Your Mom loves your mixes, but are they really up to scratch? Post your tracks here and get the community's feedback to help with the spit and polish. Impress us! We don't bite.
The problem with instrumentals is naming them. Clearly I did this one in August and was walking along the street and smelt some jasmine flowering - nothing deeper than that!
Sounds like a real 4 track recording to me - track 9 from the first album - still too much reverb which I think I was using to try to cover up the piezo pickup sound - remembering that this was in the late 90s and the machine had its limitations... I'm not going to do a million of these threads, but when I get to the third album I'll have learnt to record somewhat better...
09 Jasmine.mp3
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Honestly, the runs on this sound kind of over-played. You sacrificed melody in order to play all the notes. You're songwriting has definitely improved too.
Your guitar playing is outstanding! Not sure that I agree with the comment of "overplaying". Everything you've done makes perfect, musical sense to me! I have musician friends who try to cram in every note they possibly can and to me, it sounds like they are trying to hard to be a "player". This is lovely, I could listen to it all day!
Alison wrote: ↑Wed Aug 12, 2020 9:18 pm
Your guitar playing is outstanding! Not sure that I agree with the comment of "overplaying". Everything you've done makes perfect, musical sense to me! I have musician friends who try to cram in every note they possibly can and to me, it sounds like they are trying to hard to be a "player". This is lovely, I could listen to it all day!
Thanks Alison - strangely enough I don't agree with VHS on that one either. It's one song on an album of 16 tracks, lots of which are slow and melodic, so the pace of this one is somewhat of a counterpoint - at no point during its creation did I think, "Hmm, I'm playing too many notes..." And I picked it to put up here because I particularly like it - especially when I'm harmonising on the melody in the second half...
You should do a Black Sabbath pretty instrumental version...they seemed to have one on just about every LP to add some light to the shade and as Tommi Iommi's vanity project I suspect.
This sounds well balanced though the intro was sudden.
It is rather bright .
Alison wrote: ↑Wed Aug 12, 2020 9:18 pm
Your guitar playing is outstanding! Not sure that I agree with the comment of "overplaying". Everything you've done makes perfect, musical sense to me! I have musician friends who try to cram in every note they possibly can and to me, it sounds like they are trying to hard to be a "player". This is lovely, I could listen to it all day!
Thanks Alison - strangely enough I don't agree with VHS on that one either. It's one song on an album of 16 tracks, lots of which are slow and melodic, so the pace of this one is somewhat of a counterpoint - at no point during its creation did I think, "Hmm, I'm playing too many notes..." And I picked it to put up here because I particularly like it - especially when I'm harmonising on the melody in the second half...
Fair enough. "different strokes" and all that. Probably doesn't help from my perspective that I'm hearing it in a vacuum. Could be that in the context of an album, it would be a refreshing change of pace.
