Name: State Of Mind Blues by learningtoplay
Duration: 5 min 9 s
Description: This one's for Ray and Jimmy and the boys from the Dark Water Band. Thanks for the music and the positivity! : )

wonderful transition from  acoustic to distorted ⚡

That's great - draws you in then get's quite intense.

Sounds really nice, great production Learningtoplay

@user-138663860: Thanks so much for the listen and kind comments, as ever, Sunnidayz. The riff is actually played on a ukelele and then put through a GB filter : )

@user-138663860: Really glad you enjoyed it. Hope your week is going well, too : )

Wow! Very different. Love the energy. 👏👍

Here's a shuffle blues/rock jam and joining me on this track are two killer musicians: Jamie Rhind, who goes off on his Hammond Organ for his grooving scorching solos and Jeff Volkman, who adds so many layers and dynamics with his funky bass/synth basses. Check these guys out!
Jamie Rhind - Hammond Organ https://soundcloud.com/jamie-rhind
Jeff Volkman - Bass and Synth Bass https://soundcloud.com/jeffvolkman
Louis Taverna - Guitars, Drum Programming, Backing Organs, Pianos, Horns and Additional Bass Guitar
Strut It was written by Louis Taverna © 2022

Strut It - Featuring Jamie Rhind and Jeff Volkman

Days

The World Is In Danger

After taking a hiatus I'd like to turn your attention to this latest upload of mine, featuring samples of the oud, a stringed instrument common to the Middle East. Please bear in mind that I didn't play the oud; sadly, I am not such a virtuoso. However, I am getting quite experienced in choosing samples that fit my jam sessions, and using this exotic instrument yielded quite enthralling results in my humble opinion.

In this particular session I was experimenting with G minor, which took me outside of my usual comfort zone of C minor. As so often the case, I used a combination of Eurorack modules, the Arturia MircroBrute, and some pre-prepared drum and drone pad samples. These sounds were looped on the Boss RC-300 loop station. 

After setting up the sound frame using Eurorack and the Arturia MicroBrute, I played back a couple of Youtube videos together with my sounds; something that I have been practicing for a quite a while now. At the end I settled for following two videos:
- G minor oud Improvisation (https://youtu.be/vIBjXLFv1vE)
- Emotional Gm (G minor) CHORD - Ambient Backing Track #13 (https://youtu.be/PLqvVSGuRlI)

The jam session was recorded in Audacity. In post-production I used the best parts from the jam session to create this track. As I already expected, I had some trouble with playing back the oud sounds in such a manner that they fit the track and especially its tempo. So I had to heavily edit these samples in post production and put them back together with my sounds in order for them to sound as desired. While doing so, I also employed some reverb, high pass filters and a limiter within Audacity, albeit very sparingly. Other than that, no elaborate effects or mastering techniques were used, you basically listening to a short and condensed version of the jam session.

As always, the result is highly dynamic, so headphones are recommended. Also, please turn up that volume knob because Loudness War is for losers!

MAB logo by @maxim-lichtenwald, check him out!

I hope you enjoy!

Oud Dub [Jam session sections: RAW2022 - 2]

Geradeaus

Slowly Now

This one's for Ray and Jimmy and the boys from the Dark Water Band. Thanks for the music and the positivity! : )

State Of Mind Blues

Aimlessly Wandering

Video: https://youtu.be/yiI5mxz7t-k
Die Schimmi Schwingers:
Die Karl Grass Companie hat dabei den Chor gesungen
Maya Demarle die zweite Stimme 
und 2 TänzerInnen die uns den Schimmi Schwung dazu gelernt haben
Lyrics in English:
In spring I put the seeds in the ground 
In summer I watch them grow bigger and bigger.

Refrain: 
I don't have any money in the bag 
But the earth gives me a good feeling

And then I immediately feel like a Rasta
The head in the grass and without Zasta

Jah love i sing like a Rasta 
Jah love is more beautiful than the Zasta
- 
In autumn I harvest the fruits of my effort. 
In winter I feast on the taste of the flowers

Refrain: 

A friend knows a place where there are many mushrooms. 
We chunk of a few and we're already home

Refrain:

The trees and the flowers guide us by the hand
An ant introduces us to an earthworm

Refrain: 2x

Die Schimmischwingers - Im Frühling steck i die Samen in die Erdn (Remastered)

Project 3

Eigenheimer

The Still Air

Much of my music is FREE TO DOWNLOAD.
Love this space, wherever it is, and the amazing sounds of humanity. Happy to mix my music with yours, if you have an idea or no idea : ) -- if you would like to remix, remake, redeem any part of anything here, let me know.   ~ 

These are the wonderful musicians I've been lucky enough to work with so far on SC:

MOON DUST - https://soundcloud.com/petri-kiviniemi
Oorlab - https://soundcloud.com/oorlab
Kamikami - https://soundcloud.com/kamikami-sc
Spökpappa (The Ghostfather)- @user-805491886
Cycle of Hands - https://soundcloud.com/cycleofhands
Wane of Summer - https://soundcloud.com/wane-of-summer/tracks
Ami Dreamer - https://soundcloud.com/ami_dreamer
Bonetender - https://soundcloud.com/bonetender
Shrowd ($ad)- https://soundcloud.com/avercoffee
Terry Wigmore - https://soundcloud.com/user-536194718
JBeAt {to my own drum} - https://soundcloud.com/jbeattomyowndrumindiepop
joerxworx - https://soundcloud.com/joerxworx
Koma Gaeshi - https://soundcloud.com/koma-gaeshi
letterfounder - https://letterfounder.bandcamp.com
Dean Massicotte - https://soundcloud.com/deanmassicotte
..dusboblaze.. - https://soundcloud.com/user-430072946
Don't kill butterflies - https://soundcloud.com/dontkillbutterflies
Arma Ignifera - https://soundcloud.com/herronsound
Nicholas Ridiculous - https://soundcloud.com/nickrdavies
Rhiannon's Liquid Soul - https://soundcloud.com/bre-cabin
MingMonk - https://soundcloud.com/mingmonk
ŞöļäçėŠțřëęț - @solacestreet

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