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.

wikiloops operators address 2017

Revisiting this video from slightly over one year ago:

I’m a supporting member, and I still hit that ‘donate’ button this year already. And I’m asking each Wikiloops member who can afford it to do the same. Supporting Wikiloops is supporting ourselves. We have the best platform out there by far.

Thanks.

Virtual Realities by marmotte

What a surprise to find this great gift on this Sunday morning:

So classy, so great – and I’m so proud to be even included into her great work! Downloaded this one immediately (which by the by with 2,40€ costs next to nothing even for non-Wikiloops members, for supporting members like me it’s free).

So – my recommended listening for today, and also my album of the day (or week? month? Let’s see).

Zuleikha plays her composition “You stood by”

Our daughter allowed me to upload this on Wikiloops, where she also added the chord structure:

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And she’s collecting some thumb-ups and nice comments already, which is cool. Waiting for her to create her own identity in the ‘loops, so I could give her thumbs-ups as well (and maybe play some bass on some of her stuff?).

Thanks for listening.

It gets jazzier…

Fresh from the publishing press this evening:

Screenshot from 2018-10-31 23-31-43

Hear it here if you want. Download it if you like it.

Involved musicians:

Screenshot from 2018-10-31 23-30-48

Thanks for listening. I also set up a small link to this album in the widgets on the right, just like I did for the other three.

Update from Nov 1st:

And this morning, my newest was album of the day over at Wikiloops:

Thanks for reading, and for listening.

Rainforest Green / Fallen Skies

Two wonderful compositions from Wikiloops members which sound like they were made to be played after each other – enjoy…

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List of musicians:

This track is embedded with the friendly permission by the creatives on wikiloops.com.

List of musicians:

Thanks for listening.

Arvo by the billabong

Found a nice track from RobM (guitar) and Wade (Sax) to which I just added my bass:

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List of musicians:

In this track I used a virtualized effects pedal board called “Rakarrack”, on a separate channel in Ardour. Looks like this:

ardour_rakarrack

Thanks for reading and for listening.

Sister Imaginaire

An awesome composition from marmotte and from AnneCozean, so happy I had the chance and the honour to play on this one, in its pure Frenglish:

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List of musicians:

Merci encore mesdames et mes amis, vous êtes musiciens exceptionelles!

Update, Saturday evening:

Got a remix from Indyxpress on keys:

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List of musicians:

Thanks for listening.