Ramblin Man

My attempt at Ramblin' Man. Comments welcome. Thanks for viewing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sv1oIRvBPMk&feature=youtu.be

Great Job...Great performance...vocals and lead solid....Have watched a few of your videos...trying to figure out the peeps randomly wandering in and out of the shots..lol

Hotrod40 this looks decieving because of the camera angle.

It's a bar I've had a house gig at 3 nights a week (Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday) for 2 years now. They don't have a stage. I'm set up in front of the kitchen area. Low budget I know, but the flip side is: I make 28k per year after taxes for this place alone.

I play the bigger clubs on the weekends with full band.

thanks for the explaination...thought it was a kitchen...thanks for sharing the tunes.

Joe,
I dig it! Tell us about your band or your setup... I dig how the videos are the same and I really dig that you are making good dough doing it! Great job!

are you using a looper on the solos or???

Nice job!

Get bent what I'm doing is something basically any guitarist can do if they choose to.

First I study the parts that make up the song (by ear). I don't use any guitar tabs or anything to learn guitar or bass parts.

I don't know how to play drums, so I use an old out dated drum machine: Boss Dr rhythm Dr-5 from the mid 90's. I listen to the beat and program the drum parts measure by measure. Usually I go into the drum machine and tune the drums+ pick what percussion instruments will make the kit then sub mix it into 1 track when all the measures of beats are programmed. (sometimes seperate the snare from the rest of the drums in order to add reverb or eq).

Always using midi clock to sync. So when your done with the drums you push Play/Record button on the recorder and the drum machine simutaneously starts.

Once the Drums are recorded I pick up a Bass Guitar and lay that track down after I learn it.
(usually punch in method)

Then I usually listen to the harmony vocals and record myself singing those parts. I don't consider myself a good singer. I have a limited range, so maybe if it's a high part I might use a little pitch slow down and record those high parts if I can't get 'em naturally (95% of the time I can reach that note) or I just arrange the vocal harmonies in a way that's acceptable to me.

If there are keyboards then I sequence them internally into my Korg TR-61. Then once again using midi clock I sync that unit with the recorder.

Usually I lay the extra guitar parts down last.

As you begin the recording process you must make a midi map on your recording device. To duplicate human feel of a drummer (because the tempo in almost every song you hear slightly changes b/p/m through out the song).

Must have 1 track dedicated as a click track. Through it's channel output into maybe a little monitor. You need to know when the song starts so you hear click track through your monitor of 4 beats then BOOM the song starts through the PA system but your click doesn't (so nobody hears the click but you).

Also you want to program your tracks more for live performance than as a finished cd. Another words the audience would get turned off if you just pushed a button and walked off stage. You want to perform as much of the main parts as possible. So if it's 2 guitar song you might just want to record the rhythm under your solo and then when your done with your solo you yourself go back to playing the rhythm.

I think I forgot to mention this: Once your backup band parts are created then mix them down into channel 1 of another DAW recorder while your click track is muted. On the click track channel 's output, send that click signal into channel 2 of the other DAW. So your are not mastering the final mix your just mixing down what the audience hears (because if you do you will have no seperation of click and the background music).

Oh and make sure you save the song data back into your computer and make another backup in case your computer crashes (you don't wan't to lose that data)

Whew I'm tired after explaning that. I hope it's intellegible. Thanks again



and ADinNYC I can't tell you how glad I am to hear from you. It's so nice to be able to interact with you again on this forum my friend. Thanks

Holy cow JOE! I was impressed and thought you were cool before... after reading that... you absolutely rule! thanks for the explanation! that is amazing and clever and sounds great... I really like your voice too!

GREAT Job.

Whoa Joe - you are awesome, I'd give anything to be able to do that stuff.

I'm so technically challenged, I haven't played out since my band broke up years ago.
I go to a jam session or two at a local studio sometimes, but haven't done that lately either. It's so musically unsatisfying after having fronted a band for so many years. But if I could get something similar to what you describe happening, I would.

I read your post with great interest, but don't understand most of the processes you describe.

Very nice,not an easy tune to do well,great guitar sound,and nice vocals.

Chris 69 SS
Chabby
jglenn

Thanks guys