ok...took a stab at it:
[sc]https://soundcloud.com/mark-wein/funkyjam-practice-run[/sc]
Mostly just trying some ideas out and getting used to the McFeely 440...first recording with it
here;'s the garbage I came up with.
drunk as a lord, and I don't know what to DO with this style...
https://www.box.com/s/ocw3covwdh7o394m94mj
I havent' even listened to it
[SC]https://soundcloud.com/wtfisarevolt/funky[/SC]
I'm kinda in the same boat as Peeker here. There's moments I'm not even sure what I'm doing other than WTF DO I DO NOW.
That's a lot of ideas you are throwing at the wall there Walter. Some of them work, some of them don't but there's always something new coming down the pike.
Here's my take:
http://madsound.dyndns.org/asbtunes/new/Funk.mp3
I used my black strat thru the VG-99 and set up a kind of cloudy fake synthesized strings (pitch transposer into modulation, chorus and delay with a little reverb) backing following what I play - giving everything a lot of space rather than cramming everything with notes.
Yeah...it was more of a "test the waters" kind of pass. Then I started messing with using the track as an exercise in working on playing in the pocket better and never went back for a final take. Maybe on Monday.
Playing in the pocket is really a different thing on studio/BT/overdubs than it is playing live. Playing live, if you think the groove is a little bit different, the rest of the band can adapt and come to you - a backing track does not care what you think so you are always following the existing groove. It's kind of like working with plastic vs. working with wood.
Is that 3 guitar overdubs? I like it - you have a nice Grant Green kind of thing happening in the single note lead guitar.
Good ear. This Must Be The Place by Talking Heads.
ok...took a stab at it:
[sc]https://soundcloud.com/mark-wein/funkyjam-practice-run[/sc]
Mostly just trying some ideas out and getting used to the McFeely 440...first recording with it
here;'s the garbage I came up with.
drunk as a lord, and I don't know what to DO with this style...
https://www.box.com/s/ocw3covwdh7o394m94mj
I havent' even listened to it
[SC]https://soundcloud.com/wtfisarevolt/funky[/SC]
I'm kinda in the same boat as Peeker here. There's moments I'm not even sure what I'm doing other than WTF DO I DO NOW.
Oh I definetely will play around with this one. Mark, I love the tone and lines on your take - it's stratty but you've got all these slippery licks snaking in and out. Gives me something to shoot for.
Peeker - I love your heavily FX'ed Hendrixian freakout! It's actually cool. It's like a freaked out 50s tone to begin with then it goes into the 70s, and then the 80s and 2000s!
Jeremy - it kind of seems like the type of guitar playing you might hear on Paul Simon's Graceland - kind of a South African thing meets early Talking Heads kind of thing.
Here's my take:
http://madsound.dyndns.org/asbtunes/new/Funk.mp3
I used my black strat thru the VG-99 and set up a kind of cloudy fake synthesized strings (pitch transposer into modulation, chorus and delay with a little reverb) backing following what I play - giving everything a lot of space rather than cramming everything with notes.
On further reflection, I think it is Genius Of Love, by Tom Tom Club.
:rawk: very cool, I particularly like all the altered/outside stuff with the rhythmic displacement "cramming in the notes" feel.
Wow... I'm going to have to listen to all of these, I've only listened to Mark's so far.
Mark... what's your signal path there? clean channel with compressor? It's so fat sounding!!!