Danny Danzi

AT


Of course it is.  If you can't play it live ...  Recording is cheating.  Using a mic is cheating, as well as an electric amp.

a real musician will bang two stones together to make their music.

;-)

Even better, one time I didn't have any controller hooked up to play drums....I so hate programming. So I grabbed a mic, and started mouthing drum parts. Had kick, snare, hats, toms, ride and crashes. Recorded them all one track at a time....and ran Drumagog on each track....instant drum kit! Hahaha! :)
 
-Danny

Ditto! But you guys do have skills though! And as you probably know that their are programs out there that turn beatboxing into sequenced patterns. But one video on YT I saw was absolutely ridiculous - I'll post it when I find it. And @AT: That was all there was back in the cave people days - so, this section we call percussion is very VERY ancient!

I thought he meant an actual ARP as well.

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to play any of these, is to not cheat.






i saw roger fisher of heart, trigger an Arp synth with his guitar when they did the 'dog and butterfly' tour.




good ARP

To me, ARP is Address Resolution Protocol. 

To me it will always mean Air Raid Precautions

If the goal is MUSIC, then to me anything goes (if it's musical of course.)
If the goal is musicianSHIP, it might be cheating.

I have starting using arps and/or loops quite a bit in my dance-oriented music.  The arps/loops are just ingredients used in my musical soup, just like cooking.... if I use a Pet Ritz frozen pie crust for my pumpkin pie (which is SPECTACULAR, BTW), do you say I'm not a cook since I don't make my own crust?

I think if you can use an arp or loop in a creative, musical, artistic way, which results in a song that people want to hear, you have succeeded.  Some people can't do that.  Some can.

Listen to the very opening synth lick of this song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJA6CXQI71U

I could never play that.  So did I cheat?  But does it sound OK?

Peace, out.  :-)

Along time ago I saw a Blue Man Group.
"cheating" didn't cross my mind...not sure if they used an arp though.

i think that was a Harp.

tbosco


If the goal is MUSIC, then to me anything goes (if it's musical of course.)
If the goal is musicianSHIP, it might be cheating.

I have starting using arps and/or loops quite a bit in my dance-oriented music.  The arps/loops are just ingredients used in my musical soup, just like cooking.... if I use a Pet Ritz frozen pie crust for my pumpkin pie (which is SPECTACULAR, BTW), do you say I'm not a cook since I don't make my own crust?

I think if you can use an arp or loop in a creative, musical, artistic way, which results in a song that people want to hear, you have succeeded.  Some people can't do that.  Some can.

Listen to the very opening synth lick of this song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJA6CXQI71U

I could never play that.  So did I cheat?  But does it sound OK?

Peace, out.  :-)

Pff...screw that intro lick....that tune was awesome sounding from start to finish. LOL! Great production brother. What piano was that? Sounded like the East West stuff. Ok, the intro lick was good...lol...and no, you didn't cheat...but I was blown away by what came after. Hahahaha...that was great Tony...way to go. Set us up for a little synth lick and then the monster tune comes. LOL! :)
 
-Danny 

Wow, thanks Danny!  If I remember correctly, every single sound in that tune came from my Yamaha Motif XF7, and the Piano voice is called Glascow, which I tweaked a hair to add a bit of treble and took out a little reverb.

My friend Dawn played the piano part, and I added all the orchestral sounds, percussion, and THE ARP afterwards.