yet...still more (banjo crap!) A mix of JIM

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we don't need rest!!
this is just an intro really...kinda drawn out, I suppose... not much to it musically but some sounds and a little picking on top. Still experimenting with banjo sounds, etc. So...really just a snippet. (I like doing snippets, because you're not obligated to full songs!)

More interested in musical comments, I suppose, but anything else, of course.

This one is called (intro) a mix of JIM
http://www.nowhereradio.com/artists/9/1322/album43.shtml


oh yeah...the chainsaw sound (you'll know when you hear it) actually started as a banjo .wav file... Then played with the WAVES bundle...!!
 
Well it was an idea

Maybe not a great one on this piece. The sudden stereo split and then back on the banjo is nothing but distracting. It adds nothing to the piece. The chainsaw sound--if you want to keep it--drop it way back in the mix. Forget the flanging stuff. You can't fix the lack of a melody with digital tricks--you will have to add melodic parts to this piece to make it musically appealing (at least to me).

I also thought the intro was a bit long.

The actuall sound of the banjo is a little heavy in the midrange and could use a little more on top but it is generally not bad.

Just my opinion.
 
pretty cool mix.. some crazy panning going on.. the banjo riff sounds very similar to the other one except faster.. I like it.. I can picture the whole song being an intro.. Like as soon as it ends going into something monsterous.. on the 5th listen and still not sure what to make out of it, but I do think it's quite cool.. I like the banjo sound.. very interesting stuff to be doing with a banjo.. keep it going..




What's with all the guys names for songs? Jim, Joe? Are they your boyfriends?

:)
 
Cool. Starts out the the Macerana (s?) though.

Musical ideas... My first thought was a simpler drumming pattern might work better. Actually, by about the :50 mark you've switched to a simpler pattern. So forget that idea.

I know... symphony orchestra. And a kazoo of course.

Geez, I don't know. String section?

I liked the buildup. Might have progressed a bit slow.
 
Maybe it should be called "(conclusion) a mix of Gin" :D

Actually I thought it was pretty cool. The banjo part sounded a little too much like your other one though.

Keep experimenting!
 
B.SABBATH said:
What's with all the guys names for songs? Jim, Joe? Are they your boyfriends?

:)
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Oh boy, here we go... :)



Some cool ideas mix. Didn't like the panning. Cosmic banjo dude? ahhh no. :) And while we're busting balls here, that riff kinda sounds a little like the Joe tune. But tighter. Like Joe.

:eek:

But, these snippets are cool to be doing. Little jams like this often carry the seed for a full song. In fact, I still get "Destinations" in my head now and then.

Keep 'em coming...
 
Here's my 2 cents..... and I'm not a keyboard player. I mean for me to turn out a decent organ track I have to record it twice (once with each hand). But the problem with most keyboard tracks that are doing a banjo or a guitar is that notes aren't combined the way the string instrument would combine them. Not many banjo players play a whole song 1 note at a time. Same with guitar players. The guitar is designed for combining 1sts and 4ths or 1st and 5ths or whatever really easily for different sounds. Single notes that are ment to sound like the instrument often don't sound like the instrument to me.

Does that make sense??

The keyboard and the mix on this sound awesome to me though. But like a keyboard to me. I wish I could play like that and compose like that on a keyboard. I can't at all.
 
kjam22 said:
But the problem with most keyboard tracks that are doing a banjo or a guitar is that notes aren't combined the way the string instrument would combine them.
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Unless I have quite seriously misunderstood mixmkr's last three posts, this is a banjo.
 
You're probably right. It sounds like a keyboard doing a banjo to me.
 
Nice mixmkr,

Give yourself a little time and you'll move up to the $50.00 picks pretty soon :D


I enjoy blending of styles and instruments.
I look forward to your future pieces.
 
Workout tape goes in... Jane Fonda in leg warmers... aeeeeeee!!

Banjos from Space. Too much low mid? Somewhere in there... 300-500... multi-band compress it, maybe... or a cut? (bjo track only)... otherwise, it's cool... like bnjo w/super chorus on 'im.

Great filter sweeps!

The banjo's timing is stiff... or is it giving me a stiffy? :eek: Oh well... take your pick :p

A good start. Now, go tell your narrator you've got another song about Jesus ready for her, remove the banjo, and post the remix!! :eek: :p :D ;)



C
 
Well the first two songs I listen to now that I'm back are your two banjo tunes......must be the call of the banjo. I like them both......my comments on this are basically the same as the other tune....good full banjo sound first off.....so many people miss the body of the sound and just get that high-end.....but you've got it sounding good....a good overall sound too but I feel the banjo really shines.

As for the music ...... I like it quite a bit. The juxtaposition of this rural instrument alongside a modern sounding rhythm section is very cool. I'm hoping you're gonna develop this whole concept.....it's very cool.
 
thanks Lt.... that makes me feel good:D as I for sure plan on wanting to kinda "delve" into this format some more. I don't have any friends that do the same thing, so that keeps me from looking like them as well!!

As far as the rest of this motley crue ripping me a new asshole, it's hard to sit down now!!!:p

I figure if I take away the banjo effects, dump the flanged part especially, forgo any reverb, and especially the goofy panning, my post will be reduced down to ZERO!! Saves on storage space at nowhere!!

And...all you banjo "wannabees" (lol!).... of course it sounds the same as my other file. I only know ONE WAY how to "three finger pick" at this point. But...there are different chords. HONEST! ..but it is a 'little' different. BTW, as a banjo player, just because all the songs sound the same, doesn't mean we all look the same and drool identically too!

but... like anyone cares....I've always been a nut for goofy panning since the Hendrix days, and was trying to get kinda a call/answer thing going with the banjo... kinda like two guitars might do. But I guess I have to do "Dueling Banjos" for that one!! That one is still a little in my future for now.
As far as the names...JIM< JOE>>>etc... no sabb...not boyfriends.. COUSINS!!! Next one JED!! as in the ballad of Jed Clampett. (that one is a tuffy to play, and someday hope to post it all for you nutcakes!!)

thanks,
sloop
bsabbath
triplem
skids
slucie
kjam22
jcmm
participant,
AND ESPECIALLY LT. BOB !!! ..actually ALL you guys...thanks VERY MUCH.

btw, kjam22...yeah...that's a real banjo, unfortunately;)
 
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oh and, Jcmm... I see you caught my other post about the $30 picks.

You'd be supprised at how much that helped my playing. They don't really look that much different than the $.95 ones, but they are MUCH more comfortable, and really do improve my playing quite a bit. As I said in my other post, these will last as long as me (being stainless steel), as long as I don't loose them, and in the scope of what I spend on instruments, cases, lessons... it really doesn't compare to being that much. BUT, I KNOW, the pick manufacturer is just raping the buying market with this because he KNOWS he has a good thing going. I am in the wrong biz.:mad:

I'd thank you guys all again... but I still can't sit down just quite yet!!
 
One last thing.

NO ONE sayed anything about my bass part being ONE NOTE playing 1/8th notes for the ENTIRE PIECE. I am ashamed of you guys;)

it was ALL about flanging and panning!! I know...it's supposed to be about the mixing clinic...not the song clinic!!! HA!


I suppose flat9 will drill me a new one if he gets around to this one for the bass line!!

btw...it's called a pedal tone! ho ho ho!
 
I have never heard the banjo in this kind of atmosphere before, I like it.

At 1:07 where it stops I found myself wanting it to keep going.
(maybe thats good though....creates tension)

I really like the banjo tag riff throughout the piece.

The one note bass seems to be a nice platform for everything to ride on.

Agree with sloop on the stero split.

Cool tune!

Robert Mark
 
I do have to agree with Steve that I'm hoping you do explore the concepts here a little further. I'd like to here a solid composition for the banjo with a soundscape like this, and you're the dude to pull it off. Hell, when you're more comfortable with the instrument, add some cool guitar effects to it and see where it takes you. Maybe you'll one-up Hendrix.
 
Cool! I dig it. I even like the wild panning stuff. I hope to see this go into a really kickass song.
 
Being a fellow banjo picker - I guess I have to respond but it took me a while to collect my thoughts. This is a tuff one - but I have an idea (not that you asked or care). You mentioned the "call and response" motif - where I hear that happening is way in the background. When I'm listening to the up-front banjo parts they don't seem to fit but when you're in the middle of that panning-moving-it-around-twiddling-the-dials mode there comes a point where the banjo is way in the background yet it's distinctive sound is undeniable. There's the call and response - modern calling old, or, better still, finite tempting infinite.
The soundscape (great word) is really nice and the pedal point (thanks for knowing what that is) draws my ear to a finite point - tonic. But the open, arpeggiated 5ths on the banjo pose that eternal 'musical question' so now I've lost my reference point. So now you're in control. But the in-your-face banjo part doesn't allow the effect to happen because it's too obvious - to me.
I'd be plugging away on an idea like that if I could re-create it musically. But I have no keyboard prowess and I don't share the same headspace. What would impress me is if you could get that pedal point to move cleverly to another chord - (ooooohhh, the cycle of fifths!) without anyone really noticing. Keep going. Electronic music has to be really, really good to make me listen - and I listen to yours - on the Autobahn.
Whewww - I need a drink.
MC
 
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