That was great Larry! I have to agree with Brian and John about the busy spots but overall its got the making of a hit! Is there a vocal to this?
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yep just finished it and posting soonly
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I keep going back to this and really not happy…gonna keep the instrumental part and export it as its own track and try and do something to get the vocal track to work
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Not completely sold on this but its growing on me
Playing around with this I have some time this afternoon after rehearsal…this may turn into something
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GarageBand currently has 4 “brushtrain” drum loops along with 2 brush fills categorized under the genre jazz
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I don’t know what part is supposed to be crappity…
I am -V. and I would like to share my music here. I hope you like it!
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Hey -V (@xlcr89 ) - I like how you let yourself explore different grooves, styles and ideas, and some of these are great stamina-building pieces as well.
I think it is great that you record them to be able to “remember” good ideas, but also learn from stuff that didn’t quite work as well - a lot of what I hear sounds like you are improvising/riffing off some initial ideas to explore variations and new ideas, accepting that some work, but others won’t. For all that, recording almost everything you play is a good study and learning tool.
I am not sure I would call these “compositions”, but that is likely up for debate 
In my book, a composition would have to have a bit more structure to it, and the bits and pieces would need to be developed and refined further. I would call these “sketches” where many of those could turn into (parts of) compositions (if you also own the rights for the background tracks, of course).
Keep at it!
Haha yea those are just jam tracks I made. Well most of them. There is 1 from band lab and 1 from SBL. I do make my own for the most part. Unless I’m experimenting with something like delay or flangers where I would just queue up a drum loop or best sequencer preset.
I sometimes play along with jam tracks on YouTube which I did record but the way I was doing it only got me and the track wasn’t included I thought if I screenrecorded the YouTube player with BandLab running in the background It might include both sources. My thought there is that they would both be flowing through the 1 out put but I use Apple and they seem like an establishment the could and also WOULD have a way to separate those and only record the YouTube player with no bass lol whatevs though. If I’m slappin da bass, all is well…
As for categorization though, I had posted these on the user video guide and received a suggestion to post them here as well.
If there are certain parameters to meet though I can respect that.
Let me know if there is or could be an issue please. Lol
Thanks for the message too. You seem like your well versed in theory. I appreciate the constructive feedback. 
Keep it tight!
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You are all good here 
And, just by the way, there is no policing here, just trying to make sure things stay a bit tidy and are relatively easy to find 
It’s is probably easiest to “grab” those YT jam tracks as mp3s with a suitable downloader program (e.g., Downie on Mac) and then import them in your DAW to record your addition on top of it. (If you wanted/needed to remove the bass from the original, that makes it a bit more tricky; you can find suggestions for approaches/software for that in different parts of this forum; just search for “remove bass line” or similar).
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Ooh that would be VERY handy! Thanks for the tip!
This thread needs some re-activation…
Well, here is my spur-of-the-moment recording where I try to see how easy/difficult it might be to combine bass and wind controller. I hadn’t played on that thing for almost 25 years, and wasn’t even sure it would still be working. Once I got that settled, I purchased some killer 80s/90s patches from Patchman Music and here is the first experimental result - just improvised, not composed, rehearsed or polished in any way. And my playing on the WX7 is more than rusty, to say the least. The bass is rather shoddily put down as well
Anyway, just to show that (with some effort) something cool could come out of this:
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Sounds great to me (as great as fusion-y type jazz can be 
…as you know, not my jam.
Great stuff though regardless of my dumb a$$ taste
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Ha, thanks! I didn’t have anything particular in mind, but I guess it always comes out fusion-y when I try something…
Taste is taste - it is what it is
OK, let’s breathe some life into this old thread again.
This is a new tune I am working on, which is an original by me, but with lots of good input from my SBL teacher. He also re-recorded the piano and guitar bits, and contributed not least a stunning guitar solo.
Currently, I am working on the bass parts (including a solo…gulp).
This is NOT a finished mix, there are all kinds of timing issues in my playing, but I welcome any feedback you might have to potentially improve, in particular, the bass parts. Thanks!
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K… that’s really awesome! What a great collab! Can’t wait to hear the finished product! 
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That’s excellent Joerg! I really like it.
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This is coming along nicely!
Don’t harsh on your timing at this stage, roughing the song out even with imperfect parts for now is fine and you can actually still use these stems in the final song and just punch in short retakes where you need to. I generally never throw away bass takes while working on a song and the end product is a mix and match of takes, works great and anyone that pretends that pros don’t do the same thing is deluding themselves
About now is when I get tempted to start obsessing over the mix and EQ. I highly recommend you do not do this and wait until you are creatively done with the song, and save the mix and EQ for last.
Very very cool you have a cool instructor helping out.
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Thank you, @howard , @JerryP and @Buzzin_Canada-John !
Yes, you are right and it should be a good opportunity to learn different ways of punching in. I have so far mostly relied on different takes and clipping them together “by hand”.
Yep, will do… most of the other stems are sitting on the instructor’s computer for now anyway (We have a little challenge moving back and forth between Logic and Reaper 
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Indeed! Should have talked with him about composition earlier really… my 1-year program is running out soon.
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