For your listening pleasure

Re:For your listening pleasure (Janet)

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 22:22:58 GMT

Well, I AM the piano player, aren't I?

That song is still one of my favorite collabs. Perhaps because it's the first time I'd heard anyone play guitars on one of my songs...and what you played just blew me away. I wish I had a video of my reaction when I first heard it...bad mix or whatever. But anyway...

I still rather enjoy hearing you play.

Re:For your listening pleasure (BIABDude)

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 18:24:29 GMT

+ +1 - - -Holy Band In A Box - - -
The Bluegrass solo Library is a hard one to make sound good. I like the banjo samples the best

Re:For your listening pleasure (Guitarhacker)

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 14:02:54 GMT

thanks for the listen GR

Re:For your listening pleasure (geeare1)

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 11:45:44 GMT

Hi Herb,

I love this kinda stuff in general and this tune in particular...great job!

Re:For your listening pleasure (Guitarhacker)

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 09:01:18 GMT

BOTR..... yes.. it's your turn

RobertB: thank you sir.

SJA thank you too, and yes.... I do have a few more in the works. I have a number of projects on the burner at any given time.... but there are definitely plans for more bluegrass tunes. A friend who plays in an active bluegrass band heard these both and was also fairly impressed. His band actually wants to cover Harvest Lane.

Re:For your listening pleasure (Guitarhacker)

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 08:57:58 GMT

Janet

Yeah, me too. As long as my turn lasts the whole time. :) But you already knew that too. :)

yeah... but when I first met you, you believed your turn started with the first note and ended with the last note in the song.....

I remember the grief I got when I mixed the first song we did.... September Nights..... and people complained they couldn't hear your piano in "parts " of the song.

Re:For your listening pleasure (sja)

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 05:50:12 GMT

Herb,

This tune and Harvest Lane are outstanding. I really enjoyed both of them several times. Great playing and production. Please add some more when you can.

Thanks for posting.

sja

Re:For your listening pleasure (RobertB)

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 23:31:56 GMT

Very nice, Herb. Yes, the playing is sweet, but your seamless transitions in the tradeoffs really do this justice. Kudo's on the engineering.
This is a delightful piece, and I have listened to it several times.

Re:For your listening pleasure (bandontherun19)

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 23:28:10 GMT

It's my turn...

Re:For your listening pleasure (Janet)

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 23:26:47 GMT

Yeah, me too. As long as my turn lasts the whole time. :) But you already knew that too. :)

Re:For your listening pleasure (Guitarhacker)

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 19:20:17 GMT

Thanks Janet. I've always liked the "take turns " thing..... but you already knew that.

Re:For your listening pleasure (Janet)

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 18:11:15 GMT

This is just great, Herb! :) I love how the instruments 'take turns'.

Re:For your listening pleasure (drma173)

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 22:42:57 GMT

Great work man like the country feel to it make me wana moonshine

Re:For your listening pleasure (Guitarhacker)

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 22:06:27 GMT

I love a good banjo player joke but my friend Willy doesn't think they're funny...... Willy plays a banjo.

Re:For your listening pleasure (notnat)

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 21:53:31 GMT

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...

Re:For your listening pleasure (Guitarhacker)

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 21:33:34 GMT

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...

Re:For your listening pleasure (bandontherun19)

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:57:29 GMT

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...

Re:For your listening pleasure (jamesg1213)

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:56:49 GMT

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?

Re:For your listening pleasure (Guitarhacker)

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:37:38 GMT

thank you sir

Re:For your listening pleasure (daryl1968)

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:34:32 GMT

still bloody good composing, engineering, producing good sir :)

Re:For your listening pleasure (Guitarhacker)

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:32:24 GMT

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.

Re:For your listening pleasure (jamesg1213)

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 11:59:27 GMT

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.

Re:For your listening pleasure (Rimshot)

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 08:37:51 GMT

Herb - great job! The playing and production is wonderful. You are very talented. Your playing is awesome!

Rimshot

Re:For your listening pleasure (mgh)

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 07:47:34 GMT

awesome stuff Herb, a pretty good mix too, maybe take a shade of bass off the solo guitar, but that's nit-picking really

Re:For your listening pleasure (daryl1968)

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:51:46 GMT

Great stuff sir. Weirdly relaxing bearing in mind the pace that your fingers are working at :)

Re:For your listening pleasure (Guitarhacker)

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 21:35:22 GMT

Thanks for listening Tap.

Re:For your listening pleasure (Tap)

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 21:32:20 GMT

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!!!!

Re:For your listening pleasure (Guitarhacker)

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 20:07:34 GMT

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.

Re:For your listening pleasure (bandontherun19)

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 19:58:11 GMT

Paddle faster, I hear banjos...

I have an extensive collection of grass. And I have some albums too?

Re:For your listening pleasure (notnat)

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 15:12:39 GMT

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...