[blaine hoopes]

I thought I'd post another original from the collaboration I did with Ruckatan Latin Tribe. This is a very high energy screamer of a tune!

I mainly played keyboards in this band with only a few quick sax/flute parts. When a tune had a flute or sax part, I always had to plan ahead to get the sax hanging around my neck in preparation for the upcoming solo while still playing keyboard parts. Keeping the reed moist at summer festival shows was always a challenge (I don't care for synthetic or plasticover - but sometimes I had no choice but to use plasticover) so I kept a water bottle handy to drip water on the mouthpiece with my left hand and hope it trickled around the mouthpiece to the reed. You people who keep your horn clean and polished would be horrified to see me pouring water over my horn on stage Or I would be reaching for the flute with my left hand while playing keys with the right - and getting the flute up to my lips and in position with just the left hand ready to quickly bring up my right hand and take a quick solo and back to the keys again. It was quite the juggling act. Tunes that have horn section stabs I would pick notes I could play on sax with left hand only while doing the trumpets and trombone voices on keyboard with right hand.

Anywhoo ... here is the tune for your consideration. I'm not sure what style this is exactly - probably a hybrid of some sort as our focus was always to be a melting pot of various world styles.

soundcloud.com/user-460666353/como-chingas-ruckatan-latin-tribe

 

[whamptoncourt]

Good story and a nightmare of doubling. Where's the tune?

 

[blaine hoopes]

Good story and a nightmare of doubling. Where's the tune?

The forum software doesn't work correctly with private Soundcloud links (I made it private so only people with the link can see it - the band is still selling this so I didn't want it public on Soundcloud - just sharing with people in this thread) --- I had to Edit the post to trick the forum software by removing the "https://" from the link. If you refresh the page you should see my edited link and hopefully it'll work?

Here's the working link: soundcloud.com/user-460666353/como-chingas-ruckatan-latin-tribe

 

[whamptoncourt]

Very slick and professional. Really tight rhythms (you've got a great feel for the keys parts). Excellent tenor solo on this with heaps of passion to match this.

 

[blaine hoopes]

Very slick and professional. Really tight rhythms (you've got a great feel for the keys parts). Excellent tenor solo on this with heaps of passion to match this.

Thanks for listening and for the kind words.

 

[SaxNutz]

That's some great stuff, you're a heck of a piano man, high energy sax too. You guys really nail that style of music.

 

[lostcircuits]

The forum software doesn't work correctly with private Soundcloud links (I made it private so only people with the link can see it - the band is still selling this so I didn't want it public on Soundcloud - just sharing with people in this thread) --- I had to Edit the post to trick the forum software by removing the "https://" from the link. If you refresh the page you should see my edited link and hopefully it'll work?

Here's the working link: soundcloud.com/user-460666353/como-chingas-ruckatan-latin-tribe

Awesome!!!

 

[lostcircuits]

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[Keith Ridenhour]

This breaks my own rule a little! .This is my arrangement (vs. an original) of “Summer Breeze” by Seals and Crofts. I made it awhile back during record-breaking cold just after a blizzard in Maine (it was therapeutic!) and attached a pic of a summer day playing a gig in Castine,Maine on my website.I play saxophone, flute and synths I used the Partido Alto groove for the verses. The partido alto groove was very difficult to play my melody with for some reason and I'm not entirely happy with it because it seems kind of choppy or something, but no matter how I tried to do it differently it just didn't seem to improve it, but it does contrast with the other section that used a more traditional dry swing drum loop.

I'm working on an original Rumba though so stay tuned!

Summer Breeze

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Sounds: The verse uses Partido Alto loops/samples from Celso Alberti, fretless bass, jazz guitar and Rhodes. In the second verse I use a new device called Humana in the DAW I use (Reason) which has great samples of the human voice. The last verses are solos- first tenor, then synth (Rhodes put through a polyphonic arpeggiator), and finally flute for the outro. The chorus has a more traditional dry swing drum loop, a “low simple sub” bass, a guitar sound called “Vollenweiderustica” and a synth called “Shoals”. The contrasting, more tranquil sounds in the bridge are synths called “Ambient Bamboo” and “Cinematic Justice”. The Rhodes accompanies, and there is an Udu sample.

Your flute work is fantastic

 

[Taragot]

Thank you whamptoncourt, Sonja and lostcircuits for your very nice words.

I can’t believe you didn’t win!

It was the first time I took part in such a competition and it was a great experience to keep the focus to a goal and a deadline. I think the winner was a full time concert band conductor, so it's great, that a person who really makes a living as a musician won that price.
The biggest advantage with an awarded piece imo is, that it's granted that there's an ensemble who plays the dots on the paper in a concert. Really difficult to find an orchestra who's willing to try out a composition from a noname guy....
(so if you play in a concert band, I'd be happy to send you the parts .... )

 

[Keith Ridenhour]

Here's a piece for concert band called summer breeze in modest cuban/bossa style. It's the last of my 4 movement piece "4 winds" - and I could thankfully link two of them in the odd meter OOTM.
The sounds are sibelius/noteperformer. I wrote this for a composition contest for junior concert band, which I did not win But without the contest I wouldn't have invested the time and work and I learned a lot on the way. So if you run a ensemble like this - drop me a line and I'd be glad to send the parts.
All the best!

4winds_Summer Breeze

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hearthis.at

Really nice arrangement/composition. you get some Juicy complex chords in the background. Perfect for aJunior high band K maybe senior high, faster with a solo section?? K

 

[Roundmidnite]

My rumba!

 

[CaneMutiny]

Henderson's Double Rainbow in a nice album
IIRC, one side is Joe with Yanks and the other side, Joe and those from South of the Panama Canal.

 

[SaxNutz]

My rumba!

Wow, that's really groovy! You do some very interesting piano chords, great stuff. The horn arrangement is super cool too.

 

[blaine hoopes]

My rumba!

Really interesting. Love the big tone you're getting!

 

[ralph lh]

I thought I'd post another original from the collaboration I did with Ruckatan Latin Tribe. This is a very high energy screamer of a tune!

Anywhoo ... here is the tune for your consideration. I'm not sure what style this is exactly - probably a hybrid of some sort as our focus was always to be a melting pot of various world styles.

That's a great tune, Blaine. Wonderful montuno style with your keys work and the tenor solo fits right in with the feel of the tune. Loved it.

 

[ralph lh]

My rumba!

Nice tune, very sultry, almost a Tango feel

 

[Roundmidnite]

The forum software doesn't work correctly with private Soundcloud links (I made it private so only people with the link can see it - the band is still selling this so I didn't want it public on Soundcloud - just sharing with people in this thread) --- I had to Edit the post to trick the forum software by removing the "https://" from the link. If you refresh the page you should see my edited link and hopefully it'll work?

Here's the working link: soundcloud.com/user-460666353/como-chingas-ruckatan-latin-tribe

holy cow that was awesome! I really like the edgy sounds in there and the saxophone has the perfect energy I think.

 

[Roundmidnite]

Nice tune, very sultry, almost a Tango feel

I honestly have some confusion about all these styles. The percussion I used were under "rumba" in my kontakt library, but there seems to be a rhumba that's a ballroom dance and rumba which can mean a lot of different seems it seems.

 

[whamptoncourt]

Hopefully this comes across as "constructive": You're a fine player from many tracks I've heard you play and this composition is really superb. However, as with many players, your low notes aren't strong or consistent. Maybe put this up a third and play it where you may be more comfortable? The ideas in those opening phrases and the repeats are so clever, you really want them to shine. Might help using a mellower mouthpiece as well which doesn't have an "ambiguous" high harmonic. The solos and horn arrangement are really top notch.