kennywtelejazz

Happy Birthday Steve AKA "The Legendary Strummy ! "

I heard a story about him once 😉

Strummy! was at  the hospital having some" Enis w a P " tests done .

Science has often compared his "Enis 's abilities to Einsteins Brain  ( whew what a whopper )  

While he was in the exam room recovering  he mumbled through his oxygen mask

" Nurse are my testicles  black ? "

The Nurse raises his gown , holds his "Enis " in one hand while she  holds  his testicles in the other .    She leans in ,  takes a close look , and says

"There is nothing wrong with them Sir "

Strummy! gently  takes  off his oxygen mask , smiles at her and says very slowly in a appreciative tone of voice

  " Thanks for that  , it was lovely  but listen too me very very  carefully  ....Are my test results back ? "

Kenny

On 5/30/2019 at 6:16 AM, InstrEd said:

What have I started 😮

🤣

As far as the gun thing goes,  in my case it's not a big deal ...The Truth is ,  I used it for a few  reasons ....

Clint's frustration in the pic I posted is close to how I feel sometimes when it comes to dealing with multiple DAW's

Over a period of time I went out and got 14 of what are considered to be within the top 20 DAW's that people still talk about and end up on The Music Radars yearly lists for PC & Mac

Aside from trying to learn an extra 10 DAW's with out much success,  I have gotten bombarded with a ton of upgrade deals I don't seem to have the money for ...

I can tell you this , at first this was all sweet and innocent . But man let me tell you ...at the time  I was OK w it,  then after a while it became  like having  14 different girl scout troops  knocking on my door every day  trying to sell me cookies.

That's how it started , then all the companies started getting real aggressive by switching tactics on me .

They stopped using the oh look how cute  girl scout tactic  , then they tried to strong arm me into spending my  money ....

Anyway , I blame CCLarry for that Last Part .....  I think he may be a double agent 🤣 just kidding Larry

Kenny

22 hours ago, Kenny Wilson said:

Honestly , I wont list all the DAW's I have currently or have used ..

I will say when I was buying them and going through the honeymoon phase ,  I thought I was having a good time  . 

Then I woke up one day and realized I was becoming a Jack Off All These DAW's and a Master of None ...

Now I keep it simple ..Cakewalk , Reaper , Mixbus .

 

  Alright , all you extra DAW's , I want you all to line up over by the front gate                  single file .

 Get Off My Lawn Now. You are clogging up my workflow .I ain't got the  time to read the manual .

Kenny

10 hours ago, InstrEd said:

Is that a MIDI Gun or are you just happy to see me😆

It is any type of gun you want it too be 😀 Are you Happy to see me ?

 Clint  move over ..It is time for some Gun Toting Girl Power

Kenny

Kenny

Honestly , I wont list all the DAW's I have currently or have used ..

I will say when I was buying them and going through the honeymoon phase ,  I thought I was having a good time  . 

Then I woke up one day and realized I was becoming a Jack Off All These DAW's and a Master of None ...

Now I keep it simple ..Cakewalk , Reaper , Mixbus .

  Alright , all you extra DAW's , I want you all to line up over by the front gate                  single file .

 Get Off My Lawn Now. You are clogging up my workflow .I ain't got the  time to read the manual .

Kenny

23 hours ago, Kenny Wilson said:

23 hours ago, Kenny Wilson said:

Woah ,  that LLama is sort of cute in a weird sort of way

I must confess , looking at it  seems to be  bringing out my Inner Kinky ....

All it needs now to seal the deal is a good set of Knee Pads  🤣

 

Kenny

 

17 hours ago, craigb said:

 

You really are a Vantucky Hillbilly, aren't you Kenny??! 😮

Oh Yeah, That's my kinda Hot Llama Mamma

🤣🤣🤣

Kenny

On 5/26/2019 at 8:52 PM, craigb said:

Woah ,  that LLama is sort of cute in a weird sort of way

I must confess , looking at it  seems to be  bringing out my Inner Kinky ....

All it needs now to seal the deal is a good set of Knee Pads  🤣

Kenny

Hey you sound good there Chuck . Yeah man I understand why you did all that ..

The whole effing world is trying to tell me all the time what to play , who to play like  and how to compress it ...LOL

I say , Sometimes you just got to play the guitar balls to the walls after  pulling  your balls out  and letting the world hear you still got a set ...

I hope when you were done recording your guitar playing   , you threw a large raw  steak into your guitar case as a reward to your guitar for delivering all those fret board scorching  guitar tones ...

all the best,

Kenny

This tune came out nice Freddy , I enjoyed listening to the song ..I did have to repeat a section here and there to catch some of the lyrics .

Yeah man concerning the songs message ...I'm right there .....ssshhhh don't tell any one ...lol

Actually saw something that blew my head today ...I was in the gym working out and I saw an older fella working out near me ...

I asked him how old he was and he told me he was 93 years old ...I was like WTF ...I thought he could have been 70 ...he got a kick out of my reaction ...

Yeah I want to be more like him in 30 years .....if I can make it

not what it is now for me  , a crusty ole dried up and bitter about every thing that happens in my life  including  the state of my rented lawn version of

kenny

Wow that song came out very nice .

This song reminds me of the type of music and songs I would listen to before I  got ridiculously into  the guitar player types of music  I wound up alienating myself with  .

Yeah man , if I could sing half  as good as you , I would put the guitar down and pen a Love Song  ..

Nice , very positive ...

Kenny

On 5/23/2019 at 6:40 AM, daryl1968 said:

Kenny - this is tasteful to the extreme. Sounds like you're making love to that guitar.

What a very nice thing to say Daryl ! thank you very much .

Kenny

          Mi nombre es El Viejo Grande  .

Yo soy  burro que se tira demasiado . Necesito tirarme un pedo ...

Discúlpeme dónde está el baño ?

signed ,

Pssssttt Este Loco

On 5/24/2019 at 6:36 PM, craigb said:

Collect the whole set!

And, of course, Yor Ol Pal himself!  (Hey, where IS he anyway???)

🤣       What a bunch of characters LOL ...is that you Craig on the far right ?

It looks like   you posted the only know   group shot photo of The Bag Brothers Band in existence ...

Yep , The members are all there and accounted for ..

On the top row from the left to right we have ....Doggie Bag , Gig Bag  , D***** Bag  , Hefty Bag  , Shopping Bag , Body Bag and Yor Ol Pal himself! 

Kenny

1 hour ago, Jesse Screed said:

I was so close.

She went lame on the loose shale.

Had to put her down, not easy with a penknife.

But there are vultures everywhere,

not even before Bernice had bled out

punk tries to sell me a wild ***** colt

I'm not much for donkeys

but the mouth bit seems to keep him in line

so I give punk a stale crust of bread and a dollar two eighty

punk laughs

me and the wild ***** colt limp along

towards the top

I sure do miss me. Bernice, she had a nice mustache.

 

 

 

Kenny

Please accept my apologies for  letting my thread tank while leaving   a few song forum contributors out in the  cold ...

I have always tried  to listen to someone else's tune first before I respond to posts left in my thread when I can ...this time around I just couldn't swing it .

I have been swamped w all my health care responsibilities .

better late than never ...

On 5/12/2019 at 11:49 AM, emeraldsoul said:

SOulful. Little Wing in a waltz. You play great, bro.

 

I like Little Wing a lot ...Haven't played it in a few years SO I may be decide  to record my version once I get the rust out .

I generally like to  play Little Wing  as a solo unaccompanied guitar  piece  .. when I played out it was a crowd favorite

Thank you for the song listen

On 5/13/2019 at 8:54 AM, Leadfoot said:

Not surprised.... I knew what I was gonna hear. Virtuosity, great phrasing, and heart. You're a great guitar player Kenny, and this is just another example. Sounded great man.

I'm glad you had an idea of what you were gonna hear ...I sure didn't know what I was gonna play or how it would come out sounding ....lol...

Thank you for the kind word Leadfoot , sorry  about your dad . I did give your song a few listens but I didn't get the chance to post .

Very inventive lyrics w the songs message and the actual playing and song arrangement was Killer ....

all the best,

Kenny

On 5/19/2019 at 10:32 AM, Craig Anderton said:

I'd also add it's not just about quantizing rhythm, but tempo. Tempo changes are crucial in helping a song breath. Check out this article for an analysis I did of tempo changes in a variety of songs, using CbB. The article also includes the "time traps" concept I wrote about in The Huge Book of Cakewalk by BandLab Tips, but applied to Studio One.

I also did a second article about "feel," and how to restore feel with timing shifts - it's basically an article about "un-quantizing" quantized parts.

Excellent   tutorials   

I have glanced at all 3  ...I'm in the process  of still absorbing the first article .....

I noticed in the first article the tempo graph seems to fluctuate somewhat like a LFO sine wave  ...after closer inspection  it became clear to me that the whole tempo fluctuation graph was in a general range of approximately  10 BPM 's  per song .

Those are very subtle tempo shifts ,  No doubt , they contributed greatly to the songs feel.

Each song has just enough natural tempo changes  to keep the listeners brain and ears   engaged  through the song play ... 

You write  super  helpful articles Craig ,

thank you for posting your work  here in this thread ,

Kenny

47 minutes ago, InstrEd said:

So my staff view shall be greased shortly🧐😏

🤣

Yeah just in time for New Years Eve 2312

Kenny

On 5/16/2019 at 1:06 PM, Kenny Wilson said:

Why not  turn some of the crappy drum loops we all  have on our hard drives into better sounding loops by learning how to tempo map a player of John Bohnam ' s caliber .

 

10 hours ago, Craig Anderton said:

I've written and lectured about this extensively. This is the basis for things like groove templates, but even something as simple as pushing the snare late by a few milliseconds gives more of a "Bonham"  feel. For dance music, I'll often push the high-hat ahead by just a little bit to lend urgency. 

Craig there is no doubt in my mind that you have written and lectured about this sort of topic extensively ..

I think  i  need to study harder .

thank you for taking the time to respond .

Kenny

As far as I'm concerned John Bohnam is and was a One in Ten Million drummer .

Yeah,  I get how quantize can drain  the life out of  feel ...What about the opposite .

Why not  turn some of the crappy drum loops we all  have on our hard drives into better sounding loops by learning how to tempo map a player of John Bohnam ' s caliber .

BTW , I do understand that music has changed drastically   in the past 19 / 20 years .  Still if somebody wants to go old school and keep the feel of the groove , what is stopping them ?

Kenny

For those of us  here that want to do their own experiments on what was mentioned in the first video ...

here are some MP3 examples of John Bonham's drums only

http://www.saladrecords.com/bonhamfiles.htm

I was lucky enough to see Led Zeppelin 3 times at Madison Square Garden in the 70's , John Bonham brought down the house w his drum solo's , for a large segment of the drums solo he didn't even use  sticks .

I  also saw Bonham's son a few times w Robert Plant . 

Great Players .

For me the real find in this thread was the video interview of Carol Kaye .  She still got it . It was nice to hear her just kick it and tell her story

In the section where she talked about using the metronome  you have to watch and listen closely to understand the benefit of what she was saying  , 

Her implied message was to play off the 2 and the 4 of the beats . If you listen closely you will hear her count in ...and once she is there she is using the metronome to define not only timing  for her playing , but a level of swing feel ....that is possible when you only play off the 2 and 4

Using her approach  the 1 and the 3 are  silent and the player is hearing those beats inside their heads .

Playing  off the 2 and the 4 of the metronome requires a lot more skill because  it is easy to get lost and one may loose their place until they become more familiar with the concept .

This happens because the player must feel the 1 and 3 w out hearing it . The tempo of the song moves along at the same pace even though  to pull off the correct tempo and feel means the songs tempo is halved using this approach  ...

A silent 1 , heard 2 , silent  3 , and heard 4  beat style of  metronome use means that a BPM of  60 = 120 BPM when one  used to using the metronome as per standard use ....

It might not sound like much but when the tempo is halved like that small changes can speed up or slow down dramatically into tempos a player may need to practice and spend more time  at . ( first hand assessment lol )

Essentially I have looked at this approach as  a drum track w just the snare hits ....

Both Ed Cherry and Emily Remler have tried to hip me  this years ago ...did I listen ?  ....no ...lol... better late than never ...

The true beauty behind this approach is w a little practice a player can develop a much more swinging approach to what ever it is they choose to play .

When I say Swing I am talking about The Freedom of Unlimited Interesting to play and hear  Hip Phrasing ...

I think of it this way , When I play off the metronome using the whole 1, 2, 3 , 4 , beat approach to 4/4 I might as well try to join The High School Marching Band because that what it sounds like to me and to others ...

Like it or not , my music and playing  will  be swinging  like a rusty gate ... lol

Using the silent 1 , heard 2 , silent 3, heard 4  metronome approach takes a fair amount of practice

( honestly some days I'm hit or miss on it , yet I still carry on )

I just came back and edited this because in Cakewalk the metronome preferences have adjustments for the first beat and then the other 3 beats combined ...It is possible to make the first beat silent , yet it is not possible to change the 2, 3, 4 beats they will sound ..

An easy thing to do would be to record the metronome , then edit beat 1 and 3 out of it and create a groove clip to save .

For fast and dirty , a practice thing I like to do  often is to just pull up a drum VST  , load a basic beat up with a hard hitting snare on the 2 and the  4  beats and then just  solo the snare . It is  simple and easy  enough to go there using that approach ...

all the best,

Kenny

On 5/7/2019 at 8:11 AM, garybrun said:

Well you certainly have got the feeling in those fingers.
Well done.

Thank you for the listen and favorable comment

On 5/7/2019 at 10:11 AM, kakku said:

Great job. You got soul 

Glad you enjoyed .

On 5/7/2019 at 12:06 PM, Johnbee58 said:

This is nice.  Very relaxing an soulful. Contemplative.

🙂John B.

Very kind of you to say that . Thank you .

On 5/8/2019 at 1:10 AM, Bob Oister said:

Hey, Kenny,

Absolutely beautiful playing, as always from you, and tasty melodies combined with gorgeous tone!😀

I really love the crisp clean tone at the beginning, and then how the subtle change to the slightly cranked up edgy tone at around 2:11 provides really nice contrast and shows off the fluidity in your excellent playing.

Dynamite stuff, Kenny, it's always great to hear a new post from you on the forum, buddy!👍

Have a good one!
Bob

Thank you Bob for the kind words . I really appreciate reading them .

On 5/8/2019 at 11:27 AM, ABull said:

Tone, chops, depth of feeling...anything I forgot?   

~Allan

 

Alan, thank you for what you said . I was happy to see it .

On 5/10/2019 at 6:45 AM, thegaltieribrothers said:

Hi Kenny,

Great playing, real style and sensitivity.

Thanks for sharing.

Good Job!

regards

paul

Paul , it was my pleasure to  share my most recent  playing here . I'm glad you enjoyed the way I played my guitar on this tune . it means a lot .

all the best ,

Kenny

Kenny

Hi Lynn ,

Wow, deep song on a lot of levels .

I love the line " the older I get the less I become less of the parts of my sum "

Love the change up arrangement wise you did at 1:38  ...what do we have here ?

A Reggae style guitar part mixed in w a Cuban style groove done in an old Western spaghetti style sound canvas ...OMG Love it ..

I liked your song a lot Lynn . Everything about it is very good . The songs message , the vocals , instruments and mix ....

Great  job ,

Kenny

Hi kakku ,

I listened to your most recent version.

In away , at least to my ears ,your tune has a retro sound in places that remind me of the band called Mountain .

I happen to Love Mountain ( still listen to them )  In your song the guitar parts have the type of crunch and way of playing chords that reminds me of the phrasing Leslie West would play when he played power chords.

Your song seems to be coming along nicely . my suggestion would be , play around w the arrangement ...flesh it out some

all the best,

Kenny

Hi John,

Very interesting song on a lot of fronts . I enjoyed the modal piano part up against the S Dan bass style part .

Gave your tune a nice rhythmic  bounce ..

As the song develops you go into some very complex chordal and song arrangements featuring  instrument change ups horns and nice sub motifs that play off each other  .

Good stuff there . Seems you stand apart in that area ...must have taken a lot of time to get that right

I got your songs vocal message VIA listening and then reading your lyrics . Since I am a non vocalist ...can't say much about whats happening there ...

Overall you seem to have a quirky bone here and there in your musical bone structure ...

BTW that is a complement in my book  ....

A little  over 10 years ago ..I used to joke around w a few forum members on the old songs  forum

It seems a number of my tunes had their own thing going on and they  didn't fit into a box

Because of that ,   I used to call myself Captain Quirk  ..

all the best,

Kenny