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Posted by: Andrew Cockburn May 8 2007, 10:19 PM

Well, my fellow GMCers, I've been living a lie ... for many years I have been playing rock like a good guitarist, but every so often I would hear some Jazz playing, and feel a strange attraction. I knew that any decent metal player would think I was wierd and twisted, so I kept it hidden ... one day about 3 months ago, I couldn't stand it any more, and I had to express myself, so I wrote and recorded this song, a kind of BossaNova/Jazz piece. I felt ashamed and hid it from all of you for fear of what you all as true metal and rock fans would say ...

But today, we got a Jazz instructor, and I now feel its time to end the secrecy and expose my inner jazziness, so here it is - Remembering Amanda



Its a little self indulgent at 6 minutes long but I was aiming for a cross between George Benson and Carlos Santanna - hope some of you enjoy it !

Posted by: benhowell May 8 2007, 10:41 PM

Hey Andrew. I like it buddy. Its got a chilled vibe to it, very santana es-que! Keep up the good work, i like the recording quality as well

Ben

Posted by: jete124 May 8 2007, 10:48 PM

Very well done, and it has a nice vibe to it.

Posted by: Ryan May 9 2007, 02:05 AM

very nice andrew very good job , and dont be scared to post different things, thats whats so nice about gmc, we can have all different styles of play

Posted by: Gaelan May 9 2007, 03:07 AM

HOORAH!

Maaaannn, this is just what I needed to hear after a wound up day at work. Now I am all mellowed out, feeling good and wanting to learn!

Love the groove. I'm all beeboppin around now


absatively posolutely fantabulous! **grins**


G.

Posted by: Andrew Cockburn May 9 2007, 03:24 AM

Thanks guys, I appeciate your kind words - my jazziness is here to stay - I'm already working on my next jazzy number

Still practicing sweeps and alt picking though ...

Posted by: Layzer May 9 2007, 09:02 AM

ahh..love it, i was in jazz band way back in middle school and it made me appreciate most jazz. love your tone too! Specs on guitar and amp\recording?


EDIT: wow your specs are right under your posts woops!

Posted by: Robin May 9 2007, 09:40 AM

This is AMAZING! Did you make/record all this by yourself? This was really, really good.
And if any metal fans think its stupid to play jazz just tell them to go fu*k themselfs

I'm not really that into jazz, I listen alot to Coltrane though, I love him. But I have always thought jazz was cool. Atm I got so many new bands to check out so the jazz will have to wait

Posted by: MickeM May 9 2007, 10:08 AM

Out of the closet, a Jazz dude

Very good Andrew!! I'm also impressed with your perfectly clean and balanced recordings, no disturbing buzz or hum. Have you got a studio or an isolated room or is it that your Line6 Pod has a good noicegate?

Posted by: Andrew Cockburn May 9 2007, 12:51 PM

Yeah, I used my variax on one of the semi-acoustic models to get that tone - glad you liked it!



Thanks! Yeah, put it all together with Cubase and a load of plugin instruments ... played the lead and rythm guitar of course



Hi MikeM - one great thing about the Variax Guitar is that it has Piezo pickups, so it never picks up any hum at all. When I record my strat, yes I use the Pod Noise Gate. Pluse it helps that there was little gain on the clean sounds I used here.

Posted by: J.E.M May 9 2007, 02:39 PM

Very nice Andrew!

Good recording and clean sound,had to shake my body little while listening

Posted by: Pavel May 9 2007, 04:48 PM

I just listened to your jazzy thing Andrew - it was great - totally relaxed me! Nice job m8! You also have nice sound there!!

Posted by: Kristofer Dahl May 10 2007, 08:06 AM

Quality stuff - hope see more of it!

Posted by: mattacuk May 10 2007, 08:16 AM

I feel like getting up and doing my Salsa dance too this Ive said to much.

Great Job Andrew, I will listen to this alot !!!

Posted by: preownedguitar May 10 2007, 08:55 AM

Sounds great!

Posted by: andrei.sz May 10 2007, 09:34 AM

heyy !!!
great song man.
i alsow did a jazzy song a couple of days now, but i'm not,yet, able to put it together with the drums and stuff, 'cause i'm working on it with fruity loops, and i don't have to much samples...so it's a litle hard.

any way great jazzy song Andrew

Cheers.

Posted by: ezravdb May 10 2007, 03:25 PM

wow well doen andrew!
im impressed!
I hope I'll have the time/money to buy cubase and a effectporcessor

Posted by: Andrew Cockburn May 12 2007, 01:04 AM

Thanks for all the kind comments - we are a very eclectic bunch I think !

Posted by: Kaneda May 12 2007, 01:22 AM

Great song, Andrew Classy, really swinging quality to it - it really is hard to keep still while listening. Maybe I should consider a Variax to supplement the classic electrics, since I already have the PodXT Live. You get a great, cool sound out of that one

And finally I got that "America" tune out of my head

Posted by: Andrew Cockburn May 12 2007, 03:20 AM

Glad you liked it - maybe I should rename it "Rememberig America"

Posted by: browq May 12 2007, 12:29 PM

Really impressed!

great song. Well you nailed it if you wanted to go for a santana ish song. are you by any chance spanisch and where a hat?

loved it

Posted by: Andrew Cockburn May 12 2007, 01:53 PM

Heh, no, but I'll bear that in mind next time I play a gig

Glad you enjoyed it!