Dave Bryce Posted November 8, 2002 Share Posted November 8, 2002 As many of you know, we are currently in the process of doing another CD compilation of original material submitted by members of this forum. As with the last original compilation, the entries will be posted for review by all of the members of the forum whether or not they have contributed a piece. With that in mind, please check out "D Song" (submitted by Marino), and tell us what you think! If the artist of the piece would care to post any notes about the piece in this thread, they should feel free to do so. Thanks for listening! dB ==> David Bryce Music • Funky Young Monks <== Professional Affiliations: Royer Labs • Music Player Network Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazzman Posted November 8, 2002 Share Posted November 8, 2002 Well done Marino, great song, I liked this song. The group was tight, excellent keyboard playing. Fingers moved like glass! nice and clean. I can tell the experience level here. Good job guys! Jazzman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Azzarello Posted November 8, 2002 Share Posted November 8, 2002 Nice job. Very cool, dark tune, and you had some GREAT runs in this one - Pat http://www.patazzarello.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gulliver Posted November 8, 2002 Share Posted November 8, 2002 Marino... Excellent work! I am back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MusicaL Posted November 8, 2002 Share Posted November 8, 2002 Wow Marino!!!! That was absolutely beautiful!!! Please tell us what piano you played, and how the composition came about!!! Also, anything you can tell us about where it was recorded and any recording techniques, and equipment used to record the tune would be great. Again, very beautiful as well as technically interesting piece all around... Albert Gear: Yamaha MODX8, Mojo 61, NS2 73, C. Bechstein baby grand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bleen Posted November 9, 2002 Share Posted November 9, 2002 Damn, dood! That's some fine playing! I'm starting to feel very overwhelmed - I'm not sure my tune is worthy of being included with all these really amazing pieces... recording/mix guy don gunn.com myspace.com/dongunnmusic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Bryce Posted November 9, 2002 Author Share Posted November 9, 2002 Originally posted by the bleen: I'm not sure my tune is worthy of being included with all these really amazing pieces... It certainly is. dB ==> David Bryce Music • Funky Young Monks <== Professional Affiliations: Royer Labs • Music Player Network Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Intheether Posted November 9, 2002 Share Posted November 9, 2002 Oh My Lord... this song is truly amazing!Was this recorded in a professional studio? Beautiful playing and composition ... I am blown away. Wow. * Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick K. Posted November 10, 2002 Share Posted November 10, 2002 I wish I could play piano like that! Great job. Those runs.... Rick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan South Posted November 11, 2002 Share Posted November 11, 2002 Wow!! Awesome keyboard chops. Intriguing harmonic progressions. The bass and percussion are very well done. Love the ending run!!! First class all the way. The Black Knight always triumphs! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve LeBlanc Posted November 11, 2002 Share Posted November 11, 2002 Simply beautiful playing Carlo. Really tasty percussionist too. http://www.youtube.com/notesleb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blinkman Posted November 12, 2002 Share Posted November 12, 2002 Beautiful composition and playing, no doubt about it. Very nice. Sound-wise...I might be going out on a limb here, but these sound a bit like sampled instruments to me...? I'd be surprised to learn that either piano or percussion were real. I don't mean that as a criticism--it's fantastic work--I'm just really curious. Of course, hearing it streamed from mp3.com, one does tend to miss out on some of the fine detail. Marino, please let us know how you did it! -chad www.chadblinman.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marino Posted November 13, 2002 Share Posted November 13, 2002 Thanks a lot everybody for your kind words. The story of this piece is a bit complicated... Ready? It started as a solo piano piece - it was written about two months ago, and I had played it live in that fashion a couple of times already. It's a rather simple jazz tune; it has none of the knotty changes and arrangements I tend to write for my jazz group. This one follows simpler chords, both in structure (sparse modal frameworks) and in how they move. 'D Song' is written with somebody in mind, and in that perspective, I was surprised to read that somebody found it a "dark" tune... Dark?! To me, "furiously joyous" is closer to my intentions..! OK so since most people seemed to like the tune, and I enjoyed to play it a lot too, I decided to use it for the compilation. Here was where trouble started... I had the idea to make it a trio piece, with the warm soumds of fretless bass, and percussion rather than a drum kit. I know I could trust the musicians, both old friends and long-time musical companions. I absolutely wanted to record live, all toghether... But the Yamaha grand in the studio I had booked turned out to be unplayable. I talked about that in another thread, where it pratically started the trend to postpone the deadline... Unfortunately, we couldn't agree on another date in a different studio, to follow my vision of live recording... Plus, the other studios with a good piano were rather expensive. So I used an emergency procedure: The bass player and me played toghether to a click, we did some editing/polishing, then later the percussionist overdubbed his part. So what piano I played, you ask... Yes it's a sample - I confess. It's my favorite sampled piano, Mike Martin's Steinway D from his KeySolutions sample CD for the Kurzweil. I played it from my Fatar Studio 2001, while the bassist played his 5-string fretless through a Parseck preamp. We played toghether into an Akai DPS12, then we transferred the files to a studio (the "original" one I had booked), where the percussionist played his parts into ProTools. There are two separate percussion part: The underlying groove is an African Talking Drum played by hand (instead than with the usual wooden stick) and the jazz cymbals-type part is, indeed, a couple of cymbals, plus other nameless metal things of various odd shapes. There are also a few overdubbed percussion 'colors'. Right after the perc session, we had a quick hour to mix. Well, it turned out that the talking drum interferred quite a bit with the intelligibility of the piano middle-low register, so we had to almost EQ it out of the tune... In a similar way, the bass part clashed slightly in intonation with some low piano sections. That was my fault. I was used to play this song as a solo piano, so I couldn't help myself to play down there! Anyway, something had to give, so we also EQed the bass rather heavily. The mastering was very subtle, almost inaudible... I can't say I'm really satisfied with the final sound... We had too little time to mix. But I think it's acceptable. But I must say I'm really happy with the playing. It's really a joy when your musicians follow your ideas with this kind of enthusiasm...! I'm a kind of harasser when I record, but they followed me without losing it for a second. Let me thank them here: Luca Barberini - Fretless Bass Massimo Carrano - Percussion Thank you guys, you are great. That's it... I told you it was complicated Carlo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan O Posted November 14, 2002 Share Posted November 14, 2002 Great piece ! Nice pace to this song and excellent runs ! WELL DONE ! dano www.esnips.com/web/SongsfromDanO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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