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Originally Posted by John A.
Metaphors... Music is full of them.
"I left my heart in San Francisco..."
"The lady is a tramp"
"I'd love to gain complete control of you, even handle the heart and soul of you"
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12-12-2020 12:07 PM
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Originally Posted by mr. beaumont
John
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Originally Posted by John A.
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Originally Posted by mr. beaumont
John
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Here's a one shot take...
Actually, playing with that track was kinda tricky...the holes in the melody apparently aren't what I usually target.
Oh well...still kinda fun. Might do a different take if time allows.
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Originally Posted by mr. beaumont
John
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Why are you trying to solo in the gaps? Weird. Why is that backing playing the melody? I don't get this. It's like supporting a singer or something, all you've got room for is putting little doodles in.
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Originally Posted by ragman1
I think I'll do a "for real" take too. This was a decent challenge though...
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Ah, is that the one in #24? I didn't hear it properly because he was playing quite loudly.
But you should do your version, definitely. It's a funny tune, looks so simple but it's not that easy. At least, I didn't find it so. But I'm playing a lot of rubbish anyway at the moment, not sure why :-)
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Originally Posted by ragman1
Always thought this version was brilliant.
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Here’s a version I did yonks ago with a cellist. My favourite bit is when the phone goes off.
here’s a recent version with mr potato head. I think he relates to this one.
I always like this tune as a ‘palette cleanser’ against more difficult or arty material.
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Originally Posted by ragman1
John
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Originally Posted by ragman1
The Hal Leonard Real Book track for this tune is actually based on the Basie arrangement and is quite fun to play with also. Has the Freddie Green rhythm guitar going, same intro and outro, which I need to chart out because I have some trouble following them.
So here's a clip of my hacking through the tune, but with strict LR stereo separation, the backing track on the L, my guitar on the R. You could play with the track I suppose just by muting my guitar track.
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Lawson -
I had a hand like that once :-)
Thanks for the info. I downloaded the video audio and put it into Audacity, which is the only relevant software I've got. They have a L/R pan effect but it doesn't completely separate the backing from the solo. So all I've got is a softer solo, if you see what I mean. It's not usable as a backing.
In any case, to be honest, I'm not sure it would make a lot of difference to what I'd do. But it is true that one's affected by the type of backing one uses. A band sound isn't the same as my own chordal stuff; it does affect the playing.
But many thanks anyway. We struggle on :-)
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Originally Posted by ragman1
It is a very easy to separate tracks on Audacity.
Audio file sent by Lawson has a great chanell separation/one chanell-guitar,another-backing tr./.
You have to put sparate stereo chanells/left side over streo track/ .Next you can do what you want...f.ex.cancel solo and normalize backing track for louder playing...next you can export backing track as mp3 or wave.
Maybe this help.
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KrisLast edited by kris; 12-15-2020 at 05:32 AM.
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Thanks for your help. I've been using Audacity for years and years! You say the audio file Lawson 'sent'. I'm not aware of anything he's posted other than the videos.
The audio coming from the videos isn't stereo here, it's all one track so it can't be separated. The tracks might have been separate originally but not on the final video here. I can only make the left or right softer or louder. You always hear the guitar whatever you do.
I think this is right but if not I'm sure someone will tell me.
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Originally Posted by christianm77
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Originally Posted by ragman1
You can split the stereo track to 2 mono tracks in Audacity (it’s either in the Tracks menu or it’s one of those options listed on the left of the actual track, can’t remember right now), then remove the unwanted guitar track, to leave just the backing track.
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Originally Posted by ragman1
2.Open in Audacity
3.Seperat wave stereo chanels/L+R/
4.Cancel chanel-track with guitar
5.Normalise backing track and save if you like.
That is all.
I /ve got clean Lawson/s backing track without any problems.
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Kris
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Originally Posted by grahambop
Video file from post 41.
It is stereo audio file in this video.
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Kris
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Originally Posted by grahambop
Downloading (recording the vid audio internally with Audacity) doesn't produce a stereo track. How could it? It's one sound. To separate the lead from the backing requires a stereo dual-input track and it's not that.
I could very easily demonstrate it all with a phone video but I'm not going to!
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Originally Posted by kris
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There is a link with seperated mp3 backing track from Lawson's video.
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Kris
Box
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Originally Posted by ragman1
There are a lot of them.
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Originally Posted by ragman1
Blowin in the Wind
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