Let's Hear It: Your Instrumental Tunes

[Dr Nursers]

This thread is an opportunity for you to share your instrumental tunes. Whether it's ambient, jazz, prog or anything in between, share, critique and discuss to your heart's content!

 

And don't worry, there will be threads for other genres etc coming very soon!

[Song80s]

Disco Daylight

 

 

A disco instrumental for dancers ! I am the composer of this retro song with a strong groove.

All instruments and tracks created on the Korg Kronos keyboard,

 

Catch the dance fever and where is the glitter ball ?

 

Hope you like !

 

Greg

[Dave Bryce]

Nice, Greg! Where's the classic Disco hi-hat though...? I especially like the string work. The ping pong delay on the piano is a great touch as well.

 

Here's one of mine. Bit of a rocker...three musicians only: Stu Kimball on guitars (ex-Bob Dylan), Nick D'Virgilio on drums and me on keys and (keyboard) bass. My tune.

 

The whole thing was done on an Alesis QS8 using the stock sounds and kinda misusing the Eurodance expansion QCard.

 

Night Is Right.

 

The opening guitars parts are all the Instant U2 program I wrote for the QS8. You don't hear Stu until 1:10.

 

dB

[Song80s]

Nice, Greg! Where's the classic Disco hi-hat though...? I especially like the string work. The ping pong delay on the piano is a great touch as well.

 

Here's one of mine. Bit of a rocker...three musicians only: Stu Kimball on guitars (ex-Bob Dylan), Nick D'Virgilio on drums and me on keys and (keyboard) bass. My tune.

 

The whole thing was done on an Alesis QS8 using the stock sounds and kinda misusing the Eurodance expansion QCard.

 

Night Is Right.

 

The opening guitars parts are all the Instant U2 program I wrote for the QS8. You don't hear Stu until 1:10.

 

dB

 

Thanks, Dave ! I couldn't locate the drummer for Donna Summer's band for the rolling high hat

 

You have a good ear. It has 2 different string parts. I had a lot of fun creating Disco Daylight.

 

Your original is awesome, all the players are top notch. That guy on synth burns up the keys, too.

 

Structurally, I like the aggressive tone and funky backbeat of NIR. Its cool to hear the ' bridge ' or middle break

at 1:54. Almost all my songs have a 'left turn' or mood change in the middle.

 

I am not heavy on keys or song approach. But I approach some of that into my ' Desert Heat':

 

 

Play it LOUD.

[Bill Heins]

Here's a couple of things-

First is my first Cubase Project(work in progress)- Dawn

Dawn(working title)

 

Second, for something different - Cold

Cold

 

Both are incomplete demos for now...I'm a "hoarder"

 

Bill

[Song80s]

Hi Bill. Both are cinematic. I hear movie soundtracks for both.

 

Dawn can open or be an intro to a movie theme. For Cold, that can support the rolling credits at the end of a movie.

 

I am a movie soundtrack follower so I relate instrumental music into video and see scenes evolving. I think on visuals.

 

Will be fun to compare notes.

 

Titles can be tricky. I match my work to a theme or vice versa. Sometimes both they meet half way. Its a different creative

process.

[Bill Heins]

Thanks Greg, I try to match the same way...I get a feeling from the music and can see it's use. Music is meant to move us in more than one way

 

Bill

[Bill Heins]

Hey Dave...too cool!! The synth sound alone is worth the listen let alone everything else. Just a funky groove going on there

 

Bill

[linwood]

Nice stuff everyone! Man, db's making me wanna go find a QS8. lol

 

I do a fair amount of lib. music so here's a couple of those. They usually run 1 to 3 minutes and end up in a variety of places. They can land in feature films, under commercials, piped into elevators and restaurants, or someone's personal project. You just never know who's going to use it and what they might use it for. Midnight Snack is sort of a funky blues thing. Nothing to it really and no solo section or anything. Just a bed for production. Tightrope is an orchestral fantasy/magical type tune. That's what fun about doing the lib things. You can pick a category on the list and go anywhere you want that day.

[Song80s]

Thanks Greg, I try to match the same way...I get a feeling from the music and can see it's use. Music is meant to move us in more than one way

 

Bill

 

excellent. Creative flow is a big deal and I like talking about creativity.

 

I might pick your brains on Cubase in a few months as I have to switch to it for recording.

 

 

[Bill Heins]

Linwood, you've always had a great musical "taste". You have a good ear for sounds and structure that make your creations really shine!

 

Greg, until recently I used a Sonar/Sound Forge/Mixbus workflow but have switched to a Cubase/WaveLab Pro/Mixbus(maybe ?) workflow. Got deals on Cubase and WaveLab and really enjoy using them

 

Bill

[Bill Heins]

I write all kinds of material due to the fact that I play keys, guitar, and drums...here's a couple of more keyboard oriented soundtrack style pieces- Fragile Magick and Simmer

 

Bill

[linwood]

Thanks for the kind words, Bill. I'd say the same goes for you! We can't get away from it. lol

[Music Bird]

My original instrumentals

Ska Fanfare: https://soundcloud.com/pigeon-city/pigeon-paradise-ost-ska-fanfare

Ja"i Bajawa stringband music: https://soundcloud.com/pigeon-city/jai-bajawa-indonesian-stringband-music-from-ntt

Cumbia-ish track: https://soundcloud.com/pigeon-city/instrumental-pigeon-paradise-music-1

Dangdut: https://soundcloud.com/pigeon-city/sayang-kene-x-dangdut

Folk synth stuff: https://soundcloud.com/pigeon-city/pigeonland-music-folk-dance-pop

Reggae: https://soundcloud.com/pigeon-city/the-pigeon-city-studio-players-the-birdy-reggae

Polka thing: https://soundcloud.com/pigeon-city/pigeon-paradise-ost-the-polka-jig

And more!