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Nice and thick. I love it. And don't worry about the drums if you're happy with it. Man, that kind of shit can drive you nutz. It sounds really good as it sits. Nice theme up front!

That sounds great, Mike! I know just what Steve is talking about and it's a fantastic idea. I'd run with that one. Another thing that you could do , if you want to try, would be a shorter snare sound. think of a two bar pattern and use a shorter snare for one bar and again on two of the next bar...on 4 use what you've got and maybe a little 1/8 note of predelay on a verb. It might make the track bounce a little more. But really, what you've got sounds good. Love the pads and lead stuff. What'd ya use???

I saw that on one of those America's Funny Vid's shows. Give that man a tic tac.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7nf4XAVjZk&search=elephant

Yea, pretty cool.. I've been doin' a single with it...

http://www.desktopblues.lichtlabor.ch/

Thanks Steve, I'll take that as a compliment. I've done a bunch of these things. The weirdest title for me that I did for firstcom was original children's tunes. Stuff like you might hear on Sesame St. and I had to get children to sing all of them. I earned my money on that one. Try teaching pre-schoolers songs they've never heard and record it and make the client say..."yes, that's what I wanted". If they don't, you do it again...As sad as it is, I enjoy it. Beats playing in the lounge and I've got something new to write everyday. I'm not too judgmental on the production music I hear either. I know how fast everyone has to work on the low budget stuff. Like yesterday, I did that and two sessions. You know the drill....There's no time to do your best, or money....

I think that this is the first time I've ever put any music up on this thread. I did this yesterday, it's the second one of these I've done this week. I was asked to do 10 cuts for a library and started on it Monday. My job is to give them 10 cuts @ 2.5 mins of "smooth light generic wallpaper", as they put it. You can copy/paste your butt off to make the 2:30. If you had to write/produce 2:30 of linear music, you wouldn't make any money. As you can hear, I only wrote maybe 24 to 32 bars and paste it all over the place. At 1:15 I paste the whole thing again to make the 2:30. No solos..they want changes with a pleasant melody. That's it. With this type work, just do it, mix it, and move on to the next piece. Commit and let go.On this one, I was going for a Laws/Klugh type vibe. Something you might hear in an elevator. That's the gig... elevator music. Here's a breakdown of the sounds. Kick/snare - scarbee hats - clearmountain crashes - rmx bass - trilogy clav - scarbee perc and nylon gtr - samplecell stuff I'm playing in machfive rhodes, flute,piano, strings,everything else... - motif es8 here\'s the tune...

Sorry guys, I've gotta bail. I started working with D.Blumberg and that eats all my free time up. But Geoff, this thread made me do it!Thanks!!

Good job, Tony. You played just what the song needed. Sounded like Al Kooper played the date.

Sorry guys. I totally flaked. I've got a lot on my plate right now. Somewhere around 25 gigs. You know the drill. each of them has 3 or 4 people attached and calling all day with changes and rewrites. Ad guys and AE's. Fun... Thank God for 'em. Move ahead and I'll catch up. Again.. I'm sorry, but I am going to see the symphony Thursday. Wednesday I'm going to dinner with ksober. He's here as the md for Joe Diffie. They're playin' some place down town.

Yea, me too. Slammed. How many notes do we have to write anyway....

Yo Mark.. heave you got the Diana Krall Live in Paris dvd. You can see him conduct.

After reading it I realized how much I had forgotten about the composers mentioned and their music. I haven't really listened to any of those pieces in years and I'm really unfamiliar with them. All the classical stuff I have is on lp's and I don't even have a turntable set up anymore. I think I'll check out itunes and get a few things and reacquaint myself. When I listen to an orchestra, it is always a film score or someone like Ogerman or Mandel. I haven't been to hear the real thing since I was in my teens. So, that chapter will get me off my ass and I'll got hear the Las Vegas Philharmonic this fall.

I'm with ya!

Yea, to take a look at a score would be nice. I really need to learn how to write for strings correctly. My approach is to turn a knob till it says strings and then wing it. It's so hard at my age and with the little time that I have to even think about studying with someone here. I hear the horn stuff that you do and wish I could do it. I hope Carlo will come over here. That's another cat I could really learn something from. Oh and geoff... very cool thing you've done here.

I'm in. I really hope to learn a thing or two here. I'm basicly clueless. Total self-taught hack. I hope I can hang. Hey Mark, Where did you find the Ogerman book? I'd be interested in that.

Got my copy today! Man, it's a big, heavy sucka.

Me too...got an e today from amazon:still back ordered.

Amazon seez I'll get mine in a couple weeks.

That looks like a good book. I just ordered it! I've also got Rona's book.

Yea Lee!! Very good, but I'm a sucker for this kind of stuff. Joey does sound good. Nothing more, nothing less than the track needed. The sounds he used were dead on. You got the vibe you wanted with the way you recored this. What was the vocal mic and pre? I dig it. Listened to it last night and it was one of the first things i did today. Kudos..