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I thought she was named after 2 pints (Dual IPA).
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Same here 😏 Though the best looker has left & the oompaloompa is looking dafter.
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I genuinely don’t get why someone would hate slap. It’s like saying you hate drums with toms or you hate the violin played without a bow, or even just like saying “I hate the sound of a picked bass“. It’s all about the musical context. Bass is part of the rhythm section & playing a good slap part that fits nicely with the drums is a thing of beauty. Yes, there’s many YouTube videos that sound like someone playing bedsprings with chopsticks, but there’s a lot of great stuff out there too. All I can say is stop being a musical snob & open your mind.
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In all seriousness, I do like a bit of slap when it’s well done, it can sound very impressive. I used to not be a fan of slapping, but that was when I couldn’t slap. I’m still not very good at it, but I do appreciate the skill to make it sound good. Slap is more a rhythmic style than melodic, but there’s many examples of good melodic slapping.
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The Mrs is partial to a bit of slap. Sorry, wrong thread.
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Here's a question... Do any of you play/rehearse/jam online with any other musicans from your church? I've thought about it, but I don't know how many of the others have the capability (especially drummers & singers).
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Thanks Dad. Hopefully once I get vocals on it, it’ll come together better. The guitarist has the track without guitar & I asked him to feel free & either expand on my ideas, or come up with some of his own (he’s good at coming up with good hooks). Anyway, Oi! What d’you mean “punished” you with!!!! This month’s entry from me has a tasty female vocal on it. I was told on soundcloud that it’s not deep house, but jazz! So you should like it. 😂
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I'm working on a song that I'd like to properly finish. I've got a guitarist who's going to redo the lekky guitar parts & I'm gonna redo the acoustic & bass, but I'd like to get feedback from the BC folk on the overall sound. How can I improve the mix? I've grouped things together to busses (drums to one, Piano & strings to another, etc) & spent a little time trying to EQ & pan to get things sitting in place, but I feel it could still be better. Should I take the master bus effects off, bounce it & then properly master it (ir should I master it as it is)? I'm in the process of writing lyrics & hope to have a good singer for it. Anyway, here's the track...
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Haha. I forgot how crap that amp was. Just burn it.
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This is probably why most worship music is very basic in the musician parts. So you can get given a chord chart at the last moment & all you’re doing is following them to a tempo (& probably why most of them don’t drop out when the MD says “breakdown”, lol). Pre lockdown, most of the band would turn up at about 10 to set up & run over songs. Service started at 11:15, so by the time soundcheck was done, there’d be no time for any rehearsal. The recordings for online are totally unrehearsed & mixed by armitage shanks.
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Our church is kinda stuck between the two. It’s got a large pool of players & singers, but only a few are good. The rest don’t seem to improve at all, which is a shame. There’s a couple of decent singers (which are reluctant to go for singing lessons for some strange reason) & a load of shower singers, one being a WL (she can sing in tune, but her vocal tone is not good). For me, playing in church is testing. With the “here’s the setlist” 3-4 days before, no band rehearsal & last minute key changes, if it wasn’t for the glory of God, I’d be out.
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I went from GarageBand to Logic a good few years ago. It's a lot of kit for the money. Look at it as a fully unlocked and expanded version of GarageBand. Everything has so much to it, but they've managed to keep it very user friendly, so if you just want to write & not spend ages going through things like programming synths & setting up effects, then the presets are ready to use & only need a minor tweak to suit your taste. I used to have Reason, but that was when it was 2.5. It was very much just for electronic stuff back then, though I know it's come a long way since then. It's hard to choose a bad DAW these days. It's down to what's going to suit the style of stuff you want to do (though you can really do any style on any DAW).
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OK, I'm in for this month. Saw the pic & figured it had to be something mechanical. Created a bass sound on Equator2 & another on Serum. Got some vocal samples off Splice that I felt fitted the image & put them together to form some sort of track. The drums are a mix of heavily processed samples & then I needed to make a wee break. Surge synth provides the organ sound. So the quad biker is the lady singing the song. She jumps from the top of the hill & feels on top of the world. Hears a clink & feels like a drop-in. It's very much deep house & the bass doesn't work on small speakers or phones, so all you'll hear is the drums on there. I might go back to it & add/alter if I get time.
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Yup. A friend let me hear them a few years ago (along with Aparat & Moderat). They’re fantastic.
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Been listening to a lot of them & Aparat.
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Just going over the songs again for tomorrow evening's recording. The bridge in Awake My Soul by Hillsong really goes a Steve Harris galloping bassline. Don't know why they didn't do that instead of the crochets (Maybe that's as fast as the bassist can play? He's their good bassist... He know's 5 notes 😂).
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I get that CCW is church pop music, but it’s still no excuse. Pop music can have good music & even break away from a derivative of 1, 4, 5, 6. Theres a lot of great CCW (Elevation have a lot of great stuff), but at the same time, there’s a lot of cookie cutter guff that I dare say much of the congregation don’t particularly like either. Sing his praise again by hillsong is a prime example of this nonsense.
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Oddly enough, I was listening to that song last week, along with a few other Ron Kenoly tracks. I don’t get how gospel has amazing musicians, but CCW has some of the lamest To me, praising God should be bringing your best, not your least.
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Well seeing I’m not a singer (I can’t sing at all). Though the odd thing is, I’ve never had to change song key in any of the secular bands I’ve played in. 🤔 & I still don’t get why even the female led songs get a key change too when it’s females singing. 😂 Anyway. Here’s someone making a very good point about worship bass in a rather humorous way...
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When this came out, Drum n Bass was a fairly new genre. This took it to another level & led the way for countless great mainstream DnB & Breakbeat tracks. LTJ Bukem is also worth a listen, though he’s more towards the jazz side of DnB.
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Love Roni Size’s New Forms album. Some great bass lines on there.
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I still don’t get why the Singists can’t just learn to sing in the original key to save all this bother? Don’t the originals get written in a key that suits the congregation?
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A couple of the musicians in our church use onsongs. It looks like it could be useful. I usually just Chuck the tracks in Logic & use a pitch changer I still don’t get why every song has to be in a different key from the original, even the ones that are sung by females (it’s all female worship leaders in our church)?
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That’s happened before. I got the chord charts, which are always in a different key from the originals & likely to change on the day. The saving grace is every worship song we do uses a version of 1, 4, 5, 6. So I’ll probably play some U2 bass lines.
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I’m recording 9 songs with a stripped down church band on 1st March. Just got the set list today. 3 of the songs I don’t know. It’d be nice to get the songs a bit earlier so I can actually learn them & not wing it along with a chord chart, but this seems to be the norm with church worship leaders. 😶
