Ukrainian Sleigh Ride

[DavidK]

Did you play on it?

Yeah, I'm playing the violin solo and 3-4 of the backing string tracks.

 

[dobro]

Thanks.

 

[dobro]

All the strings on this are real.

There are 4 string players: 3 violinists and one cello. Each player did at least 3 tracks in addition to the solos, so the "orchestra" has at least 12 real string parts. This is true for the whole album I'm making, real strings.

You have an honest to god orchestra. Do you even think of yourself as fortunate?

If there are any synth strings, it's to fill in textures, but this is all real playing. That's a hotshot cellist playing the opening melody.

And at 3.24?

Almost everything is played "live" , even the sleigh bells. Very little quantizing on any of the tracks, the goal was to get it to sound as realistic as possible.

Benchmark. Cheers.

 

[DavidK]

And at 3.24?

1 cellist doing 3 takes, no synths.

Do you even think of yourself as fortunate?

Every day.

 

[sikter]

I hope I'm not wrong but you're David Kempers
I'm your huge fan. Since I heard your version of Suite!
I joined new band some years ago and start to gig again. My home recordings projects go slowly.

Anyway, I have no enough words in my vocabulary to describe how nicely your "Ukrainian Sleigh Ride" turned out.
I love it!
Now I have to play it for my wife and she's gonna say: "Here we go again"
Well done, David. Well done...

 

[TAE]

way cool David....heart string emotions being pulled on this one...... love it!
Great to see you here posting brother and thanks for sharing! We heard it here first!