Wolfgang and the Gang, by ArkRockStudio

Someone on Wikiloops took my brush playing and finger snapping from the “Unicorn dance” track to start a new and funny template:

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So except of myself who couldn’t be shown in it, the single musician so far is:

I’m curious if this will have some remixes. Hard to say, because it sounds almost complete (and like elevator music hahaha) 🙂

So I’m feeling honoured, thanks man! And thanks to anyone who listened to it! Try to finger snap over 3 minutes in front of a microphone, it ain’t that easy! 🙂

Nuestros corazones españoles

Awesome Spanish theme from Arnosolo, Jamlady, and Pewi – under which I just laid a bit of groundwork:

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List of musicians, so far:

Thanks for the great jam, my friends, and thanks to you, dear readers, for listening.

Edit, from late Sunday evening:

After uploading that track, I realized that I had missed Robjol’s remix – so I did another upload after his:

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And that makes the list of musicians to this one:

Thanks for listening again.

Those jazz brushes

And here’s my newest musical instrument, photographed with Mitchie’s camera (my own one is sent for repair):

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You can hear these brushes on the unicorn song from the last few posts (different versions).

Thanks for viewing.

The unicorn and rabbit dance

… and now it gets really cute, sweet, and lovely:

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List of musicians:

Many thanks go to “Jypeka” and to his adorable little girl 🙂 Isn’t Wikiloops a great place to be in? I just love it there! 🙂

Edit: here is Jypeka’s original version, starring Erin 🙂

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On this version, all drums & bass are from Arnosolo, not from me 🙂

Teach my unicorn to whistle

“Pewi” completed our little unicorn song in a quite wonderful way – and wow, that man can really whistle! Listen:

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Musicians:

Thanks to Arno, Shi, and Peter – and thanks to you for reading and for listening!

Beneath the waves

This is a premiere weekend. I not only uploaded my first track making noise with jazz brushes and finger snapping yesterday; today I also uploaded my first (music) video into my Youtube channel. It’s only a remix of what was there before, like the music in it:

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List of musicians:

And here’s the video I uploaded:

Thanks for reading, watching, and listening.

Teach my unicorn to dance

Such a wonderful track from Arnosolo and Shi – I just downloaded Arno’s first template (ukulele and guitar) and Shi’s vocals and added jazz brushes, finger snaps, and my bass. Sounds like this:

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Musicians until now:

Thanks for listening.

Don’t touch Eb

A few days ago I was searching for a capella pieces to improve my mixing / sound design skills. Found a short and sweet one from Shi, loaded it up into my DAW (digital audio workstation for the non-recorders amongst you), and got working. And when I thought it was quite ok, I exported it, and sent the result back to Shi. Looked like this:

Export of Shi's track in my DAW

Then I determined the tempo (88.226 bpm), and made a click track. And after the usual count-in, I let it click on the 2s and 4s, to get a feeling for the “groove” of the track. And then I took my bass, and started playing around with it.

Shi’s original title was “Don’t touch it!”, and because the song seemed to fit nicely into a simple 2-5-1 progression on E flat (Eb, in German called “es”), I thought about translating it to German like in: “Fass Es nicht an!”. But Wikiloops is an international platform and has an international audience, so I called it like in the title of this article. And here’s the result:

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Musicians, until now:

Thanks for listening.