How I Did It
Sally's Coming Homeby Admiral Bob
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Tools I Used
Garageband on Mac, M-Audio audio interface (for guitar and bass direct), Gibson Les Paul, Fender P-Bass, Akai drum pad.
Samples I Used
Carosone had a sample called Sally Burgess that backed a radiotimes vocal. I was intrigued by the... not fusion of Jazz and rock, but the alternating between them. So I brought down the keyboard and bass part.
Original Samples
The drum part, which I wanted to jazz up to the same level that the bass and keys had going on, two comping guitar parts, a guitar solo part, and I took over the bass on the last third of the song.
Process
I quantized the keyboard and bass parts. If I was going to lock into a jazzy groove they had to be tight and metrical to the drums I was creating. This zapped some of the keyboard energy, but I wanted a fat sound anyway, so I put a rotary speaker on it to make that sound a bit more deliberate (which I wanted all the same.)
I added the comping guitar bits just to the rock part of the groove. The solo guitar was added solely to the jazzy bit. I thought of adding a rock guitar lead to the rock section but that would have been overkill.
The quantized bass just wasn't cutting it for the last third, so I played a new groove that really locked into the drums and comping, and put both the original bass and mine through a 60s combo amp emulator, so tonally they sound the same.
Other Notes
Always happy to make a bit of jazz happen.
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