Here's a short piece I'd like to get some feedback on if you have a minute. Well 2:45 actually I think it is. All comments and criticisms are welcome, thanks for listening.
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Hey Ingo. Very atmospheric. Nice minor blues in 6/8 (with some substitute chords like F7/9 and CM to keep us on our toes). Are you playing the guitar?
With a live group playing this, I could see the interplay of players kicking it up if it were to go on longer. A really fun spring-board. Thinking Coltrane, but perhaps that might not be in line with your vision.
I liked it! Thanks for posting!
Thanks Gregorio for listening and commenting. You have a good ear for the harmonies and influences here. I'm playing guitar and the other instruments are VST's . Trying to blend real and virtual is a challenge, for me at least. Coltrane is a big influence, probably more indirectly here because I'm more into Wayne Shorter's 'Footsteps' but it's all a line of influence that goes back to Impressionists and late Romantics, to my ear at least. It's good to have you around here, we've got a pretty good mix here lately.
"Trying to blend real and virtual is a challenge, for me at least."
Yes, me too. Lately I do one or the other, but haven't blended much. I pretty much rely on NotePerformer 3 for ensemble stuff - which has limitations, of course. Looking forward to the release of NP4!
"it's all a line of influence that goes back to Impressionists and late Romantics, to my ear at least"
Yes, there is a strong influence there for me as well.
"It's good to have you around here, we've got a pretty good mix here lately."
Thanks, Ingo. Awfully kind of you to say. Yes it's a colorful mix of composers currently. Really fun!
Whoa, man! This is really cool! Sonically and musically and the form and all that. Like Gregorio said, a live group with good solists (like yourself) this could smoke an audience for a lenghty jam. Nice guitar playing, too, and your sound is terrific, as is the sound of the whole production. Listened twice.... I'll be back. Keep going because you're making the VST and the real work nicely.--Ray.
Thank you Ray for the kind words. I used to play live but the complications got to be too much and computer recording is more fun and satisfying to me at this point in my life. Never say never I guess but still . . . .
Nice track Ingo! As a bass player, my ear naturally went there first, and I really liked the tight lock between that and the drums. But despite that, the biggest treat of all in this piece, for me, was the guitar - very nice lines, great tone and feel. Do you mind me asking what type of guitar you were playing on that? Cheers, Frank
Thanks for the encouragement Frank, it means a lot. That's a Les Paul guitar going through a Scuffham amp sim set to a Fender twin model. A virtual traditional set up if you will.
Interesting! I was going to guess a Gibson of some kind, but not necessarily a Les Paul (I thought maybe a 335 or something). Anyways, great sound. I like the "clean", unaffected approach.
Thanks Frank. I've gone back and forth with hollowbody vs solid body guitars and there's no clear choice for me at least. Like I told Dane, there are so many variables that affect the sounds of all of our pieces I just have to use trial and error a lot of the time to find something I can live with. There's delay, reverb and some other stereo effects on this track but no distortion or chorusing. The amp sim adds certain frequencies too so at certain points the blend works fairly well. .
I had to jump back in once the guitar talk got started because I also think your tone is so good. And I'm not at all surprised to learn you played a Paul. After Page, Hendrix, Clapton, that bunch, I forget at times that the Les Paul, Tele, and Strat were designed when the primary use of guitar was for jazz and pre-rock popular music. In fact, on the older Lawrence Welk shows, the ones in black-n-white, the guitarist plays a strat. Ok....I'm shutting up now. -Ray
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