Very cool tune!
Cheers,
Mats N
Very cool tune!
Cheers,
Mats N
Hey Renaud,
A really inspiring track. It's very clear that you have different influences than I do and I really enjoy listening to your tunes.
Cheers,
Mats N
I really like John Mayer's clean guitar sound. So I wrote a tune around that kind of sound and this is what I came up with.
Guitar is my K-Line Springfield.
Bass is a Sire Marcus Miller V7.
Hope you'll enjoy it!
Cheers,
Mats N
Is there any drawbacks to using a stereo delay "after" double tracked guitars? I'm sending both left and right mono guitars into a stereo track just for the delay. Without the delay, the guitars sound way up front which I might not want.
If you think it sounds good, do it. Simple as that!
Cheers,
Mats N
Thank you! Now the fun will begin for real.
Cheers,
Mats N
Thanks Per was aiming for a pop rock type track
Thanks Mats_Nermark If you'd like an mp3 copy then just let me know and i can send one over
Please do!
And remember, if you ever want any of my tunes as a BT, don't hesitate to say.
Cheers,
Mats N
Todays. I'm attempting to slowly get a handle on more modern pop production aesthetic, albeit I know I will make many mistakes along the way and this is one, ending up much more on the 80's side which obviously is a heavy influence on modern pop but I'd rather figure out what differs with modern pop even when there are guitars involved, starting I guess with more sparse arrangement and more space. Though here perhaps it's too much punch, I notice a lot of Belle & Sebastian style folksy-ness in modern pop too with softer sounds.
If there's one tune I really would like you to develop, this is the one. The energy in the first 19 seconds is off the charts.
I'd really like to know what instruments you used for that?
Cheers,
Mats N
I'm carrying on the empty path of trying to take onboard some pop. Today opting for almost maximum softness. Again not a success, but a continued learning process though my own laziness is fighting it, wanting to return to tropes. I think if I wanted to get it really like pop I'd have to tame the mids and bass a lot, but it's harder to hear that on normal speakers than on crapmac(tm) speakers where it becomes very apparent. I can hear the kind of high girly flute like semi Bjork influenced modern female voice that I would fit over this in my head at least even with this mix.
This is a really interesting track in many ways. One thing that I like is that the drums are so dry and some other instruments are really ambient. Usually it's done the other way around. But as time has proven, why do the usual when you don't have to.
Cheers,
Mats N
New tune Velocity
I wrote this today, faffing about with a wee idea.
Great sounding pop-rock track.
I will seriously analyse the track and probably learn from it.
I've already played along with it as it is a monster BT to have fun with.
Cheers,
Mats N
great track & tones , your playing is really on top here , I wish it had a few background vocals at some point.
Thanks, Renaud!
Back in the 80s before I met my wife, I used to write actual songs with lyrics and I also sang a bit.
Maybe I should post a few old songs just for the fun of it?
Cheers,
Mats N
Sounds absolutely brilliant Mats_Nermark the guitar playing and tones are so tasteful and well placed.
I do love starting off with a bit of an idea and just seeing where the flow takes you.
Your tasteful licks and feel are brilliant, i wish i could play like that. This has been the best 4.01 minutes of my day so far
Thanks, Joe!
You are too kind!
My best 4 minutes today was when my son called and told me his wife gave birth to their son this morning. My first grandchild and me and my wife are almost overwhelmed by emotion.
Cheers,
Mats N
Sweet, awesome backing track feels very different to where you usually go and some great Clapton, Duane Allman and George Harrison style riffs in there.
You've been very helpful to all of us over the years with your advice and awesome profiles you've shared, and you're a far better guitarist and musician than I will likely ever be, I also know you're looking to expand your own sonic palette and I wish people would let me know about my cliches and what to do to avoid them, because they're dead end roads that you don't realize you've walked down and need to back up and try a different route.
So I hope you don't get terribly offended if I give a little feedback because I know you're more than capable of implementing it. One thing I think would take you to the next level and modernize your sound is reduce the quantity of flourishes, especially on the starts of notes, there's a lot of hammer-ons, slides, etc that feel like a signature. It's a great way to add detail and interest for legato work, gives it an awesome Holdsworth like hollow electric sound almost, but having heard where you're coming from and I get the frustration g that you're trying to break free, I think it's a crutch for you that's now holding you back. It sounds a bit like melisma can become for some singers.
I'd love to hear you do a take on a BB King style solo even though I know it's hard to overcome the idea of "must avoid cliche" especially on what you've mentioned it the past about guiding your students away form just blues solos, but that's the way to learn IMO try to do something really really well that you dread. Why BB? He uses embellishment now and then (mostly rakes and very fast and tight bends) but mostly brutally clean straight notes and slow bends with emphasis on sharp transient. If you were to rebuild the basic note, not from scratch but with mindfullness, and allow more breathing space around the riffs, slow down a little. Then I think you'd open yourself up to your full potential.
Hi Per,
Thank you for your most interesting post and, no, I didn't get offended at all as I know you mean it with my best interest in mind.
The timing of your post is awesome as I'm just preparing a lesson for my electric bass students where I use the same bass line in two very different 12-bar blues tunes with the difference in the bass is that in one tune it's straight 8ths and the other is a shuffle.
I wrote both tunes quickly using equipment I don't usually use for blues. Other guitar, other amp simulation. I will now go back and listen to my guitar melodies and solos in those two tunes with you comments in mind and see what I can do differently. Either with those two or in the future.
So onward and upward and thanks again for your thoughts!
Cheers,
Mats N
WOW! Just WOW!!!!
I can hear almost Peter Gabriel's voice in here somewhere.
Then the California fusion comes in and dominates the track and I love fusion like this.
The arrangement and the mix allows me to enjoy all the instruments.
And to lay the groundwork, there's solid musicianship.
Did I say WOW already?
Cheers,
Mats N
I can't hear cat nor birds. But I do hear a very enjoyable and very "playful" tune. Well done!
Cheers,
Mats N
I enjoyed this as it very varied and well arranged/mixed.
And the groove is definitely there.
Cheers,
Mats N
Hi Renaud,
I think you should be super satisfied with the entire track. It has a great rhythmic drive and the mix is excellent. The arrangement is such as I can hear everything in it's place. Nothing seem to step on something else's toes.
Only fault with the arrangement is that it is way too short.
Did you play bass with fingers or a pick?
Cheers,
Mats N
When I write a tune, I almost always know where I got the idea and/or from whom I got the inspiration. Not so in this case. I just went where the tune took me.
What did happen was that the tune called out for some slide guitar. I play slide about once a year (when a song calls for it) so whenever it happens I have to practice a bit.
Clean guitar: K-Line Springfield
Slide guitar: PRS McCarty with 57/08 pickups
Bass: Sire Marcus Miller V7
Hope you'll like!
Cheers,
Mats N
New tune, IG 11
Hi all, i wrote this tonight, i was in an ambient guitar playing mood.
Not what I expected from you but nevertheless a fine track. After all, change is the spice of life.
Cheers,
Mats N