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For your listening pleasure
A little bit of bluegrass. Since getting a mandolin and a nice Taylor acoustic last year, I have been playing more stuff that is acoustic in nature and exploring a new musical direction. I composed this tune recently. It's actually one of three that I'm working on or have completed that are blue grass influenced. The last one I need to complete is a song for a dear friend of mine who really loved and lived the bluegrass life style, and passed away a few years ago from cancer. This is not that song.... that one will be released in a few weeks probably as a youtube video. I have a few friends working on assembling some pictures..... but I'll tell more about that song project later. But now......this song is called Glendale Lane. It's a BG instrumental tune. http://www.soundclick.com...34&songID=11591420 Enjoy
My website & music: www.herbhartley.com MC4/5/6/X1e.c, on a Custom DAW Focusrite Firewire Saffire Interface BMI/NSAI "Just as the blade chooses the warrior, so too, the song chooses the writer "
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Re:For your listening pleasure
2012/04/22 18:33:54
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Bravo! You make this sound fun and easy. Great skill and great production. Keep 'em coming.
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Re:For your listening pleasure
2012/04/22 19:13:39
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This piece is awesome!!! Very clean, moves along nicely, sounds like it was recorded in a pro studio, extremely well done from the writing to the performing and recording. Is it available to buy, or will it be?
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Re:For your listening pleasure
2012/04/22 19:34:15
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Nice one Herb ! How many of those five hour energy bottles did you down before playing this !  Radio
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Re:For your listening pleasure
2012/04/22 20:13:08
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I've not heard anything quite like this from you before. Who's playing what? Great sounding tune.
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Re:For your listening pleasure
2012/04/22 20:58:53
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I'm sorry for your friend Herb, this song is a fine blue grass tribute. I particularly enjoyed it, as I particularly enjoy this style of music. It does need words though, and vocals, and a cast of harmonies on the refrain/chorus.
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Re:For your listening pleasure
2012/04/22 23:08:10
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I really liked this Herb. Well done.
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Re:For your listening pleasure
2012/04/23 00:23:52
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Wow, very cool, Awesome playing Herb!
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Re:For your listening pleasure
2012/04/23 00:51:35
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Hi Herb, like it a lot, excellent playing and recording.
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Re:For your listening pleasure
2012/04/23 01:20:10
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Marvellous energy and great playing - I like this a lot.
Cheers,
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Re:For your listening pleasure
2012/04/23 07:34:26
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Nice, Just sitting and listening to it was FUN!!!
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Guitarhacker
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Re:For your listening pleasure
2012/04/23 08:45:48
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Lynn, Amateur, Radio, Daryl, BOTR19, Shad, Mike, Rik, Terry and Mike: Thanks guys for listening. I composed this style music for a listing on a reality TV show. Maybe they will like it too. There is another song on my soundclick page called Harvest Time... I haven't and probably won't post it here any time soon.
I have not really done much with Bluegrass as far as writing and recording it until recently. I bought the Taylor and a Mandolin last year and just having them has moved me toward the acoustic side of the music world. I do have a musical background that extends into the BG area of music. Quite a few musician friends are totally into it. When I finish the song for Wolf, I will tell more at that time.
Again thanks for listening.
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Re:For your listening pleasure
2012/04/23 08:59:34
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Wow, your fingers must be on fire! This is staggering musicianship and fantastic composition. Love it. As an aside, I often wonder at the origins of music as you hear music in one country which clearly came from another. Certainly this piece would go down a storm at a Gaelic Ceilidh. So I am guessing the settlers in Blue Grass country included the Celts. They certainly seem to have traveled everywhere!
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Re:For your listening pleasure
2012/04/23 09:23:09
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Thanks Malcomb. And you are most likely correct in the origins of BG. In the Appalachian mountain regions there are settlers from many countries. Here in NC we have many from Scottish descent. They even have a yearly "Highland Games" event that lasts a week (IIRC) which includes song, dance and manly things like log throwing. One long time local musician.... Mike Cross, has Celtic influences in his music. http://www.youtube.com/wa...NY&feature=related
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Re:For your listening pleasure
2012/04/23 15:12:39
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Bluegrass is really populer here in my neck-o-the-woods too...
I have some friends that I used to play with regularly that are just scarry good players...
My buddy, David Sconyers plays killer Banjo, Mandolin, Fiddle, Dobro, Guitar, Piano, Pedal Steel, and sings... David credits Kentucky's own, Bill Monroe, as "The Father of Bluegrass", and his biggest influence...
Of course, David is my biggest BG influence... I've learned a lot fom him, but I don't think I'll ever rise to his level...
I do listen to a lot of Dawg Jazz by David Grisman and I also like
Bella Fleck & the Flecktones...
Great production Herb... great arrangement too... I don't know who's playin Banjo, but he's got skills...
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Re:For your listening pleasure
2012/04/23 19:58:11
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Paddle faster, I hear banjos... I have an extensive collection of grass. And I have some albums too?
post edited by bandontherun19 - 2012/04/23 19:59:37
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Re:For your listening pleasure
2012/04/23 20:07:34
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not nat and BOTR19.... thanks for listening and the comments..... banjo's are a much maligned instrument.....and if I recall the only instrument that is American in heritage.... and they make a nice substitute for a sledge hammer in a pinch.
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Re:For your listening pleasure
2012/04/23 21:32:20
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This is very well done, Herb. Really fine playing and a pleasure to listen to. You get quite a few different tones out of that Taylor. BTW, I've been listening quite a bit of Earl, Lester and Bill lately! Gotta love Bluegrass!!!!
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Re:For your listening pleasure
2012/04/23 21:35:22
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Thanks for listening Tap.
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Re:For your listening pleasure
2012/04/24 00:51:46
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Great stuff sir. Weirdly relaxing bearing in mind the pace that your fingers are working at :)
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Re:For your listening pleasure
2012/04/24 07:47:34
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awesome stuff Herb, a pretty good mix too, maybe take a shade of bass off the solo guitar, but that's nit-picking really
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Re:For your listening pleasure
2012/04/24 08:37:51
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Herb - great job! The playing and production is wonderful. You are very talented. Your playing is awesome!
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Re:For your listening pleasure
2012/04/24 11:59:27
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Fantastic stuff Herb, I had no idea you could play like that, hats off to you sir. banjo's are a much maligned instrument.....and if I recall the only instrument that is American in heritage
African in origin, I think.
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Guitarhacker
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Re:For your listening pleasure
2012/04/24 16:32:24
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Daryl1968, MGH, Rimshot & James 1213.... thanks for listening...
Several people have complimented me on the playing and have attributed those blazing licks to me ......Suffice it to say that is not me. I am honored that you think it was me playing.
I am simply the humble composer and the engineer/producer.
My website & music: www.herbhartley.com MC4/5/6/X1e.c, on a Custom DAW Focusrite Firewire Saffire Interface BMI/NSAI "Just as the blade chooses the warrior, so too, the song chooses the writer "
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Re:For your listening pleasure
2012/04/24 16:34:32
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still bloody good composing, engineering, producing good sir :)
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Re:For your listening pleasure
2012/04/24 16:37:38
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My website & music: www.herbhartley.com MC4/5/6/X1e.c, on a Custom DAW Focusrite Firewire Saffire Interface BMI/NSAI "Just as the blade chooses the warrior, so too, the song chooses the writer "
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Re:For your listening pleasure
2012/04/24 16:56:49
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Guitarhacker
Several people have complimented me on the playing and have attributed those blazing licks to me ......Suffice it to say that is not me. I am honored that you think it was me playing.
OK...so who is playing?
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Re:For your listening pleasure
2012/04/24 17:57:29
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LOL! He cheats :-) But it sounds good, and I guess in the end it's all about the music. I've played some banjo tracks and it is a PITA... You can go to youtube and put in banjo lesson and you'll get a bunch of good old boys showing you "technique." I apply that technique to the keyboard, the forward and backward rolls. It took me two weeks to do a banjo track on Midnight Flyer. It takes considerable skill to play a real banjo. Not as much as the fiddle? But it's a difficult instrument to play well. The really cool thing about keys is, "if you can play the keys? you can play any instrument," because they can all be synthesized. Some would be very difficult, i.e., a harmonica? But banjo can be synthesized pretty easily and accurately. It just takes a lot of patience, and or talent to build that midi track...
post edited by bandontherun19 - 2012/04/24 17:59:12
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Re:For your listening pleasure
2012/04/24 21:33:34
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bandontherun19
LOL! He cheats :-) But it sounds good, and I guess in the end it's all about the music.
I've played some banjo tracks and it is a PITA... You can go to youtube and put in banjo lesson and you'll get a bunch of good old boys showing you "technique." I apply that technique to the keyboard, the forward and backward rolls. It took me two weeks to do a banjo track on Midnight Flyer. It takes considerable skill to play a real banjo. Not as much as the fiddle? But it's a difficult instrument to play well.
The really cool thing about keys is, "if you can play the keys? you can play any instrument," because they can all be synthesized. Some would be very difficult, i.e., a harmonica? But banjo can be synthesized pretty easily and accurately. It just takes a lot of patience, and or talent to build that midi track...
+1
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Re:For your listening pleasure
2012/04/24 21:53:31
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Q: How can you tell the stage you're playing on is level?
A: The banjo player is drooling out of both sides of his mouth.
" I used to be a "Banjo owner"
but I'm past that, and I'm much better now...
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