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The Rip Off - Daveypoo, The Mobile Music Minstrel
My tribute to (and inspired by) great Soul Jazz musicians. There are a few referenced within, but there are too many to mention. I hope I did them some justice.
@McD & @LinearLineman - I think you both in particular will dig this one. I hope so, at least.
Comments
Excellent tribute to a great era in jazz. When they played for the audience more than the musicians. It was still listening music but it’s roots were in dance rhythms. Happy Blues in a way. A celebration of life.
I dig your attention to the articulations where the end of a note is as crucial as the start to make a statement and create an attitude.
Thanks, @McD - It's my favorite era of jazz for that very reason. The players could get as heady as they wanted, but it was happy music meant to be fun, danceable and accessible. I've never understood the snobbery surrounding Bop - I prefer that sweet spot between '68 & '72 when everything was just groovy, man.
This is so damn good!
Nice work.
@JeffChasteen Thanks a lot - it was a lot of work to get this one listenable. I'm so glad you liked it!
Did you use any BPM adjustments on the solos or are you just getting your keyboard chops together. The repeated notes on the piano seem impossible on most key beds. Just curious if your chops are getting upgrade.
The electric sax solo is genius. What is the source of that sound? Layered apps?
No BPM adjustments - everything was played, even the slow down at the coda. I have a few tricks up my sleeve but I insist on playing everything in some way. The piano was done with the Minilab as always.
The sax was Geoshred Tenor running through Eventide's QVox for that octave-down, Eddie Harris Varitone vibe for the head. For the sax solo I ran that through a filter in MixBox for the wah wah. I'm not very fluent with Geoshred so I used the filter to help de-emphasize that the sax was digital.
Eddie Harris' Varitone was much more subtle than I went for here, but then again he knew how to play a sax, whereas I don't so I needed to blur the tone for believability and to help make it sound less stiff.
Nice. I bought a Minilab after you told me you used it on a prior track. Very nice to know if can do those rapid repeated notes too. Excellent keyboard skills here… you’re getting better and better.
It's a continual work-in-progress, man. That and many, many, many takes.
So many takes.
I can only imagine the effort it took to pull it together AND craft the video to narrate the soloists being emulated musically. Epic work. You have raised the bar indeed.
Thanks, @McD - I'm so ad you enjoyed it. I've got more in the works so stay tuned.
I’ve got no where else to go so I’ll just keep looking for news of yet another reverb I simply must own. $50 this week chasing reverb tails. I need to get a life.
Sue just got out of surgery so I’m back in hospital visiting duty. Hopefully the last time for a good long while this time.
I'm on a mission to use every app I have. Picked up a couple synths recently but I've got a ton of reverbs and I usually only use 2-3 regularly...
I'm on a roll with the tunes lately and I've not been inclined to buy anything new. I've got too many I bought and never used so I'm trying to change that as I can and reach for alternates when possible.
Fingers crossed that you both get to be hospital-free for a long while. Hang in there, man.
Love Eddie Harris. I caught him live twice, once with Les McCann. At that one he started complaining that his mouthpiece wasn’t right, and that he would sing the rest of the gig. I was disappointed at the announcement, but it turned out to be really good. He just sang all his solos, singing anything he would have played on the horn, including the Freedom Jazz Dance-type licks. What a talent.
We have a local tenor player that didn’t put his neck piece back in the case before a gig 39 miles down south. So, he sang all his tunes too. I guess it’s a thing and insures you still get paid if the owner is not a weasel.
Great tribute.
Love your musical composition.
You are an app artist, musically talented.
Enjoying this recording.
Rene
Oh, man, I saw your subject line, and I thought you got ripped off on a caffè or something
@Wrlds2ndBstGeoshredr @McD Any true musician should have internalized the music to the point where they can sing their parts, but music has changed and I don't think this is common any more. I was always taught that if you can sing it you can play it and the masters I admire have proven this true. Great stories!
@ReneAsologuitar I'm flattered, but the app is just the vehicle to get the tunes out. It takes a lot of patience and time, but hey - time is what I got. So glad you liked it.
@johnfromberkeley Nope, it's me doing the ripping off. The head was "inspired" by something composed by Lalo Schifrin, but I'm not saying which tune! 😉
Inquiring minds need to know: what DAW did you use to assemble this masterwork?
Cubasis - it's the most stable DAW that works for me.
DIggin’ it Dave!
@Daveypoo
Thanks @Edward_Alexander - more groovy tunes for all you groovy peeps!
Yes very impressive. Amazingly realistic and a great homage to the era and genre.
Hey - thanks, @GeoTony
I'm really glad you liked it. If only I had the band to play it.... in lieu of that, I'll just have to program most of it
Thanks for listening and helping to bump this back to Page 1!
Wow, really organing out lately! Love it!
(Can you list what apps you used for the various parts?)
@Lady_App_titude I first got into Soul Jazz/Acid Jazz when I discovered funk while at University. I've been pining for the right bandmates since and finally got over myself to just do it. This is my home base, and I'm a closet organist trying to get these sounds out of my head. I'm really glad you dig it - your enthusiasm is super flattering as I really love your production. My tunes never sound as wide and fat as yours. Different styles sure, but still...
Anyway:
Hammond B-3X for the organ
Ravenscroft for the piano
Geoshred Tenor for the sax running through QVox for the octave-down, Varitone emulation and MixBox for the auto-wah
Digistix 2 for the drums using a Peter Erskine sample set
Skaka for the tambourine
A Kala U-Bass for the bass, run through the built-in Cubasis EQ to bump the mids, then through Nembrini PSA1000 and an Ampeg cabinet IR in Thafknar
MixBox on the output bus for some extra juice
Kleverb is my go to room reverb, so two of those on the sends, one for drums and the other for the rest of the instruments to simulate a live room.
That's it!
That’s a Kala U-bass? I did a re-listen just for the bass and my AirPods aren’t up to the task. I may import the audio in Koala and boost the lows to hear the tone quality of your U-Bass. Kala makes some good ones.
How is yours set up:
Fretted or fret less
Round wounds or rubber strings (black or tan)
I have a Hala knock off fretless with the soft tan rubber strings and it gives me that “ba-wow” acoustic upright sound like Ron Carter’s tone but obviously a cheap imitation. Still, size does matter when you have to pack up a lot of gear for inter-continental travel… is your Fender in storage? I suspect the answers explain why your digging into organ music on a 2 octave keyboard. Boundaries can lead to new levels of creativity.
Amazing work mate! You really nailed the sound perfectly!
@McD Yep - the U-Bass was used on the previous tune as well. It's fretted and has flatwound strings on it (special U-Bass flatwounds). I also added a thumb rest so it's more comfortable to play. I've been getting some excellent tones out of it. The rubber strings were fine but I didn't want to constantly adjust my technique and wanted to feel more fluent on the instrument - the flatwounds helped a lot.
A lot of gear is packed at the moment so you work with what you got. I was missing the tactile stress relief of the bass since it's my primary instrument, so the Kala was my Christmas present to myself.
Thank you @jwmmakerofmusic - so glad you liked it!
Great… Now I feel this overwhelming desire to order a Kala with frets and flat wounds.
Then I can put in in a closet and ignore it for a few years before I re-gift it to some talented kid at an open mic that’s playing some piece I of shit bass.
Literally packed? By those professional types that have boxes for everything or at least know how to pack it with bubble wrap? In what country are these boxes housed? Are they waiting for you to find your forever home?
I don't want to share too much detail publicly but it's packed by us and we're waiting to ship it until we have some more funds. We're in our new home now but the cost of populating our home with the basic essentials for a family of four has taken priority. Hopefully we can set that shipment in motion in the next few months.