#arranger

[mannytoodope]

John Richard Baldwin (born 3 January 1946) was better known by his stage name John Paul Jones. He is best known as the bassist for the band Led Zeppelin. Before joining the band, he was a session musician with other bands. Jone's excellent bass work with a "thumping and strumming" sound worked well under Plant's unique vocals, Page's skilled guitar work, and John Bonham's wild drumming. After the death of their drummer, John Bonham, Led Zeppelin disbanded, and Jones played in other bands just as he did before he played with Led Zeppelin. Soon, Jones was done playing from band to band, and then he formed Them Crooked Vultures with members of other rock bands like Dave Grohl and Josh Homme. The Crooked Vultures aren't as blues-rock/metal" as Led Zeppelin was and more alt-metal. When he isn't making music with the bands he is playing with, he composes music for films and produces music for bands. Jones has been able to showcase his work over the past few years and will continue to do so.

#Musician #Singer-Songwriter #Producer #Arranger #Led Zeppelin #Them Crooked Vultures

[mudwerks]

(via Don Sebesky, Arranger Who Helped Broaden Jazz’s Audience, Dies at 85 - The New York Times)

Mr. Sebesky in the studio with the pianist Herbie Hancock and the guitarist Wes Montgomery in 1967, working on Mr. Montgomery’s album “A Day in the Life.” The album would be one of the most successful Mr. Sebesky arranged.

Don Sebesky, who in a wide-ranging musical career played with leading big bands, was a behind-the-scenes force at CTI Records and other jazz labels, won Grammy Awards for his own compositions and arrangements, and orchestrated some 20 Broadway shows, died on April 29 at a nursing home in Maplewood, N.J. He was 85.

#Don Sebesky #arranger #composer #jazz #fusion #CTI #george benson #obit #nytimes #vintage #Herbie Hancock #Wes Montgomery #1967 #A Day in the Life

[opera-ghosts]

OTD in Music History: Important composer, master orchestrator, and noted music teacher Gustav Holst (1874 – 1934) dies in Britain. The sickly son of a Swedish father and an English mother, Holst studied at the Royal College of Music in London. His own instrument of choice was the trombone, and for a number of years after graduating he made a living playing in the Carl Rosa Opera Company and in various other regional orchestras. Holst eventually became music master at St. Paul’s Girls’ School in 1905, and then director of music at Morley College in 1907; he thereafter retained both of those posts until the end of his life. Best known as a composer for his phenomenally popular orchestral suite "The Planets" (1917), Holst actually composed a sizable body of works that spanned a wide range of genres -- but none of his other works has achieved comparable popular success. Holst's distinctive compositional style was an amalgam of many influences, with Richard Wagner (1813 - 1883) and Richard Strauss (1864 - 1949) both looming particularly large -- although, along with his close friend and colleague Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872 - 1958), he also drew particular inspiration from the English "folksong revival" of the early 20th century. Aside from "The Planets," other notable works by Holst include the opera "Sita" (1906); "The Hymn of Jesus" for chorus and orchestra (1917); "Ode to Death" for chorus and orchestra (1919); the opera "The Perfect Fool (1923); the "Choral Symphony" (1924); the opera "At the Boar’s Head" (1925); the "Double Concerto for Two Violins and Orchestra" (1929); and "Hammersmith" for large orchestra (1930). PICTURED: A very rare signed portrait photograph showing the elderly Holst staring out intensely into the camera.

#opera #classical music #music history #bel canto #composer #classical composer #aria #classical studies #gustav holst #Holst #arranger #teacher #pedagogue #suite #The Planets #Royal College of Music #musician #classical musician #classical musicians #musicians #chest voice #maestro #music

[yourdailyqueer]

Owen Pallett

Gender: Genderqueer (they/them)

Sexuality: Gay

DOB: 7 September 1979

Ethnicity: White - Canadian

Occupation: Musician, composer, arranger

#Owen Pallett #queerness #nb #nonbinary #lgbtq #non binary #genderqueer #gay #1979 #white #canadian #musician #composer #arranger

[coffeetime88]

Nintendo Partner Showcase February 2024

Honey, Microsoft Shrunk the Kids (Grounded)

Full Metal Alchemist X Neir Automata (Ender Magnolia: Bloom in the Mist)

The Cha Cha Slide, Part 5 (Arranger: A Role-Puzzling Adventure)

Final Emblem: Ogre Saga (Unicorn Overlord)

I think this is what people expect from Pokémon for some reason (Monster Hunter Stories)

DISNEY EPIC MICKEY REBRUSHED

V for Vendetta DLC (Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance)

Bond With Your [Younger/Older] Brother! (Star Wars Battlefront Classic Collection)

Fart of the Wild (South Park: Snow Day)

Hyperlight Kirito [with 20 player co-op] (Sword Art Online Fractured Daydream)

Armored Core 7 (Gundam Breaker 4)

Do You Think Surgeons Will Also Use This As Practice? [with 16 player co-op] (Super Monkey Ball Banana Rumble)

Slime Tiktok Meets Engineering Tiktok (World of Goo 2)

Dark Cloud 3: Animal Crossing [with 4 player co-op] (Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time)

Are You Telling Me A Hermit Crabbed This Shell? (Another Crab's Treasure)

Circus Celeste (Penny's Big Breakaway)

Didn't Alpharad Already Do This? (Suika Game 2-Player Battle Paid DLC)

Drill-y Kong Country (Pepper Grinder)

They Put Gambling In My Solitaire (Pocket Card Jockey: Ride On!)

Hey Tumblr, Can You Tell Me About This In A Sane Manner? (Snuffkin: Melody of Moominvalley)

2D Africa Platformer (Tales of Kenzera: ZAU)

Demon Slayer Mario Party (Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- Sweep the Board!)

Skyrim Again (Kingdom Come Deliverance - Royal Edition)

Don't Forget the Konami Code (Contra: Operation Galuga)

Ye Olde Disco Elysium (Pentiment)

Game Grumps: Return to Nine-Ball Island [with 30 player co-op] (Endless Ocean Luminous)

#Nintendo Direct #nintendo switch games #endless ocean #ender magnolia #unicorn overlord #monster hunter stories #epic mickey #star wars battlefront 2 #world of goo #super monkey ball #fantasy life i #penny's big breakaway #pepper grinder #suika game #shin megami tensei #arranger #gundam breaker 4

[garyrevel]

Guitar/Vocal

No Tears at All - Gary Revel

#garyrevel #music video #jongleur music #music #gary revel #musician #guitarist #guitar #vocal #composer #arranger #producer #director #lyricist #singer #songwriter

[plus-low-overthrow]

Boz Scaggs - I Got Your Number (CBS)

arr. H. B. Barnum, 1974.

#Boz Scaggs #I Got Your Number #h b barnum #arranger #1974 #Soul

[babblybird]

My arrangement of EGO is out on SoundCloud now! (Music video drops tonight and dw Spotify and other major streaming platforms are next !)🤍🖤🤍🖤 #linkinbio

#music #artist #singer #female vocals #art #cover song #hiphop #musician #arranger #music producer #pop music #hiphopmusic #female artists #femalerap

[officialangelkeys]

One Flower, One Sword (一花一劍 ) Piano Cover | Heaven Official's Blessing - Li Xinyi | 李鑫一

Piano / Music commissions are open! x

#musician #composer #arranger #commission #pianist #youtube #tgcf #one flower one sword #xie lian #hua cheng #heaven official's blessing #piano cover #utaite #youtaite #Youtube

[thedaveandkimmershow]

There are, of course, times when it's easy to complain about how busy we are. About how packed, how tight our schedule is.

And that's legitimate. I won't knock anyone who's on the razor's edge of overwhelmed.

However.

I usually have these conversations with Creatives. Musicians. DJs. Editors. And so on.

And in that circumstance, I get to do one of my favorite things: I get to remind them how they're being in demand at something they love. How they're getting paid to do what they're passionate about. And yeah. They're busy.

Of course when you're busy, when life gets tight, even with something you love, you're hyperfocused on logistics, on what's gotta get done, on Tetris-ing time. In the midst of all that activity, it's also easy to forget you're a professional. It's natural to overlook how much you are, in fact, in demand. With a high density schedule, there's often little bandwidth left to remember important facts on the ground like having an amazing personal and professional network and new opportunities that are ever closer at hand.

In the midst of a sustained, professional juggling act and Tetris-ing challenge, it's easy to undervalue the sum total of everything you bring to the table no matter who you are. It's easy to underestimate your abilities in the midst of all the doing you do.

So it is easy to lose track of the part where this is your dream. This. Is the life you've been working toward.

This is the plan.

And right now, this very minute, you're getting paid to live it.

You're getting paid.

To live your dream.

It's a helluva thought is all I'm saying. And it bears as much entertaining as possible. Even if that happens to be after the fact. After the gig's over. After the week is done.

After you get through it.

Linzy's having one of these weeks right now. It started squeezing her for real Saturday night with the Little Lies gig at the Old Edmonds Opera House (a fantastic performance, by the way. The band conjured the vibe of arena rock). Then Sunday was rehearsals for two different bands, Midnight High and Annie J, both performing this Thursday night at the Sunset Tavern in Ballard.

I gotta look at her schedule Saturday night and she is wall to wall to wall to wall. Enough so that self care becomes one of those things you've gotta make yourself to do in order to sustain your very best through this particular gauntlet.

Like I said: it's a helluva thing. An epic workload. And all the opportunities that go with proving yourself over and over and over again.

I'm sure I've said it before. But seriously.

This is getting good.

😁😁😁😁😁😁

#Midnight High #Annie J #The Little Lies PNW #musician #vocalist #keys #guitar #synths #professional #performer #writer #composer #arranger #sole proprietor #mixer

[elizaneals]

#SummerMusic and #outdoorfestival season is here 💥 #BluesFestivals coming up starting on JUNE 10 #StompTheBlues Out of Homelessness in #Springfield #Missouri for a great cause with a sweet lineup of great musicians & voices! I perform at 1pm so don't miss the #bluesrock 🔥 Check em out stompthebluesoutofhomelessness.com and buy tickets #linkinbio👆🏽 NExT: AUG 4 #PortSanilac MichiganAUG 26 #LongBranch New Jersey DEC 1 #Bradenton Florida & more on the way TourSchedule go to ElizaNeals.com/shows 👈🏽 #TouringArtist #RecordingArtist #FemaleProducer #Musician #Songwriter #Arranger #Publisher #Bandleader #Americanroots #ContemporayBlues #Womenwhorock #womeninblues #fearless #DetroitGirl #underdog #risetogether #supportlocal #springfieldMO 💙 (at Springfield, Missouri) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqGPMDuO2jQ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#summermusic #outdoorfestival #bluesfestivals #stomptheblues #springfield #missouri #bluesrock #linkinbio👆🏽 #portsanilac #longbranch #bradenton #touringartist #recordingartist #femaleproducer #musician #songwriter #arranger #publisher #bandleader #americanroots #contemporayblues #womenwhorock #womeninblues #fearless #detroitgirl #underdog #risetogether #supportlocal #springfieldmo

[marvelman901]

Amazing Spider-Man Annual 22 (1988) . Evolutionary War part 5 . Drug War Rages . Written by Tom DeFalco and David Michelinie Penciled by Mark Bagley Inked by Mike Esposito Colors by Bob Sharen Lettered by Rick Parker Edited by Jim Salicrup Cover by Ron Frenz and John Romita . Introducing Speedball! . Daredevil and Spider-Man tried to clear Spider-Man from some murder charges... . See more relevant content here: #marvelman901spiderman #marvelman901daredevil #marvelman901arranger #marvelman901speedball #marvelman901newwarriors #marvelman901kingpin #marvelman901evolutionarywar . #evolutionarywar #daredevil #spiderman #speedball #kingpin #arranger #newwarriors #80s #ronfrenz #markbagley (på/i New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CmUv28hMa9A/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#marvelman901spiderman #marvelman901daredevil #marvelman901arranger #marvelman901speedball #marvelman901newwarriors #marvelman901kingpin #marvelman901evolutionarywar #evolutionarywar #daredevil #spiderman #speedball #kingpin #arranger #newwarriors #80s #ronfrenz #markbagley

[opera-ghosts]

OTD in Music History: Important Polish virtuoso pianist Carl Tausig (1841 – 1871) dies from typhoid in Leipzig, at the age of just 29. Tausig was Franz Liszt’s (1811 – 1886) greatest student, and he was universally hailed as one of the finest pianists of his day. Indeed, he was one of the few musicians able to juggle simultaneous friendships with both Richard Wagner (1813 – 1883) and Johannes Brahms (1833 – 1897) – two titans who generally operated as antithetical and antipodal forces in the German music world. (The fact that Tausig was ethnically Jewish did not phase Wagner. In a letter to Liszt, Wagner declared that “as a musician he is of course enormously talented, and his furious piano playing makes me tremble… but this youth also pleases me immensely in other ways, for although he frequently misbehaves like a naughty boy, he speaks like an old man with a pronounced character!”) It was actually misbehaving Tausig who indirectly caused the only direct correspondence that ever transpired between Wagner and Brahms. At some point, Tausig borrowed from Wagner’s manuscript copy of the score to “Tannhauser." Years later, knowing that Brahms was a passionate manuscript collector, he presented it to Brahms as a gift. When Wagner discovered this, however, he wrote Brahms a letter explaining that Tausig had given away something that wasn’t his and requesting the return of the manuscript. Brahms sent it back, along with a brief letter, and in return Wagner shipped him a deluxe first printed edition of “Das Rheingold” containing a personalized inscription. Russian pianist Anton Rubinstein (1829 – 1894) nicknamed Tausig “The Infallible.” Unlike his famous teacher, however, Tausig abhorred theatricality and showmanship; instead, he preferred to sit motionless at the piano, performing miracles with his fingers alone... PICTURED: One of Tausig’s personal visiting cards, on which he wrote the following message (in German): “Dear Mr. Thomas, I highly recommend to you Mr. Pinner, a very talented and intelligent student of mine. Perhaps you could let him perform in one of your great concerts? A thousand greetings from your devoted, Carl Tausig, Berlin, 21 April, '69."

#Karl Tausig #Tausig #Carl Tausig #Karol Tausig #virtuoso #pianist #arranger #composer #classical music #music history #classical composer #classical studies #classical composers #classical history #classical musician #classical musicians #historian of music #musician #musicians #Sérénade #concerto #concert #pedagogue #teacher

[centralmusicinstitute]

Honing their craft: Future musicians immerse themselves in a day of intensive music theory studies at Central Music Institute. 🎼 . . . . #centralmusicinstitute #cmitribe #cmi #musicschoaol #music #musictheory #theory #asia #fyp #nowplaying #major #minor #pop #composer #arranger #producer #musician #musicmaker #musiclessons #guitar #piano #violin #drums #newyear #facts #instagood #instagram #love #chord #2023 https://www.instagram.com/p/ConTRVmhl_5/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#centralmusicinstitute #cmitribe #cmi #musicschoaol #music #musictheory #theory #asia #fyp #nowplaying #major #minor #pop #composer #arranger #producer #musician #musicmaker #musiclessons #guitar #piano #violin #drums #newyear #facts #instagood #instagram #love #chord #2023

[mannytoodope]

Otis Ray Redding Jr.(September 9, 1941 – December 10, 1967) waRedding had this voice that was gritty and raw which was perfect for soul music. He is an essential figure in soul and r&b. He was a tall guy kind of but moved smoothly he had a raw and rugged voice. Redding also wrote many songs that were soon covered by other artists including, Respect by Aretha Franklin, and he even covered Satisfaction by The Rolling Stones. He was in the studio at Stax Records and did a little recording session that led to a contract and was able to release his first single, “ These Arms of Mine”. Redding was mostly popular with African-Americans, and Redding was able to appeal to a wider audience after his. infamous performance at The Monterey Pop Festival Redding(which I now own on DVD)has earned many posthumous accolades, including the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award he has been inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Songwriters Hall of Fame. ’ Redding is one of my favorite artists if I had a dog I would name him Otis.  He is a very big influence on many artists in various genres of music.

#Singer-Songwriter #Record Producer #Arranger #Soul #R&B

[alive-drumming]

Song Rhythm Tracks - Users' Testimonials

We canvassed some opinions from social media.  It is always interesting to see how others view Song Rhythm Tracks.  See what you think.

No.1 for Musician's Usability

      Ethan - Kyoto, Japan. Sax player. Plays pop, rock, blues, jazz, bop, ballads, everything really

Ethan Algan

IMMEDIATE MUSICIAN'S USABILITY.   What's different about this App is that it makes it feasible for the average guy, with very little effort, to play their songs to very engaging arranged rhythm tracks. I've tried lots of them and I haven't come across any other app that comes close to that. This app combines a musician's player, a setlist manager and an arranger in one app. It's really quick to select arrangements and then you can put them into setlists and keep changing and reordering the lists as your set evolves. Now I just grab my sax' and my mobile phone and either play a setlist or quickly search and find tracks as I go through my books of lead sheets. If I don't have a track for a tune, a minute later I will have and will probably be playing it. For me, there's nothing else that has this sort of immediate musician's usability.

Maverick and a True Innovator for the practical musician

          Sandra -  Perth, Australia. Plays guitar. Likes folk music.

Sandra Sutton

TRUE INNOVATION.  What can I say that hasn't already been said? Only perhaps that this App is a true innovator. A maverick you might say. It seems to do everything differently. It wasn't what I was expecting but now everything else I've tried seems redundant. What do you really want to do? To play with flashing lights - pretending to be hitting real drums? Or to get an MP3 file which is a professional quality backing track to a song you are playing? That, I think, is the innovation. That's what you get here. It's like a cross between the 'Music' App and a musician's backing-track service. You select the track you want and the Alive Drumming servers get you it. Then you have much more musician-friendly setlists and player than you get with the 'Music' App. Playing becomes a real joy instead of struggle. It's what all of us musicians want. We want to play our instruments and have great rhythmic backing with a minimum of fuss and bother. That's what this App delivers. A true innovation for the musician.

Drum Machines don't work end-to-end. They're not performance-ready

      Eloa - Brazil. Guitar, sings.  Loves conga, timbales, bongos and claves.  Plays and sings bossa nova, jazz samba, merengue, lambada 

Eloa Andes

LOVE THIS APP!!   Never seen anything like it. Drum machines don't cut it, even ones with some good sounding rhythms. Nothing else works well end-to-end in providing rhythmic backing tracks to your song list. The closest thing I've seen to this App are those apps that have the full sheet music, backing tracks and are song based. You buy the sheet-music and backing music for a song. They are OK, a bit expensive and don't always have your song, or the arrangement of your song, that you'd like to use. They can be a bit clunky as well and the rhythms tend not to be very good by themselves. This App is so much better for me because (i) the rhythms are fantastic, (ii) it doesn't matter if they don't have your song, you can arrange it yourself, simply, and (iii) the tracks start cheap and get cheaper the more you use the App. How come? I've found I often use the same rhythms and song forms. When I select exactly the same combination for a new song the App recognises it has that already and doesn't download it again. It's a different track name in the App with a different title but the App must know it can use the same audio file. Smart. It is also performance-ready as far as the setlists and player go.  So I just use this one App and it's fast and reliable for me during a performance. Totally love this app.

A unique arranger provides a lot of rhythmic support for little cost

      Hilly - Tokyo for now. Plays guitar and piano and sings. Likes latin and classic rock and pop

Hilly Edding

HUNDREDS OF GREAT RHYTHMS.  I find this app pretty unique in its approach to arranging. It's not the most comprehensive arranger available but it's unique in its simplicity. It really does allow for some pretty easy ways to arrange a track from simply matching on the track title to selecting a well-known song form. You can even enter song forms using "stick notation" (see their website or the inbuilt help screens). You then get an arrangement based on the sectional structure of the song with options for intros and endings as well. This works surprisingly well providing a track that really outlines the sections of the song including bridges and middle choruses as well. That's a lot of rhythm support for very little effort and cost. They sound very good as well. For a lot of tunes, that's all you need but for some tunes, you might also want drum breaks or different styles of drumming throughout the song. That's not what Song Rhythm Tracks does - not yet anyway. I've heard they are working on introducing breaks right now (now delivered in release 3.0). Still, there's never been a simpler or faster drum rhythm arranger as this and the player and setlists make it more usable than anything else. I love the hundreds of great rhythms.

Professional quality results, a simple approach with portable convenience

      Ron - LA, USA.  Plays guitar, mouth organ, piano and drums. Likes country, rock, jazz and blues

Ron Upton

PROFESSIONAL AND USABLE.  This App is incredible. I totally underestimated how good it is. The quality of the backing tracks is truly professional - professional, talented drumming, professional audio, professional arrangements. Coupled with that, I've never had an app like this before where it works so well keeping all the tracks in a table and being able to organise them into playlists. You can even play the entire list of tracks with one keypress. Incredible. I still can't get over that there isn't anything else left to do. It just works great! There are 4 included "factory" tracks that are OK. The Jazz and Blues Sampler app has 23 decent tunes included. These are good to evaluate the app but the real power comes from using it to arrange your own songs/tracks. There's nothing simpler than this. You won't believe it. I've created some of my own arrangements with 10+ choruses which is how our group plays. I carry it around with me on my iPhone and have it on an old iPad as well, which is good for our jamming. Still works on the old iPad. No problem with speed. Just start with the [ Jazz and Blues Sampler ] app and then add any tracks you want later. There are 1000s of rhythms to choose from - good ones too. There is nothing else out there anything like this App - it's nothing like the silly MIDI *dumb* machines. It's real quality, professional, and usable. Recommended.

An understated wonder is a wolf in sheep's clothing with ultimate usability

      Wendy - Florence, Italy.  Plays guitar, and clarinet.  Likes classical music and classic popular, folk, latin, jazz and blues, particularly on the clarinet!

Wendy Nonereally

WOLF IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING.  My experience is similar to the other poster. This App, at first glance, seems bland and uninspiring, but it is a wolf in sheep's clothing. It's the very essence of UNDERSTATEMENT - like Braun or B&O. No flashing lights. No gimmicks. Just GREAT DESIGN and a TOTAL RETHINK as regards USABILITY. The backing tracks are the best imaginable and ready in no time at all. They really do sound like a drummer is playing the ACTUAL SONG. I don't know how they achieve that without knowing everything about the song. It's uncanny.

because they take up so much of your time and don't sound that inspirational anyway. It's not like that with these Song Rhythm Tracks. 30 secs tops and they sound just great. No duds. The organisation and playing of tracks aren't mentioned much but it's brilliant and so understated. You don't need to use another player. The inbuilt player is a 'musicians' player - big buttons, quality speed variation which persists to your next play. Here's another big thing that isn't mentioned very much. You always can see the arrangement on the screen, so you know what you will be playing along to. And it's in musician's language which is just what you want. Great. Most of my tracks I haven't had to arrange as I've found one using the inbuilt search feature. I've arranged a couple though and it was so easy. There really isn't anything else like this. Super simply arranging. Great sound. Total Understatement. I just love it - even on my iPod Touch! I play a lot of Latin Rhythms and they have them all. And they sound so authentic. I totally recommend this App to people who care about music and sound and aren't looking for a flashing-lights-toy, but rather something that will satisfy for the rest of your life. Real Quality is so rare, but this is a wolf in sheep's clothing.

A musician's arranger that talks your language

      Ele' - Melbourne, Australia.  Plays piano.  Like jazz, blues and latin. 

Ele' P

A MUSICIAN'S ARRANGER - That's what I call this App. Why? Because the problem with everything else I've seen is that we musician's use one language when we speak of our arrangements and the App always speaks another language. When you sit down with your buddy musos and someone calls a tune, what do you say? You might say let's play this or that tune, and if you've all played it together before everyone will know how it is arranged. But if it is not a tune you've all played together before, what then? I expect the leader will call the tempo to be used - medium-fast say and perhaps the feel also - Bossa or Reggae or whatever and whether there'll be an intro or you go straight in from the top. You might agree on the number of choruses then as well and perhaps the order of solos as well. Well, it is that sort of language you want from your backing tracks as well. You want to know if there's an intro and if so how long it is. You want to know the number of choruses, so you decide on the solos etc. and you'll want to know about the tempo and the rhythmic style. That's the sort of information you get with this App and it's how you 'arrange' your tracks as well - in musician's language - not in flashing lights and weird controls - just plain English musician's arrangement language. As you scroll through the list of tracks, each track has its arrangement spelt out like that, for example - 8-bars intro, 6 choruses of 16-bar tune with a 4-bar ending using this rhythm at that tempo. That makes sense to me and other musicians and is the sort of language that would be used between us as we play together. That's why I call this App a 'musicians' arranger.

Song Rhythm Tracks

Song Rhythm Tracks

Song Rhythm Tracks are a new type of backing track composed entirely of rhythmic backing (no melody or harmony) arranged to the musical form of the song — it’s “songform”. These tracks are complete performances like one gets from a professional drummer. They have a count-in, introduction section, choruses and characteristic endings, framed by fills showing where sections start and end. Even musical bridges and middle choruses have higher intensity where appropriate to the style.  Things are kept simple by doing away with the traditional arranger’s interface. One can select a track in under 30 seconds - under 15 seconds once one gets the hang of it.

The App’s player has tempo adjustment and a facility to sequence the tracks for your gig or jam session. It is for musicians of all abilities. New musicians use the App to provide an accompaniment to songs. They get a rhythm that is sympathetic so they learn to keep time, get into the groove and internalise the song’s musical structure – All this while enjoying engaging and inspiring rhythms. Gigging musicians catalogue their backing into setlists and use it to guide performance. Having quality rhythmic backing, with a setlist facility and a musician’s player, all in the one App is so convenient one finds oneself using this rhythmic backing more and more.

Song Rhythm Tracks are truly high-quality rhythmic backing that is convenient to select and play. You are not going to get tired of these backing tracks. You are not going to have to sequence anything. You will find that the player and setlist’s user interface encourages continued use.  You will get to appreciate the form of your songs more and you might include these tracks into your own single and album releases. Don’t be put off by experiences with other mobile drumming Apps. Song Rhythm Tracks are something different.

Whether you are learning a new tune, jamming, gigging or cutting your latest album, this Song Rhythm Tracks provides a solution.

Check out samples of the audio at Alive Drumming’s Samples page

Check out these articles from Alive Drumming that give further insights into the thinking behind the product,

“How to practice, then how to jam”

“When to work on your rhythm?”

“Why songform with rhythm tracks?”

Download the Song Rhythm Tracks App on the Apple App Store

Try Alive Drumming’s sampler apps to sample previously arranged tracks of popular tunes. It is then easy to use the app to adjust these to your practice and performance requirements. All the sampler apps are the same Song Rhythm Tracks app but with the included sample tracks.

Jazz and Blues Sampler

Afro-Cuban Sampler

Country Music Sampler

#arranger #backing music #innovator #Song Rhythm Tracks #usability #Alive Drumming #iOS App - Song Rhythm Tracks #Musicianship #Practice #Rhythmic Styles #SRT iOS App'