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hb3
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Post Number: 389
Registered: 2-2005
Posted on Wednesday, July 01, 2009 - 8:49 pm:   Edit Post

Box.net works!

I'm recording some solo piccolo stuff...here's a quirky little number called "Slap"....

http://www.box.net/shared/v1o242aiv8

We'll be premiering about a half hour of new tracks featuring the piccolo bass next Friday on a live365 station, www.radioenigma.com

(Message edited by hb3 on July 01, 2009)
davehouck
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Post Number: 8300
Registered: 5-2002
Posted on Wednesday, July 01, 2009 - 9:34 pm:   Edit Post

Wow! That was really nice!
olieoliver
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Post Number: 2573
Registered: 2-2006
Posted on Wednesday, July 01, 2009 - 10:26 pm:   Edit Post

Very cool Hugh!

OO
artswork99
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Post Number: 706
Registered: 7-2007
Posted on Thursday, July 02, 2009 - 5:22 am:   Edit Post

Sweet sounds Hugh!

Art
georgie_boy
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Post Number: 830
Registered: 8-2005
Posted on Thursday, July 02, 2009 - 8:06 am:   Edit Post

Great stuff!!!
What bass/equipment was used on that???

George

(Message edited by georgie_boy on July 02, 2009)
serialnumber12
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Post Number: 482
Registered: 12-2004
Posted on Thursday, July 02, 2009 - 8:26 am:   Edit Post

sounds like Vic!!!..............tricky chops!
olieoliver
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Post Number: 2576
Registered: 2-2006
Posted on Thursday, July 02, 2009 - 8:34 am:   Edit Post

Listened again this morning, very nice bass work.

OO
sonicus
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Post Number: 157
Registered: 5-2009
Posted on Thursday, July 02, 2009 - 8:58 am:   Edit Post

Nice Track !
hb3
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Username: hb3

Post Number: 390
Registered: 2-2005
Posted on Thursday, July 02, 2009 - 9:38 am:   Edit Post

It's just the piccolo and reverb...oh, and a little flange/phase on some of it...

So far I've got about 30-40 minutes of this stuff...some longer pieces. It's definitely weird how, listening to it, it seems to turn into these other instruments...lute, mandolin, sitar...
hb3
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Username: hb3

Post Number: 391
Registered: 2-2005
Posted on Thursday, July 02, 2009 - 10:25 am:   Edit Post

Here's another one, you can see what I'm talking about....

"The Umbrellas"

http://www.box.net/shared/m95roxjgog
davehouck
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Post Number: 8310
Registered: 5-2002
Posted on Thursday, July 02, 2009 - 10:39 am:   Edit Post

I really like this one too! Beautiful music, great tone, great playing!

One thing I'm noticing about these box.net streaming tunes, they seem to automatically loop and replay.
hb3
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Post Number: 392
Registered: 2-2005
Posted on Thursday, July 02, 2009 - 10:40 am:   Edit Post

I just noticed that too.
hb3
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Username: hb3

Post Number: 393
Registered: 2-2005
Posted on Thursday, July 02, 2009 - 10:53 am:   Edit Post

So here's the sort of stuff that bedevils me about this...listening to this in the studio for two weeks now, you start to hear all these far-out characteristics...for instance, at the beginning of that track, listening to that guitar line, you start hearing this single note held over it, like a flute. Call me crazy! I actually loaded up my mellotron and found the note and played it, and it sounded exactly like what I was "hearing."

I'd actually appreciate confirmation on this as proof that I'm not insane. Something about the way the harmonics/frequencies are resonating or something?
sonicus
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Post Number: 158
Registered: 5-2009
Posted on Thursday, July 02, 2009 - 10:55 am:   Edit Post

I really like 'Umbrellas" as well ! What is the string gauge and tuning ? This tune really triggers positive mind space for me . SWELL !
davehouck
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Post Number: 8311
Registered: 5-2002
Posted on Thursday, July 02, 2009 - 11:09 am:   Edit Post

I noticed that "extra" part too, and at first I thought it was a keyboard background. It may have something to do with how your reverb is set up. Personally, I think it adds to the overall quality of the sound.
hb3
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Username: hb3

Post Number: 394
Registered: 2-2005
Posted on Thursday, July 02, 2009 - 11:39 am:   Edit Post

Wolf (Wolfy?), it's a slightly wacky tuning, but not that weird. And the typical piccolo strings. It's a very snappy sound, and, for whatever reason, very expressive.

Dave....oh yeah, I like it too. It's just freaky. It takes on this huge, gothic quality at times. Imagine listening to this for two weeks straight. I'm pretty tripped out!

(Message edited by hb3 on July 02, 2009)
hb3
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Username: hb3

Post Number: 395
Registered: 2-2005
Posted on Friday, July 03, 2009 - 6:58 pm:   Edit Post

'Tis done.

Actually, listening via the box player, it seems it plays through the tracks I've got loaded up there, which is currently four...so if you load the player via any of the two links above, it'll play through everything.

Thanks for the words of encouragement, they helped me finish.
hb3
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Username: hb3

Post Number: 398
Registered: 2-2005
Posted on Sunday, July 05, 2009 - 3:28 pm:   Edit Post

Ok, here's the whole blessed thing, should anyone be interested.

I have to say, "Slap" turned out to be the best thing in here. The total throwaway, not even a song, etc. Funny how these things work. I'd probably rank the top three as "Slap," "The Umbrellas," and "Haunted Houses."

"The Kermess" has a very folk-dancey, even medieval feel, named after the painting by Breughel (and poem by William Carlos Williams).

"Positive Venus" is a combination of two earlier pieces, "Positive Violence" and "Venus," thus making "Positive Venus."

"Ariel" is an attempt to do a pretty piece that doesn't turn ominous, like "Haunted Houses." Also shorter. "Haunted Houses" is better, though.

"June Gloom" is sort of Indian-inspired, with a sitar type sound, and structurally, it's the same riff repeated at various rhythms. Check out the ending and tell me you'd think that's a bass.

http://www.box.net/shared/q7g7o51l0y

to_81_0190
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Post Number: 118
Registered: 5-2006
Posted on Tuesday, July 07, 2009 - 2:03 am:   Edit Post

Beautiful tunes! Thank you for the shareing.
hb3
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Username: hb3

Post Number: 404
Registered: 2-2005
Posted on Tuesday, July 07, 2009 - 9:52 am:   Edit Post

Grazie.

I changed the title of "June Gloom" to "Darjeeling Express." Why? Because it references both train sounds and Indian music. Not a movie I'm particularly interested in -- I think I saw about five seconds of it -- but I'd have to guess people who like that movie could also appreciate this music.

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