ToneCarver
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Slippery Slope
Getting back into the acoustic guitar these days .. here is a piece with keys and guitar called "Slippery Slope". Comments, critiques, opinions and suggestions warmly welcomed. Slippery Slope Thanks!
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RE: Slippery Slope
2008/06/08 00:07:10
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Well, that was interesting!! Very well played, as usual. Fun to listen to!  Great job!
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RE: Slippery Slope
2008/06/08 00:15:55
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Yah mon. Me feelin irie. Me come light de splif, me no bomboclot
Very cool. Well done. Really enjoyed that.
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RE: Slippery Slope
2008/06/08 10:45:09
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This put a smile on my face Bill! A man of many talents might you be? I liked everything about this. Reggae w/ a little New Orleans vibe to it.... Yes..I love the all the guitars!!! Good job!
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RE: Slippery Slope
2008/06/08 16:56:16
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Janet -- thanks, fun is good Shad -- thanks for the listen and the comment, glad you enjoyed it Larry -- many thanks. I'm still kind of tentative in a few places on the guitar .. but it was different and fun to do. After listening this morning the mix seems to me a bit clumpy and crowded in the middle, so I'll be working up some refinements and will repost if I make significant progress.
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RE: Slippery Slope
2008/06/08 17:01:31
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Nice. Guitars recorded well, hard to do with acoustic slide. Like the brief sax in the back.
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RE: Slippery Slope
2008/06/08 19:29:48
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Bill, I loved that seesaw bass part through out. Very cool piece.
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RE: Slippery Slope
2008/06/08 19:55:04
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If I could own only one instrument, it would be an acoustic guitar... This song, very eclectic. (normally I don’t enjoy Irish music)
Horns in the back?
Slide?
Strings?
That funky percussion?
A ray alternative lifestyle feel?
But it all seemed to fit together cohesively kinda Bob Marley meets the bayou?
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RE: Slippery Slope
2008/06/09 07:11:45
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Well now that is different Bill, a real melting-pot of styles and influences going on. Like David Gilmour jamming with Burning Spear and Dr John..how cool is that?  Lovely tone on the lead acoustic that comes in later on. So, how did this one start Bill, with that reggae groove?
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RE: Slippery Slope
2008/06/09 19:00:49
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Mark -- thanks a bunch. The guitar has a fishman pickup (piezo) and is recorded direct. The sax line started out as a prominent part of the piece but took more and more of a background role as guitars were added. Snip, snip. Tom -- thanks, glad you found it enjoyable. Robby -- it's funny, I don't set out to go eclectic on purpose, but often end up there just from following whatever whims move me for the song. Sometimes it works out, sometimes not  . Glad you enjoyed it. James -- many thanks. This one started with the bass strings and other stringish things as a kind of a purposeful foundation to jam over. Tried a few things with the sax patch, then broke out the acoustic and slide, and added the reggae chords to cap things off and underscore the rhythm. I am hoping to work the slide parts (maybe some compression and spatial fx) to bring them up in the mix a little more if I can.
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RE: Slippery Slope
2008/06/09 20:00:25
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It's like The Terminator Reggae Band :-) Hasta, la Rasta, baby.
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RE: Slippery Slope
2008/06/10 15:57:51
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Hi Bill, did listen to this the other day and caught a vibe I couldnt shake off  after repeated listens today / now I feel I'm ready to give you a little feedback I'm not realy getting the whole "Reggea Genre" that everyone is making refrence to I bee hearing something else imo "Slippery Slope" ... has more of a "Save My People from the Oppresor Powers that be" type of vibe going on for it.... the slide playing that you are doing on acoustic has more of a Field Call style / vibe to it the acoustic grtr under the slide tone is almost a Middle Eastern / Oud sound I honestly got more of a Tibeten Exodus fleeing to safetly vibe rather than a Jah Rastafeee (sp) vibe have you ever heard Mingus's tune Freedom on Mingus Mingus Mingus ? the vocals and choir reminds me of Slippery Slope ...the vibe message and feel for giggles I played them one after the other , Freedom then Slippery Slope this was in interesting little listen .....  and the I superimposed Mingus 's spoken intro over your tune by simply playing both tunes at the same time ...whew aside from a few sync ups it was uncanny how well they seemed to go together .... anyway......... Bill I did enjoy your song as it was recorded I just cant help myself with sone of the places music brings me to Kenny ..... edited for spelling cause my stinking m and b keys on my keyboard keeps winding up MIA 
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RE: Slippery Slope
2008/06/10 16:14:21
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Oh, man I loved all those sounds! Is that a dobro sliding up and down? Very infectious groove and pleasant allllllll the way. Thanks for sharing.
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RE: Slippery Slope
2008/06/10 17:41:18
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I don't know Bill..that was just plain fun. I know I had a crazy grin the whole cut.
Don't know if you did finger tapping on the back of an acoustic...I did that one time for bongos on a Beatles tune...crazy.
And there is some very slick picking going down.
Excellent.
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RE: Slippery Slope
2008/06/11 00:27:38
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Dean -- lol, Thanks. Kenny -- I'll have to get a copy of that tune and check it out. The only Mingus I have heard are some of the tunes that Joni Mithcell did, but even then only a few and they were covers/interpretations. My local library loans CDs, I'll have to drop by and see if they have some Mingus. Thanks for the listens and the cool encouragement. Good to see you on the forums again too. Rick -- no, not a dobro, just a Tacoma acoustic, glass slide, recorded direct. I did use a little distortion on during mixing though, Voxengo Boogex, great freebie. Thanks Rick. Michael -- thanks, made my day. Yes, I have tried tapping the body for percussion, tried paper clips between the strings for sitary harmonics, violin bows, lots of zany things just for fun. Speaking of tapping, check this guy out if you haven't seem him before, EriK Mongrain, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bb9cidk0Bfs, also Andy McKee http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ddn4MGaS3N4&feature=related.
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RE: Slippery Slope
2008/06/11 02:17:54
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Hi Bill, Yeah , I miss you guys my current vacation from the forums started off well enough a dose of daily learning and practice on my gtr after a while it got fugly ....I lost my focus and turned my musical absence into an exercise of arm chair music production from the looney binn I got to come back even if it's only to spank our mutual bud Larry with some new tunes send me an e-mail at .....my screen name @ yahoo.com I would be happy to send you the tune ..... Kenny
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RE: Slippery Slope
2008/06/12 22:21:19
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like the piece TC! some great playing happening here. great melody line as well!
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RE: Slippery Slope
2008/06/13 16:04:52
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man whatta cool song...lots goin on and nicely mix....very cool feel i really like the lil riffs in the back around 1:00
cool stuff!
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RE: Slippery Slope
2008/06/15 07:51:55
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Great stuff...and yeah, the Voxengo Boogex is actually pretty amazing as a freebie. Still, what's even better is the subtlety with which you applied it. Just enough tone there, man...very well done!
A good listen. I can hear where others are coming from on the Reggae with the first few bars, but after that, I agree with Kenny, as you deftly change the whole picture.
My one nit is the bongo/conga (?) sound. I think maybe a spring verb...or maybe they are too dead center...or maybe they fad too much in parts...not sure...but think you might try something else there, since they can really add to the overall feel. Nice feel on the playing.
Well done!
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RE: Slippery Slope
2008/06/15 23:35:56
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Dazed -- thanks much for the listen and the kind words.
Tom -- thanks, so glad you enjoyed it.
Mark - thanks, man. Boogex is a great freebie (I am a big Voxengo fan in general). I appreciate the comment on the hand drums. I have been trying different things with hand percussion sounds 'played in' from the keys, of course I have much to learn but am learning and having fun along the way. Thanks.
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RE: Slippery Slope
2008/06/15 23:59:24
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Hey Bill! Nice song. Never heard anything like this. Oh yea, that's a good thing. Different is good. Loved that guitar tone @3:00! Nice.
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RE: Slippery Slope
2008/06/17 00:48:13
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Very catchy tune. I loved the feel of it throughout.
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RE: Slippery Slope
2008/06/18 23:49:27
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This is excellent (not exaggerating). It is extremely remeniscent of the video game music from Monkey Island 3 (Curse of Monkey Island). That music had an island feel. Your music has a western town of similar weirdness.
Great drudgery rhythm (like 16 Tons). It's got a groove you can play a video game to. Capitol, capitol.
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RE: Slippery Slope
2008/06/19 08:52:59
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Max -- thanks for the listen and the props. Much appreciated.
tonedef36 -- glad you enjoyed it, thanks.
Matthew -- well, thank you very much. Most encouraging.
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