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Here's my most recent piece.
Written entirely in BM3.
Instruments used
iGrand piano for the keyboard solo
Squire Fender Jazzbass for the bass parts
Ibanez Artcore for the guitar solo
Drums and percussion sounds from
LoopLoft, Noiiz and the BM3 forum.
Audio processing apps used.
Nembrini PSA1000 Jr for the bass parts and solo guitar
Drambo,
Haaze
Haaze 2
Blamsoft Zero Reverb
BM3's inbuilt compressor
Mastering Chain
Joemeek opto compressor
Toneboosters Eq
JAX Stereo Tool
JAX Make Louder
Enjoy
Comments
This is a great one, Ishmael. I hadn’t heard your jazzistry before. iGrand throughout? Sounds surprisingly good in the solo (the app, I mean).
I would have liked hearing the piano come back. Not enough of that excellent piano expression. Do more of this shit, please!
Great piece of music. The beginning with the piano reminded me of Chick Corea’s “Planet Chia”.
And when the guitar comes in at 2:40 i immediately thought of Stanley Clarke’s “Power” (listen at 4:0).
So, like someone we all know very well would say “cool beans”.
Thank you Michael.
iGrand throughout? Sounds surprisingly good in the solo (the app, I mean).
Yup.
It's consistent in it's sound.
I will do.
I've been learning so many apps.
The combinations are mind boggling.
As and when.
That's good company.
Again good company.
Yeah, cool beans.
Thank you.
That's a Killer track from every point of view.
If you have the energy to pull it off I'd love the hear a "head" that combines your keyboard and guitar skills as one then 2 solos in the middle section and a return to the "head" for the recognition factor of the classic jazz/fusion solo based tune form. I just think the combination of your 2 musical talents coordinated would be a treat to hear. It doesn't have to be a downhill race like this one. A hip angular Monk like tune would be great over a slow funk groove. If you want to get brave... harmonize the 2 voices or do something contrapuntal with overlapping lines.
I want fingers like that. Good job!
Wonderful!! A very positive & driving energy around that funky, natural-sounding rhythm although it's a 6-6-8.
Very classy. 👍🏼👏
Thank you.
I haven't done a classic A/B/A in years.
I'll give it a go.
Good point.
Now that you've mentioned it, I can hear it.
I like Monk territory though it can be scary sometimes.
The man was genius.
Absolute genius.
Thank you, good suggestions all round.
@Montreal_Music
Thank you
Awesome.
6/6/8, nice one.
I heard it as several bars of five and something on the end.
All I was thinking when I was writing was ,'I wish I had a drumkit'.
I'm treating this series as pre-production pieces.
I really would like a live band again.
Thanks.
I grew up with Roland drum machines and really enjoyed playing with the "last step" feature and combining different meters. Back in the days I liked a lot what Rush (or better, Neil Peart) did.
I did have a drum kit set up until a few weeks ago, not a real one but with mesh drum heads and a few real cymbals. I finally took it apart because I only used it very little and drum rigs eat up a lot of space.
My own lesson learned: Drums happen in my head and I don't need a hardware rig to compose.
The only ones I'd likely keep is one mesh pad (for recording more challenging parts), the Octapad and a real snare drum for the more organic playing styles.
Me too! Although it's exactly this kind of music that attracted the fewest people where I've been playing 😅
@rs2000
I had a drumkit and when I discovered
odd or unusual time signatures, it blew my mind.
We can actually play fractals? amazing.
As I'm not writing for any particular project
at the moment I'm writing for myself
and sharing it.
Yeah, with you there.
I really miss the workout more than anything else.
My head is filled with so much stuff.
So with you there as well.
It's so annoying.
Even when I've done covers gigs, my fingers go nope and rip into improvised solos.
Such a rebel. 😁
I really have to stay focused when I do those gigs.
A-B-A is more of a song form in my thinking. The Jazz/Fusion Pattern is a version of Theme and Variations. The harmonic progression is repeated fro the theme and used as the foundation for each solo (taking a chorus).
A-B-A would use different chords for the B section like Verse-Chorus-Verse. The sections contrast and don't tend to borrow.
I can tell that musically you're way beyond this small detail but there are readers here and
most of us just throw structure out the window and jam. Of course, a lot of jam music is based on loops. Korg Gadget won't let you compose without focusing on well defined structures of 16 (or less bars).
I like the structure Stravinsky used that were a lot like collages where his final work would be assembled in order from thematic blocks. There are great parallels between his music ideas and Picasso's visual ideas.
@LinearLineman was trained to start improvisations from internalizing a melody and singing it and playing it until it becomes ingrained in his mind and then to use it as a launching pad for exploring the possibilities he could conceive. He often references a project to a song and you can here some snippets of the inspiration in the improvised work but it's not a strict theme and variation technique because he changes a lot from the original in his journeys.
Miles Davis broke the song form model when he added rock players and made the "Bitches Brew" album which was a fusion jam concept of improvised music.
I think people like being exposed to an theme and hiving it repeat so they know it's almost over. Finally, something they can predict and get right about jazz. "They're bringing it home."
awesome jam!
Love it, I'd say it's, for my taste, the best thing I've heard posted on these forums yet.
Pretty damn impressive stuff. On all fronts.
I think I'll second that. Something to aspire towards in many dimensions: playing, production, mixing, composition/improvising. A cut above. Impeccable timing.
Uh, how I have enjoyed this!
where can we get your music?
I enjoyed watching you play the keyboard and would have enjoyed watching your guitar playing. But then again, I just closed my eyes and listened.
Thanks for sharing.
Agreed.
For the most part I'm self taught.
When I write A/B/A, that usually means play
the melody or melody variation twice,
once at the beginning and once at the end,
where A is the melody and the B section is for the solos.
Both the A and B section can have the same chords
or different chordal variations.
Melody is A, everything else is B.
I really like both artists.
It was after listening to Stravinsky that I started
making the connections in my head between classical and jazz.
Saying that, I didn't know they wrote like that.
Good to know.
I think many artists share this method without knowing it.
It makes it easier to pull together ideas after inspiration has struck.
I can hear the training.
There were no jazz courses available here in
the U.K when I was a teenager that I knew of.
Many of my generation are self taught jazzers and improvisers.
I learnt how to improvise on guitar by singing the notes.
If you can sing the part, then you can play the part
and that goes for every instrument.
I didn't know this.
'Bitches Brew', is an awesome album.
I hear you.
Thank you.
I'm honoured.
Respect.
Thank you.
You actually can't.
I haven't ever released any of my music.
I have quite a few soundclouds and my YouTube channel.
I complete a piece or a collection of pieces.
I sometimes upload them and then carry on.
There's too much music.
My pleasure.
Glad you enjoyed it.
You're welcome.
Well, you had a good teacher.
Well timed.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I'm pretty serious about the use of time but I can only guess what you're referring too here.
@McD
It's my sense of humour.
Though I don't mention it much but my musical journey
has been and still is primarily a journey of spirituality.
I was gifted my first guitar by a Paraguayan missionary
when he saw my passion for music.
I took it seriously.
Every piece I write is dedicated to the Higher Power.
In this context what many would regard as ,
'God', or the ,'Great Spirit', or ,'Nirvana'.
Each piece teaches me to communicate better.
The Higher Power is a great teacher and
a hard taskmaster hence my laughter.
So in both senses of your reply.
Well timed.
"Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life". - Ludwig Van Beethoven