Anyone up for a James Brown-style BT Jam?

Lemme write down the chords before I forget them. I'm sure there is a more enharmonic way to write it, but

Verse: E7#11 Gmaj7 C#m7b5 Cmaj7
Chorus (This Must Be The Place): D9 G6 C (Bm)
 
Mark Wein said:
ok...took a stab at it:

[sc]https://soundcloud.com/mark-wein/funkyjam-practice-run[/sc]

Mostly just trying some ideas out and getting used to the McFeely 440...first recording with it :)
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That's a lot of ideas you are throwing at the wall there Walter. :embarrassed: Some of them work, some of them don't but there's always something new coming down the pike. :thu:
 
Jeremy said:
[SC]https://soundcloud.com/wtfisarevolt/funky[/SC]

:embarrassed:

I'm kinda in the same boat as Peeker here. There's moments I'm not even sure what I'm doing other than WTF DO I DO NOW.

:lol:
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Is that 3 guitar overdubs? I like it - you have a nice Grant Green kind of thing happening in the single note lead guitar.
 
rsadasiv said:
That's a lot of ideas you are throwing at the wall there Walter. :embarrassed: Some of them work, some of them don't but there's always something new coming down the pike. :thu:
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Yeah...it was more of a "test the waters" kind of pass. Then I started messing with using the track as an exercise in working on playing in the pocket better and never went back for a final take. Maybe on Monday.
 
aliensporebomb said:
Here's my take:
http://madsound.dyndns.org/asbtunes/new/Funk.mp3

I used my black strat thru the VG-99 and set up a kind of cloudy fake synthesized strings (pitch transposer into modulation, chorus and delay with a little reverb) backing following what I play - giving everything a lot of space rather than cramming everything with notes.
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Interesting. The pad and the delay really give it a different feel. You do nice job of leaving space - when I play with those long delays I tend to forget that even though I've stopped playing a riff it still lives on in the echo chamber and I wind up stepping all over myself.
 
Mark Wein said:
Yeah...it was more of a "test the waters" kind of pass. Then I started messing with using the track as an exercise in working on playing in the pocket better and never went back for a final take. Maybe on Monday.
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Playing in the pocket is really a different thing on studio/BT/overdubs than it is playing live. Playing live, if you think the groove is a little bit different, the rest of the band can adapt and come to you - a backing track does not care what you think so you are always following the existing groove. It's kind of like working with plastic vs. working with wood.
 
rsadasiv said:
Playing in the pocket is really a different thing on studio/BT/overdubs than it is playing live. Playing live, if you think the groove is a little bit different, the rest of the band can adapt and come to you - a backing track does not care what you think so you are always following the existing groove. It's kind of like working with plastic vs. working with wood.
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Yeah...I just wanted to take another pass at this after working out this feel a little better. And I'm trying to incorporate some altered dominant sounds I don't get to use very often on gigs so thats a little whacky for me too.
 
rsadasiv said:
Is that 3 guitar overdubs? I like it - you have a nice Grant Green kind of thing happening in the single note lead guitar.
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Nope, just one rhythm track and one lead. I just kinda let my fingers go on it. It's so outside my comfort zone stylistically that I really couldn't think about, I had to just do it, if that makes any sense.
 
Mark Wein said:
ok...took a stab at it:

[sc]https://soundcloud.com/mark-wein/funkyjam-practice-run[/sc]

Mostly just trying some ideas out and getting used to the McFeely 440...first recording with it :)
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:rawk: very cool, I particularly like all the altered/outside stuff with the rhythmic displacement "cramming in the notes" feel.

Peeker said:
here;'s the garbage I came up with.
drunk as a lord, and I don't know what to DO with this style...

https://www.box.com/s/ocw3covwdh7o394m94mj

I havent' even listened to it
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Whoa! that's some fierce playing, in a good way! :thu:

Jeremy said:
[SC]https://soundcloud.com/wtfisarevolt/funky[/SC]

:embarrassed:

I'm kinda in the same boat as Peeker here. There's moments I'm not even sure what I'm doing other than WTF DO I DO NOW.

:lol:
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Very cool Jeremy! nice touch and feel. :cool:

aliensporebomb said:
Oh I definetely will play around with this one. Mark, I love the tone and lines on your take - it's stratty but you've got all these slippery licks snaking in and out. Gives me something to shoot for.

Peeker - I love your heavily FX'ed Hendrixian freakout! It's actually cool. It's like a freaked out 50s tone to begin with then it goes into the 70s, and then the 80s and 2000s!

Jeremy - it kind of seems like the type of guitar playing you might hear on Paul Simon's Graceland - kind of a South African thing meets early Talking Heads kind of thing.

Here's my take:
http://madsound.dyndns.org/asbtunes/new/Funk.mp3

I used my black strat thru the VG-99 and set up a kind of cloudy fake synthesized strings (pitch transposer into modulation, chorus and delay with a little reverb) backing following what I play - giving everything a lot of space rather than cramming everything with notes.
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That's great..really inventive as usual from you!, totally changed the vibe :)

rsadasiv said:
Ok, not very good but I've gotta go to bed.

http://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=12204835
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I like those chords, nicely done! :thu:
 
Wow... I'm going to have to listen to all of these, I've only listened to Mark's so far.


Mark... what's your signal path there? clean channel with compressor? It's so fat sounding!!!
 
rsadasiv said:
On further reflection, I think it is Genius Of Love, by Tom Tom Club.

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Aha! Thats probably why I recognized it.e

mosiddiqi said:
:rawk: very cool, I particularly like all the altered/outside stuff with the rhythmic displacement "cramming in the notes" feel.
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baimun said:
Wow... I'm going to have to listen to all of these, I've only listened to Mark's so far.


Mark... what's your signal path there? clean channel with compressor? It's so fat sounding!!!
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Thanks everyone!

Thats just the McFeely direct into my recording interface. I'm using the Sansamp plugin in the picture with a little delay and reverb.
 

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