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Post subject: What song are you working on?
Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2010 5:03 pm
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Or, what was the last song you worked on? Personally, I've been working on Tom Petty stuff ,

especially like" Honeybee"

In the past couple weeks I've been playing a lot of Stevie Wonder and Sheryl Crow, she's got some good stufff on her new album.


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Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2010 10:08 pm
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Salvation Is Here, by Hillsong United.
Massive bass solo in the middle of the song. So fast it sounds almost like a sequencer, but it is bass. Very tough to get up to speed. They have the video on YouTube, which shows their bass player doing it.


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Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2010 2:28 am
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Michael,

Checked out the song on Youtube, I was surprised to see a Christian artist playing a 4 string Jazz Bass, most of the time they like 5 string whatevers.

It was hard to hear on the video, just keep practicing. I usually try to find something that will make me work hard, not so in the case of the Tom Petty stuff, I just like some of his songs.


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Just finished changing the bass score for Brad Paisley's "Everybody's Here". The original score was for upright bass and frankly, it lacks a little snap that the Fender P-Bass can bring to it. Kevin Grantt does a good job with the song on the American Saturday Night album using the upright, but since Mr. Grantt is also a Fender Bassist, I just wanted to remove the bass line using the 'Audacity' mixer program and insert my own Fender bass line as a test to see if it enhances the original recording. After hearing my Fender version, I am convinced that the producer should have called for the P-Bass originally in the studio. Just sounds more 'country'...

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Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2010 8:24 am
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@ Oxfan:

Here is the audio. You can hear it good here. Solo starts right after 2:20:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHzXMVk6 ... re=related


Enjoy.

Hope I can get it fast enough one day!


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Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2010 2:33 pm
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PaducahLuke wrote:
Just finished changing the bass score for Brad Paisley's "Everybody's Here". The original score was for upright bass and frankly, it lacks a little snap that the Fender P-Bass can bring to it. Kevin Grantt does a good job with the song on the American Saturday Night album using the upright, but since Mr. Grantt is also a Fender Bassist, I just wanted to remove the bass line using the 'Audacity' mixer program and insert my own Fender bass line as a test to see if it enhances the original recording. After hearing my Fender version, I am convinced that the producer should have called for the P-Bass originally in the studio. Just sounds more 'country'...


Couldn't agree with you more, I'm really not into country but i like Brad Paisley. Anything of his I've listened to always was an electric bass.


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Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2010 2:38 pm
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john11.2526@gmail.com wrote:
@ Oxfan:

Here is the audio. You can hear it good here. Solo starts right after 2:20:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHzXMVk6 ... re=related


Enjoy.

Hope I can get it fast enough one day!



Hey Michael,

Listened to it, some nice licks. I can't say I was crazy about the arrangement, all Hillsong sounds the same to me. I'm not a Christian music hater, I played in praise and worship bands for years. It's a shame that Christian musicians have to stay in a little tiny box because of pre-conceived ideas.

If you want to get fast, work on some John Entwistle and Geddy Lee songs.


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I've been working on "Synchronicity"...the Sting tune. It's very tough. Driving me nuts :!:


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Those are the the songs I like the best, the ones that challenge. When I got into the James Jamerson material, it was all a challenge. Once you get past the first few songs, it gets easier, still a lot of work but rewarding.


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What really challenges me is Country Music. The memorization part isn't tough, even with all the little details. I just don't have the touch for it.

I seem to feel most at home with Rap. I just wish one of those guys could write a song with a damn key change for once.


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im currently working on mostly acid jazz stuff

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oxfan wrote:
Couldn't agree with you more, I'm really not into country but i like Brad Paisley. Anything of his I've listened to always was an electric bass.


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Lots of Rush- freewill, red barchetta, Bastille day,

Thought I could play them a year back.... And couldn't.... But now i can!

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Every once in awhile, I won't get e-mail notifications when someone replies to a post, I never got notifications from Sunday on. Oh well, good to hear responses, always interesting to hear whar everybody is doing.

At this moment I'm listening to "Break of Dawn", compliments of pbassbob and his cohorts, sounds pretty good, looking forward to hearing the rest of the mp3's.

Had to laugh at Will's past concerning Rush, we've all thought we could play something only to realize as we got better we really didn't have it ye, been there done that.

One of my favorite quotes is:

"A mans got to know his limitations"

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As our friend Brother Dave would say, keep thumpin.


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Quote: "what was the last song you worked on?"




Although it was Originally Recorded with a String Bass Part.
After hearing the Final Master I was unhappy with the Basses hand and finger artefacts.
After Re- Recording the Bass part, this time with a Fender Precision. I had the entire Recording Remixed and Re- Mastered using a Pultec Equaliser. It was O.K. afterward I think.



But.

Thank You for asking.

It was entitled "God So Loved The World."

God so loved the world,
That He gave his only Son
That Whoever believes
Whoever believes
Whoever believes in Him
Should not perish
But have everlasting life

For God sent not
His Son into the world
To condemn the world
But that the world
Through Him Might be Saved

God so loved the world
That He gave his only Son
That Whoever believes
Whoever believes
Whoever believes in Him
Should not perish
But have everlasting life

Should not perish
But have everlasting life


Based directly upon, perhaps the best loved words, of the Holy Bible.
Every Musical Instrument in the Recording, has a deep underlying Spiritual Meaning.
Even the manner, in which every single sound has been Recorded, has a genuine Spiritual Significance.
The Musical Arrangement, Orchestration, and Production feature Musical Instruments Sounds and Effects to convey a Powerful Message.



For Instance.
In an Instrumental Version.
The Alto Flute carries the Air normally Sung.
So it is Recorded, with the breath of the Player audible.
To convey the fact that the Word of God, is literally 'God Breathed'.


A Tubular Bell.
The Death Bell Knelling.
Speaks of Christ's Sacrifice on the Cross.


The Bar Chimes.
Often sold in small versions as' Wind' Chimes.
Speak of the Holy Spirit, whom Christ described as being like 'The Wind'.


The Sacramental Bells.
Used in Services and Masses.
Are used, as you've never heard them.
And signify the Presence of, Communion with 'The Father'.


So the entire Trinity (a word found nowhere in The Bible) Father, Son and Holy Spirit, are represented.


Two Orchestral Harps recorded in Stereo.
(There are 10 - 12 different ways to record an Orchestral Harp).
Fly across the Sound Stage, back and forth, hither and thither, doing the will of God.


There is a Compelling Piano Accompaniment, that is the consistent regulating influence throughout.
Powerful Tympani Rolls from down below, and Commanding Lightning Flashes of Strings Strike from Above.
There is also a Huge Church Organ Sound, that Crescendos up behind the Orchestra, and massive Hand Cymbal Crashes.


At one point.
The Music modulates into the Minor Key.
And the Bass goes down, down, down, whilst other Instruments go up, up, up.
This is because after Christ Rose from the Dead, he descended into Hell and Preached to all those Souls Lost in Time and Eternity. "He Led Captivity Captive".
The Music goes down, and down, and down, and simultaneously up, up, up, with the many overlapping Piano Arpeggios, leading almost every note of the Instrument, from the depths into the heights, higher and higher right to the very top of the Instruments Compass. And the French Horns Soar up into the sky.

As the Music finally resolves back to the Major, indicating a rightly Restored Relationship with God.

I like to think of this as revealing, that there is no one, anywhere, that is beyond.

The Reach of The Love of God.



Finally.
The Music gently rises, lifting, modulating into another, higher key.
The Harps and Piano full of endless Arpeggios flowing higher and higher, and all the Instruments gradually following and building into a giant Crescendo.
Meanwhile, continually flowing streams of Bar Chimes and Orchestral Bells that Ring their Hearts Out for Sheer Joy, pour out their Happy Sound, all over, everything else.
Listening to it, you get the feeling, you are being lifted like a Rocket Flying through Space, and Up Into and Beyond, the Stars and finally into Eternity itself with the Father, and resolves back to the Original Key with a final Climatic Crash of Cymbals.

And the Promise of Eternal Life.


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