whistledixie
Joined: Sep 23, 2012
Posts: 69
stone mountain, georgia
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Posted on Sep 28 2012 10:57 AM
Howdy folks!
Yesterday I had a few hours to myself & decided to work on a demo for an arrangment idea I had. I thought it would be cool to cover Korobeiniki (the Tetris theme) & discussed it with the band, but I thought they might be better able to see what I mean on some aspects of the arrangment if I put it together in the studio before presenting it to them.
After I started working on it, I worried that it doesn't sound surf enough, sounds too much like a polka - so I added a surf beat to a little intro idea I had. But I still fear it doesn't quite feel like surf music once it gets to the real part of the song.
I'd love to hear your thoughts!
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Noel
Joined: Mar 15, 2011
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Back in Piitsburgh, Pennsylvania, where I grew up.
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Posted on Sep 28 2012 12:01 PM
It's wonderful. Very surfy all the way through. Don't forget, gypsy music, Jewish & Russian folk music, Greek and Arabian folk music have all been surfed. It seemlessly fits into these and I hope your band does a full-blown version. And it's traditional for the last chorus to be played double speed. Go for it.
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Last edited: Sep 28, 2012 12:01:27
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El_Sonido
Joined: Aug 17, 2012
Posts: 85
Tucson, AZ
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Posted on Sep 28 2012 12:42 PM
Noel wrote:
It's wonderful. Very surfy all the way through. Don't forget, gypsy music, Jewish & Russian folk music, Greek and Arabian folk music have all been surfed. It seemlessly fits into these and I hope your band does a full-blown version. And it's traditional for the last chorus to be played double speed. Go for it.
+1
I dig it. But I'm not on the surf patrol ;)
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DannySnyder
Joined: Mar 02, 2006
Posts: 11058
Berkeley, CA
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Posted on Sep 28 2012 12:52 PM
Very good song WD, absolutely no reason to change the beat. If it were my song, I'd edit down the song to no more than 3 minutes, probably starting with the intro, but that's just my tastes. 
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Richard
Joined: Mar 02, 2006
Posts: 1683
Georgia
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Posted on Sep 28 2012 01:18 PM
I second Danny's suggestion, and please don't worry about stuff being "surfy" enough. I think this works quite well as it is.
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whistledixie
Joined: Sep 23, 2012
Posts: 69
stone mountain, georgia
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Posted on Sep 28 2012 01:49 PM
Thanks for listening! I wasn't as concerned about it being enough of a surf sound, but I was given the task of creating a surf version so the thought was in the back of my head... It's funny how natural playing surf music feels to me, even though I just started trying to make things deliberately fit the genre 
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Aaron
Joined: Sep 13, 2011
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Posted on Sep 28 2012 02:10 PM
I was actually really upset when I opened this thread. You see, I have been intending to do this song as the cover on a cassette of Eastern European themed tunes called Thunder on the Dnepr. Our versions will be quite different, though.
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Noel
Joined: Mar 15, 2011
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Back in Piitsburgh, Pennsylvania, where I grew up.
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Posted on Sep 28 2012 02:13 PM
I wouldn't worry about it. It's almost a surf tradition for multiple covers of the same tune to come out back-to-back or all at once. Great minds and all that ...
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CrazyAces
Joined: Jul 31, 2012
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Nashville, TN.
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Posted on Oct 01 2012 10:09 AM
whistledixie, I think it's very cool.
and never fear the polka beat!
Check out The Royal Fingers' "Echo Rocket 66". It's a dead on Polka and it Rocks!
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whistledixie
Joined: Sep 23, 2012
Posts: 69
stone mountain, georgia
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Posted on Oct 01 2012 10:57 AM
CrazyAces wrote:
whistledixie, I think it's very cool.
and never fear the polka beat!
Check out The Royal Fingers' "Echo Rocket 66". It's a dead on Polka and it Rocks!
Thanks!
Pretty wild how quickly this came together - it went from not even knowing how to play the song, looking at a couple of youtube videos, working out a few parts, setting up some mics, recording & mixing all between lunch & band practice that night!
I literally had just brought it up to the guys the night before & wanted to start working on it that night & thought - what the heck, why not just record it?
I even kind of like the guitar sound I got out of my 1st amp from over 20 years ago - a Peavy Backstage w/the reverb cranked
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