“SPAIN” collaboration featuring spacey & notnat... ... (RE-MIXED)

This version of  Chick Corea’s “Spain” features Michael Hendley (spacey) on guitars, and me on keys... Enjoy...
 
Remixed version... without prelude,
Drums bumped a bit, Piano and lead guitar EQ'd slightly... Lead guitar ambiance fx removed...
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/page_music.cfm?bandID=769187
 
 

i've always dug this song..
but there's something strange and synthetic sounding about this particular cover....
it's almost as if all the backing tracks are sequenced instead of played....

the soundclick player doesn't help much, it makes the sound very flat an undimensional...

i don't care for the sound of the main keyboard part, but i love the playing.

i guess i'm curious about how this was recorded....

Thanks for listening guys...
This was an interesting process… I heard a short solo guitar version of this by Michael, and since I used to play the song years ago in a rock/jazz fusion band, I suggested we collaborate… Except for the guitars, all the parts were entered from my midi keyboard, (using all of my fingers and thumbs) directly on individual midi tracks in Sonar, I quantized, looped and step edited everything… It took a lot of time and work… If I were a better keyboard player it would have been a lot easier… I used DemPro for the bass sound, and Session Drummer III, The Rhodes sound came from my Roland XP-60 and a Yamaha Mu-100R… The flute sound is from a Yamaha PSR2000…
 
Michael and I had to compromise on the speed and timing of the song, and eventually he sent me a midi sequence created with his midi guitar, that helped me sync up to his groove…
 
It was an ambitious project, but fun…  
 

Great playing, guys!  From the sounds of it, this was a bear to put together, but you did it!  ;-)

Sounds like you guys are having fun together. Its great that you can find people who you can collab with.

  Nice performance.

I love this song, and you guys did a great job on it. Love it!!

Thanks Michael... It was a pleasure...

Your guitar parts were the "piece de resistance"...

This sounds like it was real hard to do.  The flute is super convincing. The rhythm section of bass and drums is super buried and I would like to hear it a nudge louder.

Great playing on the ax by Spacey. Wish I could pick like that.

really nice work, guys!  this is definitely different from your "style" frank, but hey, I think it's important to venture outside of "the box" occassionally!  and you've pulled this off really well.  REALLY nice guitar, Michael!  excellent playing

and I agree with james - the flute is really good sounding there.  you say that's from a PSR2000?  wow.  did you record that directly or was that MIDI and sent back thru?  did you add reverb from the keyboard or were all FX done in Sonar?  what FX did you use on the flute?  I'm really interested in that because it sounds marvelous!

I think the shortcomings of this tune I'm resposible for. I let the "atmosphere" here get to me.
Frank was nothing but a very cool guy and offered great advice in hopes of moving forward. I was very down and stated it would probably be the last thing I ever did here and I should probably get back to writing.
He tried to continue as stated, with the additional parts...I mentioned I couldn't even keep track of where beat 1 was...very unprofessional of me. I am very sorry I let things get to me. No excuse.

But thank you guys very much for the compliments and Batsbrew I should have added to "tremelo" ...with " lack of feeling". My concern was that I performed mechanically and it made it into the parts. I knew your ears could pick that up.

James- thank you very much my friend.

LpMike75- thanks for listening and commenting.

Beagle- You should have heard the midi guitar flute I sent to Frank! He was so cool about letting me know the tune could use a flute..and still needed one! I laughed. I am impressed with that Yamaha flute of his, and he can play the thing!

Thanks Beagle… I had fun... Michael was terrific to work with...
I think we all were a little bummed out by the vitriolic atmosphere here lately...

I played the adlibbed “Sweet Flute” licks directly from the PSR-2000 during the chorus… No wind controller, or fx… It’s a pretty convincing patch…

I've just uploaded a RE-MIXED version... 

notnat


Thanks Beagle… I had fun... Michael was terrific to work with...
I think we all were a little bummed out by the vitriolic atmosphere here lately...

I played the adlibbed “Sweet Flute” licks directly from the PSR-2000 during the chorus… No wind controller, or fx… It’s a pretty convincing patch…

I've just uploaded a RE-MIXED version... 

wow, then I'm really impressed with it!
 
yes, we're all bummed about the atmosphere.  in fact i've not been in the songs forum very much at all in the last several months because I've been tired of the childish behavior by some.
 
glad I came in and listened to this, tho!  great job!

Thanks again Beagle and Grant...

and it shows.
there's a lot going on in there.....