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Here's a little tune I put together over the last couple of weeks. It's aimed at a medium school level (which has been a bit of a challenge for me!). It's also loosely based on an old dixieland tune that some may recognise.

As Davdud101 can sympathise with, the recording has relied on very limited resources.

I used live drums, 1 sax player (plus a couple of midi notes in the bari sax), 1 trumpet player (playing 4 tpt parts, and 2 bone parts on flug), and a bone player on parts 1&4.

Any piano notes were extracted from sibelius, and the bass line was very painful! I entered the various sections chord changes into i real book, and then played the progression back through my recording interface. Mostly did ok except where I needed exact notes played at the beginning and end mostly. Would've been nice having the 2 feel as intended in the sax/tpt section, but you get what you pay for!

And..... I was the sound engineer so please excuse the recording. It's really for demo purposes so I think it's ok for that. The more I listen to it however I think I should get back in and tweak the eq's a bit.

Hope it's ok for a few mins entertainment.

http://pigletmusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Dang.mp3

Rob
http://pigletmusic.com

I like it!

Quote from: gregs70 on Nov 19, 2017, 06:50PMI like it!

Thanks Gregs70!

Sounds AWESOME, Rob!!! 
The arrangement is great (definitely the type of thing I need to be aiming for this coming year). The recording is actually surprisingly nice quality in my opinion, listening on cheap-ish 3in studio monitors - and excellent playing to boot.
Definitely had me saying "dang" all throughout!

Thanks davdud. Nice having other arrangers/composers bouncing off. In meantime I'm a few weeks out of the music world on a road trip with young famuly in a motor home. No computer games and theyve been reading, drawing, playing games and talking!
And speaking of talking points, I'm by the ocean sipping on a speyside whisky (Macallan 12 yo). Other whisky lovers??

Nice...Though it would have been nice to put some really instrument specific lick on tbones and trumpets.

Nice...Though it would have been nice to put some really instrument specific lick on tbones and trumpets.