription of one Keith Jarrett's piano piece from the 'Koln Concert' and want to record it on my old upright piano. This is very ambitious project haha.
Now, right at this moment it is a rainy Sunday early morning of very hot summer and I have some free time for working out the piano today, maybe I will message you at the end of a day when something interesting will come up!
Also soon or later I will make my version of the 'Pelican Feet' project but I need more time to get into funk playing. That's the challenge.
Thanks again for pointing Joe Zawinul! I discovered some of his older recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xufea3dGCjo and this is an excellent stuff to learn from. I really want to develop some stylistic bebop elements and acquire more licks. Bebop is always the basic and probably most important foundation. I will try to work transcribing and internalizing some of the patterns from that video sometime.
'Hot Coffe' was played on Roland JunoDi - I was inspired and finnaly bought better hardware synthesizer. Maybe I will be getting even more of the professional hardware equipment in the near future. I will write you if so! There are some classic synth sounds but also fine electric pianos presets there. I am happy because I do not need plugins to create. I manipulated a lot simply with cutoff and resonance knobs when playing but I can't open the external editor software to check out the actual internal settings. The reso knob was probably assigned to change some other parameters of the sound which make that preset quite complex and interesting when performed.
Thank you again for the nice words. I really appreciate that. I do not know if I really deserve the comparision with such amazing players but anyway I will try to work more intense and keep up with! Thank you for a great inspiration!
All the best to you, Alex
on Unholy Interface by wordybum
prepare yourself for a couple more tracks from this band. i'd like to eventually share all 6 pieces from our last EP with the community.
on Through the windows of the night train by silverman
You were the fist guy to intrigue me when I first discovered the loop section and when the track section wasn'r noticed for a very long time.
I think your loops are increbiially inventive.
I've used them in a few tracks but mostly in the one I did called the film.
Thankyou for such encouregment.
I think I'm going to have to chill for a while as my brain is just satring to flood with Nitrazepam and Palexia. Very heavy mix but will have upright and pain free within a short while.
Right now I'm struggling to type.
If I've missed any please accept my apologies but I'll be back after some chemical indeuced stupour dreaming./
on Snake In The Past by Spivkurl
on Wolf in sheeps clothing by wordybum
on Full Moon---remix by zappo
Thanks Mate
I know I'm not the singer in the group ... lol
one of the instruments I play not so good
Zappo
on Used to be HIPHOP Rough draft by wordybum
contact me at planetjazzbass@gmail.com
again, thanks so much for letting me be a part of this. i will send the dry vox this week.
on Always Fine by mzzfedora