kzarider:
Agree! I just put a melodica on it and I am waiting to see how the guitar works in track. I love to cut live w/real people but this has been fun too
I love your choice of words and with your permission I would like to quote that if I release this as a received comment!!! Thanks so much!
MFox:
What really struck me in this piece if how perfect the piano is, full of expression and color, and timing is perfect. Do you do a lot of editing to achieve this, or are you a natural perfect player? I always find when I do piano parts I need to do a of of MIDI editing to get the timing correct especially in a slower song. Your piano playing sounds natural, effortless and flowing. I admire that. Michael.
Wow that statement is great for the heart! I do very little editing ever on my piano, Piano and Organ are my instruments and I grew up in a time when you didn’t have the opportunity to fix anything - straight to tape. If you wanted an edit in song you sliced the 2" and only the very best engineer did this well. So I still think like that. I do sometimes edit Synth parts and always edit bass parts if I use Trillian or Vienna Instruments Upright.
Michael your statement about editing in slower song is very true as playing slower is so much more difficult than playing fast. I learned from a drummer that lives in Atlanta and would play whole note then 1/2 etc at 40 50bpm for hours when we were on road. What a groove he has just by playing everything as slowly as possible, never forgot how difficult that is to do.
BTW the piano sound I have worked on for a long time and I am finally (temporarily) happy w/it
Kenny
Hey Kenny, I remember those days of splicing 2" tape also. The double Studer drives, outboard gear etc.
The Slowwww beat is harder to achieve only if you’re not in the groove. More time elapses between beats and not everyone has the musical patience to actually wait for that next beat to naturally fall. The counters feel that more than the groovers. Groove on my friend!