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? 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

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

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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

Oh Yeah, That's my kinda Hot Llama Mamma ??? Kenny

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

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

? 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

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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 ... 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 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

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

? Yeah just in time for New Years Eve 2312 Kenny

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

Thank you for the listen and favorable comment Glad you enjoyed . Very kind of you to say that . Thank you . Thank you Bob for the kind words . I really appreciate reading them . Alan, thank you for what you said . I was happy to see it . 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

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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

Hi bjornpdx , I enjoyed what you did here w your song overlay over the dialog. Your interpretation of Sci Fi tones are very good . I must confess , I'm not sure if I have seen the movie or not . Now that I have heard your clip Plan 9 , I think I want too. I love messing around with those type of sounds myself . Truthfully , I can't say I have done anything as developed as what you have done here . I have been messing around with these samples lately ...all the free ones that come in the free packs are very good for the type of sounds you were going for ... IMHO , at least in my case the free bundles were worth the time and effort . YMMV Lots of warp drive motion and alien sounds can be found here .... https://glitchmachines.com/ all the best , Kenny