Quote: colab
I’d like to see more comment though on “how I did it” - e.g., where did the backing track come from, etc.
Hi colab….first up, nice to meet you. Thank you for the comments…really helps the old ego…lol…and it definitely needed that at the moment ;)

I’d not noticed the ‘how I did it’ feature until your comment, but i do walk around with blinkers on…lol. For anyone interested I actually only play keyboard and that is self-taught…so often i don’t know what i’m doing as much as simply doing things that sound okay to me. This track was originally a jazz track that i was working on called ‘bang bang’…all the elements in the track are broken down two-bar and four bar samples (and even with my own keyboard i convert the playing to samples in acid so that i can use them over and over again with different keys and tempos rather than replaying)…I don’t really know what else to add as i’m not a musician like most of you excellent guys/gals in here. I actually did nothing to the vocal other than extend it a little…and the mastering (which i think is wrong and one of my constant struggles) is all achieved virtually by chaining a stereo imager/beatmodel optiEQ/C4 compressor/waves rennaissance compressor and finalised with the L3 multimaximizer.

I hope i answered a couple of your question and thank you for taking the time to listen and comment ;)

Hi MC Jack…nice to meet you as well. Thanks for taking the time to listen and comment m8. I’m really chuffed that people are generally enjoying it…i’m still a little unconvinced by bits BUT i guess that’s the lot of the producer…lol ;)

Hi TheJoe…another new person to me and i’m glad to meet ya ;)

Hopefully answered a couple of your questions in my reply to colab. thanks for taking the time…i’m also really pleased you got the kind of vibe i was going for…i really liked the idea that they actually rapped freestyle during a jam session. Anyone that actually knows me in the real world in the UK knows that i work with young people in a youth club environment and most of the best stuff they ever do is done freestyle when they feel rather than over analyse and try…hope that made sense…lol ;)

hi Jonas,
nice to meet you m8…I’ll see if i can upload it…i’m still a bit naive when it comes to the netiquette of the site so i’m not sure if i’d be permitted another track on top of the three i already have up ;)

hi m8…i’m gonna try and do that…people have to kind of bear with me but i’ll get there eventually…lol ;)

ps - i can actually imagine the instrumental with some oldDog treatment ;)

awwww man you made me blush…lol…thank you soo much for taking time to listen, enjoy and comment ;)