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    April Composition challenge No-fool , Honest , its here

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    I've now rolled it in 3 coats of glitter and 2 coats of oak-stain varnish, so here's some ambient grooves in both 6:8 and 4:4 time. Possibly.

     

    Bass is a Sandberg, synths by AAS Iris and BassStation, drums sequenced from Ableton and EZ Drummer sounds. Guitar = Strat. Delays and reverbs by Raum, Objeq and Dubstation. Plenty Neutron 3 and Ozone 9 and MixRoom and BassRoom eqs, comps, limits etc.

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    How was Your rehearsal last morning or night ?

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    We had a 0929 Saturday rehearsal too - 2nd one with our new guitarist.

    We told him not to worry about playing what our old guitarman did, to make it his own, and it's definitely got punkier, though in a good way! His rhythm playing is excellent, he improvises little bits of twiddle here'n'there where before there was nowt, and now there's a bit more sparkle. He's young (well, 30s!) too!

    Not only that but I've got him to duplicate some of my linking bass runs that were previously lost under a power chord - it'll add to tightness and interest.

    Though when I asked him how well he knew his modes as we had a tendency to slot in (more than) the occasional Phryge (😁) he said " I thought I was joining a punk band!" to which we all chanted in Gregorian "punk is in the eye of the be-ho-ol-der!".

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    Paid gigs for amateur musicians......?

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    9 hours ago, Stub Mandrel said:

    A real jam is playing along to a song you've never heard before by ear

     

    6 hours ago, tauzero said:

    I can do that. I call it free-form jazz

    That's not exactly free-form jazz! That's playing by ear...

    This is a touch more free-form, but not quite free-improvisation. If you need some of that. try Han Benninck, Evan Parker, Lol Coxhill (*) or Derek Bailey!

     

     

    * I briefly played in a free-funk-jazz thang with some of Lol's sidekicks! Though we aimed for extended relatively straight funk jams over variously sensible and crazed saxes.

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    How much backing track is too much?

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    19 minutes ago, BigRedX said:

    The problem is that IME most "monster" players that I see being heralded on here and similar music forums, are musically boring and wouldn't recognise a decent tune/song if it slapped them around the face.

    I feel that "musically boring" is something that's highly debatable... It's like saying that a discussion of surface tension is chemically boring (*), or set theory is mathematically boring!

    For those that relish complexity in their music, playing modal progressions in 13:8 time is musically very interesting indeed. Those same people, when hearing a simple 3 chord ditty in straight-ahead 4:4 might say it's "boring" - but that's only to them. Others may find that simplicity is what they like, and complexity is, to them, boring.

    But at the end of the day it's all subjective; I personally find Oi bands to be deeply dull and like a bit of crazed widdling though an Oi fan would be the opposite to that.

    Same goes for "decent tune". I mean, which is better, Donna Lee or The Birdy Song? 

    As for backing "tapes", we shall continue to use 'em - though in our case it's a laptop playing Logic; our guitarman fiddles with fx and stuff on the fly.

     

    * to be fair it's a bit dull, after all, the Langmuir Trough experiment was what Thatcher worked on!

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