Name: Keep Calm And Groove by Mats Nermark
Duration: 4 min 3 s
Description: I never know where the idea for a tune will come from. In this case it was from a former school friend who is now an art teacher. She painted a painting saying "keep calm and be groovy". I realized that these words very much described how funk music is when it's at its best. So I just adapted the words for the song title and wrote this. So thanks to Jill St. George for the inspiration.

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I was having fun with programming sounds for AmpliTube 5 and came up with a clean sound that reminded me of the great clean sound that was used by the studio session players from the 80s and 90s. Players like Michael Landau, Steve Lukather, Dann Huff, Bruce Gaitch and Steve Farris to name a few.
While finalizing the sound I came up with the initial riff of this tune and the rest flowed from that. It felt like I was painting a soundscape with a guitar colors.
All the sounds in this tune (except for drums/persussion) were made with AmpliTube 5. Great amp plugin!

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