A NEW FUSION tune of mine: check it out

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Well,

This is what I did today...I thought I'd share it with you...

It's one of my fusion compositions from a while back (1995), where I sequenced all the instruments...

Today, I laid these fairly complex and challenging
guitar parts and a solo...

It's a dark, brooding harmonic environment, that goes to an all out, burning, straight-ahead double time feel for the guitar solo...

Anyway, I've uploaded to webriffs.com for now, until I can get it up on my site, so that I could share it with you guys...

Enjoy...and let me know what you think...

It's an mp3 download:

(--don't let the download time scare you, it starts out pretty high and drops pretty rapidly, but it may still take 10-20 minutes
on a dail-up...sorry--)

Remember

Peace,

Scott
 
nice moody stuff going on in the beginning. there are a lot of cymbals going on. you've got some good keyboard chops too....so is the gtr your 1st or 2nd inst?:D I can see why your gtr part was challenging...so, you can play this back, note for note, 'cept the solo...eh?;) ...or that too? I liked it very much. If the cymbal volume could be diminished a tad, I think I'd like it better, with them being so buzy, etc.

btw, it's people's chops like yours, that made all the quitters at music school...do just that...quit!
I survived, because I realized that no one would have the same lousy sound/style as me, and that at least gave me some individualism:p

I give this only an A, not an A+, because of the cymbals.
decent job Scott..
Chris
 
btw, with my cable modem, I could start streaming after about 20 seconds of d/ling...but it would catch up after a min or so. ...so I just let it continue to d/l for a couple mins...5 max, while I read some other posts, came back, and was able to listen to the tune in its entirety (while the last 2 mins or so finished d/ling).

Now...the planaterium track was another matter. I actually had to get up out of my chair, go into the kitchen and get a snack, and come back after about 10 mins...or maybe a tad less....my snacks are frequent, but short!!
 
I'm streaming it right now as I type. 192 bitrate. DSL=Nice :D:D:D.

Once again Scott, completely amazing.
 
Listening to your tune again (trying to soak up some of that gtr solo playing into my repetoire), and still have the same feelings..awesome playing, etc. etc.

On the critical side, the cymbals still hit me as being loud, and around :55 or so...the song volume really seems to jump up. I tried to really listen to that being intentional, but it seems a little drastic to me. At 3:13, were the volume drops "back down", it seems fine...then it goes back up again. IT APPEARS the change in drum volume, with the same drum sounds is what sounds *artificial* to me...but I realize the drum volumes are probably not changed on the sequencing....or are they??

and...speaking of canned drums, you know, I have almost really started to prefer the timing and sound of them, because, to me, especially in this style of music(fusion, etc), this is the kind of drumming I always heard from groups like Mahavishna, and others..Cobham, in particular. I made a comment about a guys metal tune with the dbl bass sound being artificial, because it was so machine gun like, but I guess there are albums with that kind of sound too. Listen to some of Madonnas stuff (if you can bear it!), and I think the drum programming/sounds on her stuff is usually fantastic, along with the rest of the instruments too. No comments on her vocals, at this point;)
 
Good playing....

I don't care for the drum balance at all -- the cymbals are too harsh, almost like you over-EQ'd them with highs. They are also too loud in the mix -- especially for this type of material, they should be more "delicate."

As well, your bass level is too inconsistent - sometimes it's too present, other times it drops out completely.

You've got nice chops, and the playing is good, now you've just got to get your engineering skills up to the same level as your playing ability!

Bruce
 
Scott,

WOW! That's all I can say about this one. Rediculous speed on those leads. Quite sick! I agree with the cymbal comments.
Excellent! Well worth waiting for.

It only took 5 minutes to d.l.


Also, I checked out your equipment,
"this ain't no homerecording, keep it fair bro!" ;)
 
Thanks!!

Hey,

Thanks to all for listening...!!

And for clarity's sake...

The cymbals are a part of the overall drums/bass/keys tracks which are NOT able to be seperated, due to the equipment used, so with my experiments early on to reduce the annoying cymbal frequecies, it diminished the overall life of the mix, so I just lived with it..

It's a sacrifice, but to really go back that deeply into this old material, to re-sequence parts and seperate them out, would take more time than I have for this particular project...

It's really more of the end of a journey that I began back in 1992, to add guitar parts to these old tunes, and leave them a little better off than before, in the process...

I do appreciate the honest and kind critiques...!!

Peace,

Scott
 
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B.SABBATH said:
Scott,

Also, I checked out your equipment,
"this ain't no homerecording, keep it fair bro!" ;)
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Hey,

You might be referring to the equipment on the "Amazing Grace" and "Rise Up From the Ashes" recordings in other threads...done at my church...

But these fusion tunes truly are from my own studio...

Peace,

Scott
 
Scott..
yeah...I can definately relate to going back and not wanting to *re-do* old music, as one always wants to do something new, and in my experience, always thinking that your new stuff will always be better than the old.

I'm suspecting you meant to inply that the sequenced music was all conbined and you are NOT able to go back and separate the parts as opposed to:
"The cymbals are a part of the overall drums/bass/keys tracks which are able to be seperated, due to the equipment used, so with my experiments early on to reduce the annoying cymbal frequecies, it diminished the overall life of the mix, so I just lived with it.."

And...I detect the same laziness as me...putting lead gtrs on old sequenced music...ha!! I love it...I'm not alone;)

btw, what do you have for a setup for your personal stuff? Inquiring minds want to know:D
 
mixmkr said:
Scott..
yeah...I can definately relate to going back and not wanting to *re-do* old music, as one always wants to do something new, and in my experience, always thinking that your new stuff will always be better than the old.

I'm suspecting you meant to inply that the sequenced music was all conbined and you are NOT able to go back and separate the parts as opposed to:
"The cymbals are a part of the overall drums/bass/keys tracks which are able to be seperated, due to the equipment used, so with my experiments early on to reduce the annoying cymbal frequecies, it diminished the overall life of the mix, so I just lived with it.."

And...I detect the same laziness as me...putting lead gtrs on old sequenced music...ha!! I love it...I'm not alone;)

btw, what do you have for a setup for your personal stuff? Inquiring minds want to know:D
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Thanks for catching the typo!!!

I went back and changed it...

And I have to disagree with the "laziness" tag...though I know you meant no malice...

I am incredibly busy recording, playing, arranging and writing all day, every week, and this is an old project...

I write for live players all the time, but this is, again, is just an old project I wanted to put my last stamp on...

My set up is a Graphite iMac with the free ProTools system, the Roland JV-30 and D-550 for the fusion stuff, and the Korg Karma for all my new projects... I use the POD, the Vetta, and other various pedals and processing...and I use Acid Pro 2 for much of the drum loop programming I do now...

My Mac Classic II ran those old sequences...
 
Sjonesmusic said:


And I have to disagree with the "laziness" tag...though I know you meant no malice...

I am incredibly busy recording, playing, arranging and writing all day, every week, and this is an old project...
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You're correct 200%, no malice intended, and I can only imagine from your web page, credentials, and the quality of work you produce, you put in a 30 hour day, somehow sqeezed into 24.

maybe in my sentence;
And...I detect the same laziness as me...putting lead gtrs on old sequenced music...ha!! I love it...I'm not alone .
... I should have replaced the word laziness with the word "enjoyment". That would have more closely resembled what I was trying to say....even though I'm still lazy and like to shred over pre-sequenced material, when I wanna just have some fun, and need a quick rhy. section:p
 
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