Category: collaborations

FrankieJ remixed his nice guitar on our song which he recorded back in mid November already. Sounds much better now; here it is:

Thanks again, FrankieJ for your wonderful add to this 🙂

Thanks for listening.

Over at the ‘loops, I’ve put my albums into/onto my ‘Showcase’ tab of my user profile – which is the first any visitor would see of me (in case there’s anyone interested, but of the members I do indeed have some visitors from time to time). Looks like this:

Don’t know if that is any useful, and until yesterday evening I’ve never thought about it, but it’s another nice way to scroll, or to ‘swipe’ through my album collection, even if you could see it all before in my ‘Playlists’ tab as well (where there are also albums of others who were kind enough to include tracks with me in them).

Anyway, and as always, thanks for your interest, and for reading. And now, I’ll have to start working.

Picked the oldest track from my watchlist again, and played a little bass line onto it:

The current list of musicians on it:

Merci, thanks, and danke to my friends there at the loops, and thanks to you for listening.

I’m still processing videos of the PDS students while I write this, but some of my friends from Wikiloops are also active. And just a few moments ago I saw that Brian has uploaded a nice remix of a song on which I played as well. Here it is:

That makes the list of musicians as it is for now:

Thanks to Brian for this nice addition. And as always, thanks for listening.

I had this beautiful track from Tom & Devin on my watchlist since quite a while. And today I could finally add a little something to it:

List of musicians, so far:

Thanks to my friends over at Wikiloops for their wonderful music. And thanks to you for listening. Join us to add something.

Richard fixed the issue with the embedding of the Wikiloops player last night, and he tested it with my post “Blues Knows No Colour” on this blog. Cool; many thanks man!

So now I can try and show/play you the last remix I’ve got plus one that I had made for some friends (with mixing only, no bass needed in that one). So here they are:

Yup; works. And here’s the one I (re-) mixed:

Works as well. Thanks for listening, and if you’re a musician, then join and play with us on Wikiloops!

At Wikiloops, we have that concept of a ‘watchlist’, and mine got filled quite a lot recently. Each time I sit at work and listen to something where I think I could add something, I add it to this watchlist – so mine currently has over 100 gems inside:

At home, I’ll download all of these when I have the time, and start ‘working’ on them in my DAW (=’Digital Audio Workstation’). Convert MP3s to WAVs with Audacity first, then load them into Ardour. Set the tempo, check with a metronome, eventually make a clicktrack and/or a count-in. See if I can enhance the given audio, and it helps if you have single HD tracks because a drum kit or a guitar might need other treatments than a voice.

Often I also add markers where the chords change or to separate parts of the song so during recording I can see the structure.

And finally I’ll grab my bass and play.

And all of this is great fun. I’m learning so many different things. And I’m so glad that I found Wikiloops…

Played on a nice song from RobM, mpointon, jamlady, and ROBJOL (all Wikiloops usernames) yesterday, and since we’re not done with embedding the new Wikiloops player into WordPress, please consider listening to the song “Story…” at its source. This will also show you the list of musicians who participated so far, and some comments from other Wikiloopers.

Thanks for reading, and for listening.