Re: [linux-audio-user] Samba felidae - call for soloists :)

From: Ken Restivo <ken@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Mon Mar 19 2007 - 06:21:37 EET

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On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 01:11:40AM +0100, Florian Schmidt wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> i've written a little lo-fi samba tune called "Samba felidae" (lo-fi because
> all that was used was my guitar and a shaker and because my microphone isn't
> the best). And i think a solo by a non-guitar instrument would be quite nice
> on it :)
>
> So if anyone likes the tune and also likes to play a solo over it, please go
> ahead..Or if you want to add anything else, go ahead, too :)
>
> Anyways, here's a link:
>
> http://tapas.affenbande.org/samba_felidae.ogg
>
> It goes through the "melody" first for two times, then around 1:20 a full form
> is played just with backing chords which leaves space for soloing until 2:04.
> After that it goes through the head once again and then some pointless
> noodling ;) But feel free to do what you want with it really :)
>
> Changes are:
>
> A:
> ||Ebmaj7 | |Bbmaj7 | |
> |Am7b5 |D7 |Gm7 | |
> |Cm7 F7| Dm7 Gm7 |Abmaj7 | |
> |D7 | ||
>
> A':
> ||Ebmaj7 | |Bbmaj7 | |
> |Am7b5 |D7 |Gm7 | |
> |A7 | |Dsus | |
> |E7 | |A7 | ||
>

That is a wonderful song! Wish I could write songs like that; most of mine only have two chords at most. Yours is much more interesting to listen to.

I've had great fun jamming to it too. As soon as I figure out WTF to play over the A7 Dsus4 E7 A7 that sounds right to me, I'll send you an ogg and/or MIDI file.

I love that Abmaj7; I tend to use that chord a lot too.

Whomever it was that played a harmonic minor or Hungarian minor scale over the D7 did the right thing IMHO. I keep finding myself doing that too and AFAICT it seems to work really well.

This is a great model for collaboration too. Have you heard of http://www.ccmixter.org ? It seems to be populated with a lot of DJ/trance/hiphop/house type players/producers, but it's a good place to put a track or loop and let others interpret/remix it.

Hmm, maybe the world needs a linuxmixter.org? I'll bet all the code for ccmixter is GPL (or, CC "share-alike").

- -ken
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