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Method Of Modern Love - Daryl Hall & John Oates

Wild Thing - Jimi Hendrix style

You Better You Bet - The Who

Jackson - Johnny Cash & June Carter

Sledgehammer - Peter Gabriel

Back in the days when phones were hooked to poles with wires, the squirrels put me out of service more than once. It seems they like phone cables too. Notes ♫

A twist on a very old skit

City of Tiny Lites - Frank Zappa .

"You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To" - A nice take on the old Cole Porter song by the great guitarist Jim Hall

Summer Samba (Samba de Verao) aka So Nice - Eliane Elias (originally recorded by Walter Wanderly, but I like this version better)

Money (That's What I Want) - Barrett Strong (The original version)

Madman Across The Water - Elton John I love the string solo in the middle. IMO one of the best violin solos in Rock history.

One good thing about doing aftermarket projects like 'fake e-disks' for Band-in-a-Box is discovering new music and new musicians. Here is Beverly "Guitar" Watkins. Born in 1939, this old gal definitely isn't new, but she can still play the guitar. The second video is when she was younger and much more capable. Before yesterday, I never knew about Beverly "Guitar" Watkins. Now I do. Notes ♫

That's the problem with software synths. My 1987I Roland MT32 is still working. When I bought it, Mac used Motorola CPUs and Windows 3.1 was their current OS. My Yamaha TX81z is still working, and it also dates from 1987. Both of these have some cheesy sounds by today's standards, but they also have some excellent sounds that have never been duplicated. Software synths may be less expensive up front, but as computers evolve, they go extinct, and you have to buy again, and again, and again. In the long run, the hardware synths are not as expensive as the software offerings. Hardware synths made in the 1980s still work today. Plus, I can mix them with my newer synths, picking the best sound for each part from my array of synth modules. Not much software from the 1980s still works today. Notes ♫

Couldn't see Strummy's video (Video Unavailable). I don't know what it is, so I'll play off Joad's offering. Femme Fatale - The Velvet Underground

I write the old-fashioned pure MIDI styles for Band-in-a-Box because there are only a couple of occasions where they play wrong notes, and then they aren't wrong per se, just added where they don't belong. That is, if you create the style properly. Examples for a C chord (and others if you change the root) 1) You are to enter C5 it's supposed to play what people call a power chord. I don't use "power chord" because a chord need 3 notes. Instead, it's a root-fifth interval, C and G for a C5 chord. But BiaB will add the 3rd, inserting an E 2) If you add a Cdim you get a Cdim7 adding the A to the Cdim chord. With good MIDI synthesizers, you can get 95% of the sound of the real instrument, without the wrong notes and you won't need mega-gigabytes of real tracks on your HD. Listen to the unedited hi-def samples here: http://www.nortonmusic.com/styledemo.html They were done with a mediocre synth, the General MIDI band of a Ketron SD2 synth module. I have better synth modules, but I wanted to use a low-mid-priced module so as not to disappoint my customers. Notes ♫