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GMC Forum _ Cosmin Lupu _ James Brown Four On The Floor Collab
Posted by: Cosmin Lupu May 3 2013, 08:04 PM
Since today we honor the birthday of the great funk master James Brown - The almighty godfather of soul, what better way to celebrate than jamming together in his memory on a groovy funk track!
The terms are simple 
Use the E minor pentatonic or minor blues scale to come up with funky licks and tricks!
That being said, let's get down and dirty with this one, so here are the tech specs:
Tempo: 110 BPM
Time signature: 4/4
Chord progression: E7#9 mainly and in the first part there is a little formula which takes us through the D7#9 and Eb7#9. The last chord from the second formula is a D7#9.
Scales: pentatonic minor and blues
http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/scalegenerator
http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/scalegenerator
Material format:
Audio tracks - 1 .wav track with your solo only and an .mp3 track having both the solo and the backing
Video track - mp4 would be awesome 
Clothing style: AS FUNKY AS IT GETS!
Deadline: May 25th
Let's groove brothers and sisters!
Cosmin
Posted by: jstcrsn May 3 2013, 11:45 PM
dam I wish I had a leisure suit after listening to that
Posted by: Cosmin Lupu May 4 2013, 09:47 AM
I laughed so hard! 
Yeah man! Leisure suit or not, jump in the collab and we'll have a blast!
Posted by: Sensible Jones May 4 2013, 05:42 PM
Let me get up and do my thing!!
I'm in, I'm in, I'm in!
Posted by: gregc1 May 4 2013, 06:38 PM
Haha, yes. Definitely going to try and work something up for this.
Nice backing and nice collab title Cosmin.
Posted by: Cosmin Lupu May 5 2013, 01:36 PM
Alright gentlemen! Feel free to boogie with me on this one Your presence honors me, as always!
Posted by: tonyk May 13 2013, 02:25 AM
Hey Cosmin, just checking that I'm to solo over whole 1.47 minutes and not just one chorus.thanks
Posted by: Cosmin Lupu May 13 2013, 06:57 AM
Alright man, very good
Posted by: Cosmin Lupu May 22 2013, 12:28 PM
Guys, two days left for the entries! No one wants to groove?
Posted by: Sensible Jones May 25 2013, 01:30 PM
PC's crashed!!!! Not able to record video on my other one, the processor isn't fast enough!!
On the up-side I've ordered a new Solid State Drive!!
Posted by: Cosmin Lupu May 25 2013, 06:13 PM
Guys, I am extending the deadline 'till Tuesday evening!
Everybody is welcome of course!
Posted by: Cosmin Lupu May 26 2013, 01:29 PM
On the up-side I've ordered a new Solid State Drive!!
Congrats on the new purchase
Guess there's no chance to fix the PC till Tuesday, eh? 
Posted by: Sensible Jones May 26 2013, 05:02 PM
Guess there's no chance to fix the PC till Tuesday, eh? If I can get something done I will, but I can't guarantee it!
Posted by: Cosmin Lupu May 27 2013, 06:58 AM
Alright man, no problemmo
Posted by: Cosmin Lupu May 28 2013, 10:04 PM
Looks like nobody wants to jam 
Well, I guess I'll just do it on my own then
Posted by: Nimrandir May 29 2013, 03:33 PM
Well, I guess I'll just do it on my own then I want to jam Cosmin!
I haven't played for a week though, so I don't know if I'll be able to play anything meaningful .
Posted by: Cosmin Lupu May 29 2013, 03:51 PM
I'll wait for you man! We can be two Just try to come up with something till tomorrow evening or Friday morning, deal?
Posted by: Nimrandir May 29 2013, 03:51 PM
Deal!
Posted by: Cosmin Lupu May 29 2013, 03:59 PM
Grrreat!
Posted by: Nimrandir May 31 2013, 06:42 AM
Hi Cosmin!
I will record my take in about 10-12 hours. Sorry for the delay.
Posted by: Cosmin Lupu May 31 2013, 07:31 AM
Hey man, sure, it's ok
Posted by: Nimrandir May 31 2013, 06:25 PM
Oh wow, I just noticed it is actually a video collab 
. Going to record video now, only need to remember what I played there (no funky clothes though ).
Here's audio. As always, tons of timing mistakes; it was partly improvised, and I am absolute zero when it comes to that .
JBrown_wbt.mp3 ( 4.19MB )
: 115
http://soundcloud.com/nimrandir/jbrown-nobt
Posted by: Nimrandir May 31 2013, 09:43 PM
I didn't know where to upload the video, so I just uploaded it on youtube. It's not perfectly sinced with what I'm playing, there are places where it is easily seen that audio and video were recorded separately. Hope it is not a big deal.
Also my guitar is a bit out of tune, especially on low frets of G string. I had to tune open G about 15-20 cents higher so that the tuning is about right around 12th fret and up. I don't know if it is intonation issue or the string is just old (haven't changed it for months).
Anyway, hope the solo doesn't sound too terrible. I think it sounds pretty bad, but I have an excuse that I haven't touched the guitar for a while, and time was short . I will put more time in your next collab, I promise!
Posted by: Cosmin Lupu May 31 2013, 10:30 PM
Hey man! I think it's pretty damn good! Thanks for joining! Will get this baby up by Monday I think!
Posted by: Cosmin Lupu Jun 4 2013, 07:10 AM
Curious about how pappa James would sound if his music would be pumped on steroids? Check this out:
Thank you Nimrandir for making this a nice team effort! Your playing is very good and tight, great articulation and ideas, especially on sucha a short notice. I have selected the part which I enjoyed the most and I tried to make a theme like, so called 'chorus part'
Well, this Wednesday I will start a new one, so stay tuned guys!
Cosmin
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