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My own music on the web

Written by Wolf Schweitzer

Saturday, 31 May 2008

The beauty of online access is the option of sharing multi media. I play the guitar since 1976 and I play with digital synthesizing software since 1984. I still remember programming my own real time audio effect device on my Commodore C-64. Since then, lots of things happened. For example, now there are fully digital Boss effect devices and free mp3s...

I recently decided to extend my repertoire. This is a first demo on a second-hand Vester jazz bass guitar (left handed, using right arm for muffling). You have to use real good audio equipment to check it out as the bass is real low:

http://www.swisswuff.ch/sounds/vesterbassndrum3.mp3 (extended drumkit)
http://www.swisswuff.ch/sounds/vesterbassndrum.mp3

Since a while I play the guitar (setup: Aria Les Paul Copy, Boss GT 8, Hughes & Kettner Matrix 100). This is a technical sample of a 2-track recording (one-handed guitar play - left only):

http://www.swisswuff.ch/sounds/lefthanded2.mp3

I like to play with Reason, as some know that had to suffer the consequences of endless loop refinement. Listen to this but make sure to turn it up loud:

http://www.swisswuff.ch/sounds/synth_base_drum_demo.mp3 -I so much twisted the harmonies on this one that am not sure myself what type of chords these really are. I think I started with some theoretically sound ideas but then, things got out of hand. There is also a more eerie initial version.

http://www.swisswuff.ch/sounds/localminus4.mp3 - I played with variable rhythm jazz tunes until I came up with this bit, which goes so really well with that famous speech. "I have a dream!"
http://www.swisswuff.ch/sounds/fjordenmoss_WOLF_ON_REASON_4_Jan_2007.mp3 - Trance / jazz mix - what happened was, that I love Nils Petter Molvaer to death, but his music is a bit too much on the melancholic side. So I tried something past the Khmer Remix album.
http://www.swisswuff.ch/sounds/house_bouse_WOLF_ON_REASON_Versionen_2001_2003.mp3 - House rhythm variation - why buy these if it is so easy making your own! People should not be charged for such tomfoolery...
http://www.swisswuff.ch/sounds/My_Piano_Song_(WOLF_ON_REASON_5-Januar-2007.mp3 - Sillylittle loop tune. I just did this to see how it would work as ring tone on my mobile phone. Haha, works great.

Guitars are not really new to me. These are some samples of previous guitar play (regular two-handed) :

http://www.swisswuff.ch/sounds/bluegrass_demo.mp3 (impro on some bluegrass picking)
http://www.swisswuff.ch/sounds/blues_demo.mp3 (improvisation on 'Deep River Blues')
http://www.swisswuff.ch/sounds/E-Gitarrentest-FEB2007.mp3 - This was just a technical demo to show how some of the faster scales can come about. This is not real music.
http://www.swisswuff.ch/sounds/Momma_Dont_Low_(Take1_2007).mp3 - Good old country flatpick demo. They are not that much better on the Merle Festival.
http://www.swisswuff.ch/sounds/blues_demo1.mp3 - Blues Demo. This explains why I like blues demos. They all turn out a tad bit different. Or, do they?
http://www.swisswuff.ch/sounds/bluesdemo2.mp3 - Blues Demo. This explains why I like John Hiatt. Or does it?
http://www.swisswuff.ch/sounds/b3.mp3 - Blues Demo. This explains nothing much other than me loving Les Paul style guitars, but it sure was fun to play.

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