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Another funky loop, but I’m back to 4/4 for a while.

I really stomped on the limiter to get a certain sound with this one, and the encoding I use to get things in stereo on YouTube doesn’t deal very gracefully with high average levels. So here’s an MP3 that sounds a hell of a lot better.

I think the bass line in this is about as good as the piano solo myself. It would probably benefit from more repetition (especially if this went on any longer), but the constant change is a particular sound that I like (this is very influenced by a Miles Davis track called “Star on Cicely” from the 1982 album “Star People”).

Actually this groove and bass line started out to be the 4/4 section of an arrangement of Mysterious Traveller, and I played the bass line in F#. It’s transposed (magically) up to Bb for this.

This is kind of a little less polished than some of my other arrangements, but I sort of like the looseness of it, and I’m attempting to value just frequently posting a variety of different sounds, and trying to show the audience that there are a lot of different dimensions to my style. I could have spent another 30 hours refining this to be 5% better than it is, but in just about 3 hours I got this far. I’d rather do this 10 more times with the 30 hours, at least at this point in my development.

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  • posted on April 19, 2008
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Rob @ April 19, 2008 9:38 am

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10 YouTube comments »

  1. My oh my... grooving!!

    Comment by sirstevio — October 3, 2008 @ 5:45 pm

  2. Very nice!!! Good swing, good solo, good Rhodes sound. Thanks!

    Comment by EnryOnTheKeys — August 20, 2008 @ 12:44 pm

  3. holy shit i wish i could play like u! :(

    Comment by cataclysm4 — June 1, 2008 @ 10:17 am

  4. I wish my Rhodes sounded like that.

    Comment by akattack — May 15, 2008 @ 11:41 pm

  5. '79 stage, right? Keep hanging at the supersite forum, we'll help you get it right.

    Comment by yourbug — May 15, 2008 @ 11:47 pm

  6. I'm famous already, excellent! the forum is sweet.

    Comment by akattack — May 15, 2008 @ 11:50 pm

  7. Rhodes as it should be played

    Comment by nurvrax — May 5, 2008 @ 11:01 am

  8. Smoking as always.Great

    Comment by mentalmalfunction — May 2, 2008 @ 11:01 pm

  9. very nice. i like it :)

    Comment by KlasBenny — April 25, 2008 @ 9:21 am

  10. That was great again Volvox!Thanks,

    Comment by nsandor72 — April 23, 2008 @ 12:43 pm

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