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Topic: Humoresque (Dvorak) country-style |
Mike Neer
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NJ
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Posted 26 Sep 2024 9:54 am |
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I had a lot of fun arranging and playing this over the past two nights. I wasn’t even aware that so many others had recorded their own versions of it in other contexts (Chet Atkins, Joe Venuti, etc.)
Recorded over the course of two nights, I had no idea about the 3rd section when I recorded the first 2. It was only last night that once I opened my DAW it hit me to use a Western style for that theme.
Anyway, I played all the stuff and very carefully put together a pretty cool drum track. Oh, and I use a Tonex (through an amp for the first time) using a capture by Joe Rogers of a Standel XV. You are hearing my aluminum Clinesmith tuned to C6.
The video is pure AI weirdness. I had another vid where I found some clogging footage that worked so unbelievably well, but the filmmaker wanted a hefty licensing fee.
https://youtu.be/ZFOpxAcG3QM?si=SCWzTOXHx3H-2YZ2
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David Irving
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South Australia, Australia
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Posted 28 Sep 2024 4:46 am
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| Didn't ever know that was Dvorak. That's grand. |
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Mike Neer
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NJ
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Rich Arnold
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Tennessee, USA
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Posted 22 Oct 2024 3:26 am
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I think this is just about 50 years ahead of it's time. Some musicians are playing for an audience in the future.
I hope you live long enough to see its popularity Mike.
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Andy Volk
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Boston, MA
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Posted 22 Oct 2024 4:47 am
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That is really great, Mike. A textbook example of seeing beyond the cliches of genre to something totally new.
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Mike Neer
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NJ
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Posted 23 Oct 2024 7:54 am
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I think this is just about 50 years ahead of it's time. Some musicians are playing for an audience in the future.
I hope you live long enough to see its popularity Mike.
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Thanks David, Rich and Andy.
Like many musicians (and I’m sure you can relate), I start off playing for an audience of one: me. It’s when I start doing things to please others that I find it to be less successful. That is why I just keep doing things the way I like and hope that someday people will discover and dig it. Not much I can do about that.
I always say this: I’ve listened to and studied so much music in my life, even down to what all the other instruments are doing and what makes the music work, that I have a solid foundation to work from. All of the music that was beyond my reach, like classical, even some jazz, I have adapted to where I think it comes together into a cohesive platform for my steel playing. I’m still learning and I hope that the process gets better with each new piece. I’ve got about a dozen pieces I am working on now that are truly some of my favorites of my lifetime. That’s the thing that keeps me going. Arranging is my greatest passion, and I can thank Oliver Nelson, Clare Fischer, Maurice Ravel, Duke Ellington, Nelson Riddle, etc. for helping me realize this. I do a very simplified version of it.
So all the studying I’ve done, it turns out, was just to become a better, more interesting rock and roller. I have been reunited with my earliest passion for music, which was born from my parents’ 45s (Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, the Platters, etc.).
Way more info than anyone needed. 😂
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