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basilh


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United Kingdom
Post  Posted 28 Sep 2004 5:07 am    
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http://www.rienzihills.com/SING/akisstobuildadreamon.htm

I like the tune though !!
Baz
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Gerald Ross


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Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Post  Posted 28 Sep 2004 5:39 am    
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You found me Baz. That arrangement is by yours truly.

Actually what you are hearing is me on a MIDI guitar. About 10 years ago I bought a Godin Multi-Ac MIDI guitar and started sequencing MIDI tunes. I have about 30 MIDI guitar tunes on my website, solo guitar and full band arrangements (URL at bottom of this post). All tunes recorded real-time.

Go have a listen…the entire world has.

My tunes have shown up in the strangest places. My version of "Back Home Again In Indiana" was featured on some Indiana Meat Packing website for a few years! Did I even get a BLT out of the deal?? No... all I got was a link back to my site (thanks a lot).

I did get some work out of all of it. Some guy producing cartoons out of NYC sent me a few tunes he wanted parts added to. He paid me but refused to tell me which cartoons they were used on (scared I would steal his gig?).

On the tune you heard I play all the melody parts on the MIDI guitar (trumpet and piano). When playing the "trumpet" part I had to keep reminding myself to breathe when I phrased. Guitar players can play 60 second long phrases without coming up for air. Trumpet players cannot (let's not talk circular breathing here).

I sold all my MIDI equipment. Too frustrating. The delay between picking the note and actually hearing it was too long. This affected my timing, flow and spontaneity. Also the MIDI converter would frequently misinterpret the note played. These are problems that still plague MIDI guitars, although I have heard that the technology has improved.


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Gerald Ross
'Northwest Ann Arbor, Michigan's King Of The Hawaiian Steel Guitar'

Gerald's Fingerstyle Guitar Website

[This message was edited by Gerald Ross on 28 September 2004 at 08:10 AM.]

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Mike Neer


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NJ
Post  Posted 28 Sep 2004 6:04 am    
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I just traded an electric guitar for an old Martin Committee trumpet with a friend and we're both swapping lessons as well. Never enough music as far as I'm concerned.
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Al Marcus


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Cedar Springs,MI USA (deceased)
Post  Posted 29 Sep 2004 2:53 pm    
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Small world, Mike. I played trumpet in the school band for 3 years. Then traded the horn in for 60 lessons on the Hawaiian guitar and that included a wooden cheap guitar. That's waht started the whole Hawaiian thing for me in 1936.....al

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