Backing Track Challenge 389 Funk

[Len058]

A variation with more funk and less patience. Still not happy but oh well

 

[Gytaurust]

Ya know...some of these tracks are so good that all I hope to accomplish is not to funk 'em up...
Thanks once again @Mellencaster

 

[Alan L Cole]

@Alan L Cole - Love the visuals with the air guitar . Lovely theme and playing.

Thanks, Mike. Really nice fade in on the intro of your take. Definitely a different take on a funk track driven by your use of reverb and the whammy bar(30 sec mark, ex). Cool!

 

[klasaine]

Ya know...some of these tracks are so good that all I hope to accomplish is not to funk 'em up...
Thanks once again @Mellencaster

Nice Allman Bros. quote!

 

[guitarsophist]

Strat. Neck. Funk.

 

[udoering]

@estreet : very nice version, expressive playing with technical garnishments.
@Len058 : this one may sound more like funk (I am no expert on this), but I wished I could say something to change your lacking happiness.
@Gytaurust : well, you transformed that bt from a string quartett into a symphonic orchestra; very well done!
@guitarsophist : interesting guitar sound, could also be another instrument. I dig that you structered your playing well, there´s a theme. Nicve!

 

[Len058]

@Len058 : this one may sound more like funk (I am no expert on this), but I wished I could say something to change your lacking happiness.

Thanks! I just need to practice and close the gaps between positions on the neck. Progress is just a bit slow, that's all. And I missed the beat, a few times.

 

[guitarsophist]

interesting guitar sound, could also be another instrument

It's just a strat neck pickup through Tukan's Guitar Amp in what I believe is supposed to be a Deluxe sim. I added some compression and some reverb and a touch of tremolo. It sounds like a strat to me. I did seven takes in quick succession and I was going to comp them, but the seventh one was the best, so it's all one take.

 

[belleswell]

Thanks Mike for another fine BT.
Done with the AO 60's LPB that is my current fave.

Respect and thanks to all who posted. I listened first this time and it may
have influenced my take, but it's hard for me to tell.

I loved the different takes as everyone has different phrasing to this.

There are some very seriously gifted musicians amongst us. (Not me)

Done with the new guitar. AO 60s. The Lake Placid Blue makes it sound better
than all of the takes I had with the Les Paul. I tried and so did Lester. He
could not do what that dang tele could, so he shamed himself into his case
to rise another day. Maybe.

Thanks for the listen.
Jeff

A pond pic of a beaver that visited us last spring.

 

[Mellencaster]

@Len058 - I sincerely enjoyed your first version . You challenge yourself to a more expressive phrasing on this one and I think you've accomplished your goal. Nice!
@Gytaurust - Lovely mixture of wind instruments and guitar. I get that odd feeling when the time of hippies, make love not war was at its peak when I listened to your version. Love is my weapon, music is my religion, and peace is in my soul.
@guitarsophist - I quite like that throaty tone when you hit the lower registers. Very nice phrasing all through.
@belleswell - Ha, you always catch me off guard with the track modulation. I should know better by now. Very nice two guitar tracks, sweet tones, and a very enjoyable version.

 

[guitarsophist]

I grew up with this beautiful Man and his family living underneath, while my Uncle and Aunt had the upstairs of a beautiful Spanish style duplex. There’s a bunch of his stuff for free use on YouTube-under the title JamersonShook.

He’s got a bunch of videos/basses and they all sound great.

These were studio guys-heavy weights with low egos. he doesn’t feature his face but sure looks like Ernie McDaniels to me-My uncle was not a slouch either, He played with the Doors, Elvis both Costello and Presley, The Association, just They got simple tones that are timeless usually out of a P or similar bass and a lot of old Ampeg amp in the cabinet B15? ‘s, or whatever.

I hear my uncle just moved to Texas, back in the states after being out in Scotland and Germany for a good while, besides his service which I think was also overseas in the Navy, Way back when he was young, and sadly Ernie passed on but he’s left us tons of videos. And check out his discography he’s on Great albums with stellar people, all the way down the line to playing on the teddy Ruxpin motorized bear tapes.
These guys really dug playing but you never heard them talk about it. They would still regularly play at a little dive in LA or Hollywood…I think I remember hearing my uncle lost his old 62P bass in the Watts riots?

Anyway I just thought of it because Ernie is playing through a simple preamp and sounds great, just through my crappy iPhone.

I like what you did here. Instead of engaging with the old and endless analog versus digital argument, you just said, here's something on YouTube and it sounds great, even on my phone, and it does. I grew up listening to rock n' roll on crappy little transistor radios from Japan. A switch on mine was broken so I had to twist two wires together to turn it on. I still remember the first time I heard the Doors "Light My Fire" on it. It sounded amazing! It probably sounded terrible technically, but I could hear the music in it and the excitement, and that was what counted.

 

[Lone_Poor_Boy]

Kudos to all of you tracking over this and posting. I'll have to get setup to record and try one of these days.

 

[guitarsophist]

I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered

Did they confiscate all your Telecasters as evidence?

 

[klasaine]

Did they confiscate all your Telecasters as evidence?

They let me keep my Squier Bass VI.

 

[Alan L Cole]

Thanks Mike for another fine BT.
Done with the AO 60's LPB that is my current fave.

Respect and thanks to all who posted. I listened first this time and it may
have influenced my take, but it's hard for me to tell.

I loved the different takes as everyone has different phrasing to this.

There are some very seriously gifted musicians amongst us. (Not me)

Done with the new guitar. AO 60s. The Lake Placid Blue makes it sound better
than all of the takes I had with the Les Paul. I tried and so did Lester. He
could not do what that dang tele could, so he shamed himself into his case
to rise another day. Maybe.

Thanks for the listen.
Jeff

A pond pic of a beaver that visited us last spring.

Always great playing on your takes, Jeff. Nice!

 

[TwoBear]

I like what you did here. Instead of engaging with the old and endless analog versus digital argument, you just said, here's something on YouTube and it sounds great, even on my phone, and it does. I grew up listening to rock n' roll on crappy little transistor radios from Japan. A switch on mine was broken so I had to twist two wires together to turn it on. I still remember the first time I heard the Doors "Light My Fire" on it. It sounded amazing! It probably sounded terrible technically, but I could hear the music in it and the excitement, and that was what counted.

At 60 something whatever I am I can still remember back to my Mother visiting Some crazy house, it was dark and the music was really loud and sounded great it was Doors and Beatles songs.

When we would visit my aunt Esther, The only person allowed in my cousin Stevie’s room was my Mother, also the only person allowed to touch his Mackintosh amps, turn table and massive speakers.

She would crank up fire and rain by James Taylor, and a couple others.

At those volumes it not only sounded great it felt great. I don’t know if I experienced the “chills” but I definitely acquired that sensation later and still occasionally.

I had to have been influenced by my uncle Jerry, Later when I was living with them and he would bop around the house. I’d hear him humming out basslines, working on vocal harmonies… he was into everything in the low registers-singing bass parts playing the tuba and trombone I think back from the service and I think he doubled casually on those instruments still.

I’d find out later who is the hot guitar player that he had been talking about was Dwayne Allman, I guess he worked together on Bonnie n Delaney, ‘only you know and I know’ or whatever that song’s name is.

Then my first concert I went to Was Barney Kessel and my uncle was playing upright bass, The only time I really Heard him say anything about a coming up gig-I think he got his upright bass and had it set up with respect to his fingers-I love Barney Kessel’s playing but I had completely forgotten, my aunt reminded me recently that that’s where we went.

Then all on my own around second grade and back with my mother, as a latchkey kid I would race home and turn on the radio, I think Realistic brand hand me downs from one of my Aunts, And Stevie Wonder’s “I was made to love her” would come on sometime in the hour or two before my mom returned.

I had bongos and I couldn’t wait until that soloed Bass part of James Jamerson. I would really be bummed if I didn’t get to play along with it, the whole song really.

I’m on my phone and I’m afraid to look up at how much I have responded!

A couple grades later I would be at my grandmothers up in Palmdale where a plastic goldenrod colored Philco with white knobs would soothe away my evenings, songs by the Chi-Lites, gladys knight and great R&B and soul.

I blathered on and I haven’t even mentioned my father playing guitar and singing at his home with friends and always family functions… One memory of my parents happy together at a piano, And just the other night I spoke with my Aunt Vivian who is about 94 now in Canada… it’s the first I’m hearing about it but my Grandfather who my parents barely knew either of, loved piano and jazz and different voicings!

I’m just gonna push send I apologize for all this, I’m just in that mode I guess-I just reunited with someone after 30 something years! thank you and I apologize for my overindulgence.

 

[chris m.]

Hey, I finally got around to doing something with this fun track. It was fun to try to play searing leads over it, but in the end I wanted it to stay funky. Playing legato over it reduced the funkiness. Instead, it seemed like syncopated additional rhythmic hooks was the way to go. I added an arpeggiated synth track and then a fairly tight rhythm guitar track that had a couple of short hooks. Check it out--

Synth- Novation Peak 1 into Scarlett FocusRite into REAPER DAW.
Guitar-- Tele into GX100 into Scarlett FocusRite into REAPER DAW.

 

[TwoBear]

They let me keep my Squier Bass VI.

I had no idea those came out in squire model! Now I’m wondering what other low-cost alternatives might there be.

 

[TwoBear]

Hey, I finally got around to doing something with this fun track. It was fun to try to play searing leads over it, but in the end I wanted it to stay funky. Playing legato over it reduced the funkiness. Instead, it seemed like syncopated additional rhythmic hooks was the way to go. I added an arpeggiated synth track and then a fairly tight rhythm guitar track that had a couple of short hooks. Check it out--

Synth- Novation Peak 1 into Scarlett FocusRite into REAPER DAW.
Guitar-- Tele into GX100 into Scarlett FocusRite into REAPER DAW.

I like your approach getting away from the lead thing.
That was…I’m looking for a word…I think bubbly! Yeah cool, and I like how your parts are right up on it, no lagging, real energetic.

 

[klasaine]

I had no idea those came out in squire model! Now I’m wondering what other low-cost alternatives might there be.

They're pretty cool.
After a time I did change out the pickups (Novaks) and the bridge (Mastery). It sounds 'better' but not night and day better.