August 2024 challenge Alan L

[Alan L]

This challenge seemed like a good excuse for some multi tracking, and I had fun with this one!

Wrote my main riff for unison bass and guitar, then the guitar branches out for counter melody and solo, and then returns to the main riff.

Recorded on GarageBand using the AI drummer (which is great,) Tele bridge pickup into a Marshall sim and PJ bass into a Mesa sim.

Thanks for listening!

[charjo]

Love the main riff and how everything kept coming back to it. Nicely done, Alan.
My grandson just started a Montessori JK, so far so good.
John

[Bill]

Great groove Alan! Enjoyed the interplay between bass and guitar you put in here. It’s amazing the power in garage band, and that it’s bundled in with the Mac stuff!

[Laurel C]

It sounds fun too and pretty much party mode. Creatively put together with a feel good main riff. That’s making music. Top notch.

[Mark T]

What a fantastic groove, Alan – really well played and mixed. Thoroughly enjoyed that 👍🎶😎

[Don Patton jr]

Very nice Alan!
Just the right amount of distortion in your guitar and amp setting…great motif 🎵🎶👍

Don P

[John H]

Wow!!
This is fantastic. Great groove and tone. MASTERCLASS Alan!

JH

[Mike W]

Excellent rendition of a great composition, Alan. Even if you hadn’t mentioned it, I could tell that you had fun with it – your enjoyment comes through.

[Jennifer D]

Couldn’t help nodding my head to that one Alan! Wow!

[Guido]

Wow, brilliant composition with a very catching groove, Alan! Those lines of bass and guitar complement each other so beautifully: a top-notch and catchy piece of music, beautifully crafted and played!

Guido

[Manfred M]

Your riff jam really packs a punch, Alan. Great groove, sharp sounding guitar and a pulsating bass. And so perfectly put together. That was fun!

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[Michael L]

Hey Alan, I love the power in your main riff… the driving bass sound. Really captures the genera and gets the blood flowing. Excellent!

[JoeD1]

Wow Alan, I thought I was listening to Gov’t Mule! Seriously well done! Had a hard foot stomping driving rhythm!

Joe

The sight of a touch, or the scent of a sound,
Or the strength of an Oak with roots deep in the ground.
--Graeme Edge

[Paul S.]

That clipped staccato style is really cool. The bass is even cooler. And this challenge does apparently lend itself to pieces supported by Garage Band and similar software. Love it.

[AndréM]

Really nice multi tasking.
Love the bass riff.
Great composition.

AndréM

AndréM

[Liam Innes]

Fantastic!

This is right up my street and that main riff kills!

Really tight bass groove gave it the foundation it needed.

Loved it well done.

Liam.

“We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams. “

[JoLa]

Ohh, that was superb! Pro sounding production and super catchy driving rhythm, hard to stay still listening to it! I would never suspect that sound was from a telecaster, so thank you for including the setup description, quite amazing!

🎸JoLa

[Dieter]

Fine rocky composition.

Dieter

[Tremelow]

Mission accomplished, Alan! Unwantingly, my head started bopping after the first few notes. Great idea adding a bass and guitar. I don’t even understand what a counter melody is, but that’s why I’m here: to learn.

[Bob Utberg]

Way to go Alan! Reminds me of Born Under a Bad Sign in the style of Cream. Your tone is superb like Eric did on that track. Jack Bruce is smiling too with that awesome bass line! Well done
Bob

Bob U. (aka Bobby Ut)

[James B]

Excellent creative challenge response, Alan. Love the way you put it together and played it. Great arrangement.

James

[Martin W]

Cool groove and cleverly put together with the different layers , the bass works well as a solid foundation and the tele compliments fully with a fine tone from the bridge pick up .

Martin

[Werner]

Wow! That´s a Rock riff you created!!! I can literally see the band on stage in front of a screaming crowd. Great idea, superbly done.

Werner

[Gary W]

Loved it! Great fun and very catchy. Great tone, well put together. Well played sir!

Gary

[Tom D]

That is absolutely cool as it can be Alan! Your experience and expertise in creating bass grooves is in full evidence. Love how you played that in unison, then took the bass and guitar onto separate and complementary parts, and then back to the unison. Very nice. The sustain on the first note in the riff also gets your attention! I’ve been listening to Mark Sandman and Morpine again recently – I really like his 2 string bass work and the band even though they don’t use guitars:-). You probably know them (90’s band) but if not might be worth a listen. Rock on, Tom

[Jeff]

\m/ rock on my friend!

Too old for rock and roll but too young to die

[Alan O]

Very cool groove and rockin’!! Love the tone you are getting out that telecaster. I use GarageBand as well and need to check out AI Drummer. Sounded great!!

Alan

[sciencefiction]

Wow, Alan, this was fantastic! Man, you really rocked this out. Really unique composition with several interesting parts. Right after that opening riff, there was a sort of a change — first the chords, and then at 0:24 with the first three notes, I though I was listening to the the group “Yes” all of a sudden. Great guitar tone. Very cool!
Larry

[Martyn in France]

Love the groove Alan, had my foot tapping from the very start. And the guitar tone is excellent.
Martyn

[Scott M]

Fantastic production built around the riff and delivered with killer tone, you completely crushed this challenge! Well done Alan.

Scott

[Pap]

Alan, that was really a cool modern day rock. I like the stops…gave it a funk vibe. Really creative , nice work. Pap

[Dermot M]

Hi Alan.

Great rock vibe there – had my foot tapping along.

Also a good production – something I would like to get better at my self. I have Ableton and it’s a bit of a learning curve. 😉

This was great. Thanks.

Dermot.

[Jonathan Amos]

Great! I’ve recently bought a bass guitar and this is a good example of how much it adds to the sound.

Jonathan Amos, Matsuyama, Japan

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