wogg
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Some white boy reggae for you
I'm a little weirded out by the use of the genre name, but the title sums it up... White Boy I'd been listening to some old 311, whom I was really into back in the 90's and still dig. After practicing my slow groove 16th feel on the drums some more, I composed this together and finished it up over Christmas break. All live tracks with acoustic drums, even the organ was left sans quantization, though I did click and delete some fat finger action.
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Re: Some white boy reggae for you
2016/12/27 22:43:01
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StudioCat > I use Windows 10 and Sonar Platinum. I have a touch screen. I make some videos. This one shows how to do a physical loopback on the RME UCX to get many more equalizer nodes.
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Re: Some white boy reggae for you
2016/12/27 23:52:57
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Fun! I lived in Florida and went out on the water alot. This is the type of music we'd hear. Reminds me of a warm sunny day, clear, and visibility unlimited. Why don't you write some lyrics?
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Re: Some white boy reggae for you
2016/12/28 00:53:34
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Sounds like this was fun to make!
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wogg
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Re: Some white boy reggae for you
2016/12/28 09:02:34
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eph221
Why don't you write some lyrics?
I ask myself that all the time. I overthink them... I think. I listen to stuff like Soul Coughing and wonder, why can't I just string a bunch on nonsensical words together like that? Or Primus and wonder, why not make up a story about some fictional character? I'll keep the idea open for sure, this tune is pretty well structured for lyrics. It stands alright on its own, but I agree that lyrics could make it really good for a much broader audience.
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Re: Some white boy reggae for you
2016/12/28 10:31:13
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Not really into reggae myself, but this seemed pretty well put together.
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Re: Some white boy reggae for you
2016/12/28 11:00:56
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Great stuff - this is right up my alley music-wise. The Clash would be proud of this.
Great playing all round - impressive mix.
Would sound great with vocals as others have said but I enjoyed what you have here.
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Re: Some white boy reggae for you
2017/01/02 01:13:03
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wogg
I'm a little weirded out by the use of the genre name, but the title sums it up... White Boy
I'd been listening to some old 311, whom I was really into back in the 90's and still dig. After practicing my slow groove 16th feel on the drums some more, I composed this together and finished it up over Christmas break. All live tracks with acoustic drums, even the organ was left sans quantization, though I did click and delete some fat finger action.
311 's always a favorite of mine. They and jamiroquai were real innovators.
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Re: Some white boy reggae for you
2017/01/12 16:31:00
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I'm not really a reggae listener, but I liked this.  Cool groove, as always, and more guitar/instrumentation than I recall hearing on some of your other tunes. Well done.
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wogg
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Re: Some white boy reggae for you
2017/01/13 10:33:37
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Thanks Steve!
The instrumentation isn't complicated at all, 2 guitar + one organ track to go with the bass and drums. I think the main difference is that this song is intentionally not structured as a bass feature like I tend to do. So while there certainly isn't additional instrumentation in place, it's much more prominent and I'm pretty happy with how it played out.
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