"Shaft" like demo

[Damon]

For anyone who digs the music of Shaft, here\'s a little demo I did with the influence of Issac Hayes. It\'s called \'Bad Mutha.\'
Hope ya dig it http://www.northernsounds.com/ubb/NonCGI/images/icons/wink.gif
http://damonbbradley.tripod.com/damonbradley/ (\"http://damonbbradley.tripod.com/damonbradley/\")

[zquarles]

He\'s one bad-
*SHUT YO\' MOUTH!*
Just talkin\' \'bout Damon.
http://www.northernsounds.com/ubb/NonCGI/images/icons/smile.gif

[This message has been edited by zquarles (edited 03-16-2002).]

[Damon]

LOL Z! http://www.northernsounds.com/ubb/NonCGI/images/icons/wink.gif

[MrArkadine]

Yo Damon,

Bad Mutha skipped town. Where\'s the song?

Looking forward to listening to the grovadelic vibes dude... http://www.northernsounds.com/ubb/NonCGI/images/icons/smile.gif

[Damon]

Hey MrArkadine,
I took it off, but now it\'s back up http://www.northernsounds.com/ubb/NonCGI/images/icons/wink.gif. Thanks for wanting to listen.
It\'s at the bottom of my webpage. http://damonbbradley.tripod.com/damonbradley/ (\"http://damonbbradley.tripod.com/damonbradley/\")

[Maarten Spruijt]

Cool Damon. Really styleful...

Can I make one small point?

0:16 and on > the 16th snare+bass+etc. hits sound too fast to me. They should be played laid back, and not faster than the actual 16ths they probably are. They sound like 2 triplet 16ths now. I think you should try and make them sound a little more \"relaxed\", laid back.

Keep up the groovy stuff! http://www.northernsounds.com/ubb/NonCGI/images/icons/smile.gif

Maarten

[Damon]

Thanks for the replies and input guys http://www.northernsounds.com/ubb/NonCGI/images/icons/smile.gif. Actually I did this piece as a joke for King. I really didnt tweak it to much at all. All of the hits were done without quantization and I agree they could be more relaxed.
I agree the sax is kind of weak. I would definitely use a real player if I ever did a piece like this since I know a few in town.
MrArkadine, I used Ultimate Strings mf layer slow Violins for the strings. Xsample rhodes, custom drum kit, sonic implants fender strat touchwah, xsample sax.
Thanks again for listening!

[Francis Belardino]

Sweet! I like US Strings as well. Good stuff, man.

[Damon]

I also used GOS full strings marcato for the hits.
US violins was just used in the intro.

[ChrisAxia]

Hi Damon,

Long time no talk! Sorry, I\'ve been really busy, and I also switched ISP\'s. I\'ve got broadband now which is amazing, and I can listen to much more of the talents posting on this forum! My old e-mail address is now useless. Use Axiamusic@yahoo.com if you need to mail me.

Anyway, really nice piece, although a little short, but the one thing that always ruins a good piece like this (for me ,that is) is unconvincing sampled sax. Please get your sax player down for the day to do the rest of the track justice!!

I think it is just so difficult to get a sampled sax to sound good on a track like this, and it unfortunately cheapens the rest of the track, which I think sounds excellent.

I hope my comments are not too offensive. They are meant to be constructive.

Regards,

Chris

[MrArkadine]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size=\"1\" face=\"Verdana, Arial\">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by MrArkadine:
Yo Damon,

Bad Mutha skipped town. Where\'s the song?

Looking forward to listening to the grovadelic vibes dude... http://www.northernsounds.com/ubb/NonCGI/images/icons/smile.gif<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Damon,

I listened to it a couple times, and I must say that your song is way classier than Shaft\'s theme. It has that sexy, groovy, adventurous feeling of the 70\'s http://www.northernsounds.com/ubb/NonCGI/images/icons/wink.gifdown just right, without getting too wild.

Is that GOS strings at the beginning, or a loop? I\'m asking because those kind of strings were used all the time in the 70\'s, and if so, you replicated them perfectly with GOS.

The wind instrument that comes next was used a lot too (I\'m not familiar yet with all the wind instruments in the orchestra, so I don\'t know exactly what it is). The first part of its phrase sounds good, but the rest sounds a little sampled (Like Bruce says, a wind controller would be invaluable here), but still good.

The next synth sound with the heavy low frequency vibrato (Is that what it is?Forgive me if it isn\'t, I just am not too experienced). Is really cool, and very 70\'s too. BTW, what sound is that? Any synthesizer in particular, or a loop library? LMK, because it sounds very neat.

Don\'t take Bad Mutha down dude, he deserves to stay in your page. First time I hear a 70\'s grove type mockup with GigaStudio, and you just nailed it, congratulations! http://www.northernsounds.com/ubb/NonCGI/images/icons/smile.gif

Thanks for sharing, and keep\'em coming!