longboardwheels
Joined: Mar 04, 2012
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Posted on Oct 12 2018 10:03 AM
As I promised a long time ago (these things take time) here is my latest surf classic.....Cat Squared Surf featuring Tim Askin on Stratocaster. Tim is a local Cleveland musician who plays in many bands of all styles....we met at Sundance Film Festival in 2004 when The Mermen performed there. The song ends up being a Duke Ellington meets Dick Dale with a rather odd instrumentation.....Strat, bass, drums, percussion, Hammond Organ, and piano with repeating motif's but with A-K sections rather than a standard ABACAB form. I recall the Miserlou melody on my custom Warmoth P Bass but the tune is in F (as opposed to E) the F tuning is more of a piano/keyboard tuning than a guitar tuning and I refer to the scale as Spanish Phrygian (as if such a thing exists.) I composed the thing and perform all instruments other than the guitar part which in a style of it's own (not really traditional surf but psychedelicized with string snapping bends.) I do use a pic on the bass because it just fits the style of the song, and even though the recording is digital I use a Leslie speaker with a tube amp to achieve the killer rotary speaker effect on the organ, and go for a slightly noisier analogue sound quality in general......because I like it.
Hope you guys like it too.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzoqXBHlCA0
thanks
Ken Wheels
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Redfeather
Joined: Jul 30, 2016
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Posted on Oct 12 2018 01:13 PM
Nice! That's a hell of a song, Ken. I love the tonal variety, the pacing, the energy. The drums are outstanding. I always listen to the drums to measure the surfiness of a song and yours are legit. The piano accents sound great, too. I really like what piano brings to a song. And yeah, it does give it an Ellington feel.
I really like it. Thanks for sharing. When's the next one coming?
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longboardwheels
Joined: Mar 04, 2012
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Posted on Nov 01 2018 09:56 AM
Glad to see you like the tune.......I just dug up some archival footage from California and South Dakota for this one. I do have another Latin style song which I might post without any video footage so keep an eye out for it.....that one has two guitar parts split stereo and turned out great as well.
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longboardwheels
Joined: Mar 04, 2012
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Posted on Nov 04 2018 08:31 PM
Here is the Latin Surf song I composed. Tim Askin does the 2 Stratocaster parts, and this one features an electric piano through that Leslie speaker, a bit of percussion, and that's all. Pay particular attention to the B section (:50-1:14) where the harmonic tension builds with the contrasting keys and guitar due to the ultra high extensions ( I use a lot of #9/#11/b13 colors) while Tim weaves around it all ending in a perfect resolution. I am happy with this first draft.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MW8VXNmqe-k
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montereyjack66
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Posted on Nov 04 2018 11:02 PM
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