Riding the ride

Riding the ride

This is the continuation of this and this post after yet some more month of practice.

All tracks are real-time compositions (i.e. musical improvisation) played in 2024 at my home studio. It’s just me, and all you hear is played live with no overdups (here is a video where you can see how this works; note that I play the drums with my feet and the bass with my left hand).

See this post for more information about the recording technique and the instruments in use.

In this recording I’m back again at the piano, and I focus on playing the ride cymbal properly with my right foot.

Here is the music (License: Creative Commons by-nc-sa):

Fretless bass, Yamaha drum set, grand piano + pad:

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Slap bass, Yamaha drum set, rhodes piano + pad:

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Fretless bass, Yamaha drum set, rhodes piano + pad, distortion guitar:

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Rock bass, blues drum set, hammond B3, blues guitar:

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Here I’m using my new Waterfall B3 plugin for the first time, which is the best Hammond simulation I ever came across: 2024-11-27/4 2024-11-27/5 2024-11-27/7

Slap bass, blues drum set, hammond B3:

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Fretless bass, Yamaha drum set, Fender Rhodes Mark I:

This is the first time I use my new and excellent Rhodes Anthology plugin; I was using the Mark I simulation with custom parameters and just played, thus the result is a bit longer than usual: 2024-12-02

Slap bass, Yamaha drum set, Fender Rhodes Mark I:

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Upright bass, Yamaha drum set, Fender Rhodes Mark I:

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