Aludog

Come and get your second invention here: http://customsforge.com/page/customsforge_rs_2014_cdlc.html/_/pc-enabled-rs-2014-cdlc/invention-2-in-c-minor-r19118

 

Careful, it's hot! :lol:

Will you do "Toccata and Fugue in Dm"? Because I was already working on it.

No, only the inventions, like it says in the OP. Looking forward to your release though.

The first invention is out now. Enjoy, guys.

Here's some historic information about Bach's inventions and sinfonias, in case you're interested: http://www.mu.qub.ac.uk/tomita/essay/inventions.html

Hey guys,

 

This year I've got something special for you. No christmas themed release but instead a finger warming christmas present for everyone who likes classical music, especially of the Baroque era and master composer Johann Sebastian Bach.

 

Starting tomorrow, I'll release Bach's inventions for two voices, one each day for 15 days, so that at the end, you'll have a complete set of 15 inventions, even if you'll need way longer to master them, trust me.

 

Each will be a straight forward arrangement of the two voices for Guitar (Treble Staff) and Bass (Bass Staff) at 65 bpm. Because they were composed as exercises, Bach didn't prescribe a specific tempo and interpretations vary from musician to musician, so I opted for what felt natural to me and isn't so slow that it gets boring or so fast that it becomes too challenging.

The actual arrangements are very true to the original sheet music; in fact, I only had to change a few small sections on the bass part to make them playable in standard tuning. The audio comes directly from GP because I don't have the time to mess with my DAW now.

 

I'm still not done with all the arrangements and time will be short the next few days but I'll keep working on them in my spare time, so I should manage to stick to my schedule. I won't be having much time for extensive testing but I already have a working setup and since there won't be any changes to my workflow, there won't be much need for testing.

 

I hope you're looking forward to this as much as me and find some time to enjoy these between all the upcoming festivities.

 

Merry christmas, everyone, and a happy new year. :D  :gift:

 

Release list:

 

Day 1: Invention 1 (in C Major)

Day 2: Invention 2 (in C Minor)

Day 3: Invention 3 (in D Major)

Day 4: Invention 4 (in D Minor)

Day 5: Invention 5 (in Eb Major)

Day 6: Invention 6 (in E Major)

Day 7: Invention 7 (in E Minor)

Day 8: Invention 8 (in F Major)

I'm feeling festive at the moment, and as someone put in a request for Band Aid's Do They Know It's Christmas, I thought I'd oblige. Now if only a) I could create a tab for "Christmas Wrapping" by The Waitresses or b ) some kind soul here would do it - I have requested it, honest, then I'd be a happy bunny.

After you wrote this, I looked up the song (because I didn't know it) and as was to be expected, it has an awesome bass line. Later that day I heard the song in the background of the christmas episode of "Quantico" and I thought "That can't be coincidence." So, I kind of wanted to transcribe the bass part but I just can't find the time because I have something else planned for christmas that takes priority but I put it on my list for next christmas. :D

Well, I just worked it out real quick.

 

Here's the fill:

 

http://i.imgur.com/VW0EEx5l.jpg

 

I think that should be close enough but with a speed like that the notes become very short and percussive, so it's hard to tell if it's totally correct.

 

Regarding the outro, I recommend just putting an E5 chord there and mark it with tremolo, like so:

 

http://i.imgur.com/VbgerYFl.jpg

 

He mostly plays the E and it's octave but strums the B as well at some point and at the very end he plays the whole chord once and slides down shortly to end the track.

 

I hope that helps. Let me know if you need any more help.

@@Chicco - Had a look at some Nevermore tabs again, and found some more that are on 6 string, plus a few others that should be workable with pitch-shifting. Won't promise any particular songs since you can always find out tabs are crappy late into the project, but there should be at least a few that work out.

 

 

On Working Man I'm now down through the beginning of the instrumental section and from the end of the instrumental section through to the very end of the outro. The unison riffs in the instrumental sections are probably OK now, too, but I haven't checked them carefully. I think I can handle most of the instrumental section, but a couple of parts that I'm not sure I can get myself are

-The high fill between 2:47 and 2:48 of the isolated bass audio. It's pretty damn quick (10 notes in that second) and I'm not sure I can cheat my way using Audacity to plot the spectrum since it needs a certain amount (though maybe I can have Audacity change the tempo to stretch each note out sufficiently).

-The very end of the outro (7:05-7:13 or so). Notes ringing out make it a little hard for me to figure out what's going on.

If someone could help with those (@@Aludog? @?) I should be able to handle the rest.

I sure can take a look. With the isolated audio it shouldn't take too long. Could you send me the GP file you are using, so I don't have to put it into a separate one?

well you are putting the product they sale up for free so it's the least they can do to pay you back...

True enough. Put that way, they should actually pay me a small fee as well.

If you upload a new tab to Ultimate guitar you get Pro for free :P

Exactly. No point in paying for that shit if they basically throw it at you. :D

Still, if you upload enough and get some good ratings you can get on their nice list (like me this year). They asked me for my mailing address and told me I'd get a gift for christmas. Let's see if it arrives and what it is. Could be shit as well... or Anthrax (but not the band). :lol:

Another awesome addition, @@albatross213. Thanks.

Regarding Gentle Giant, I would also recommend blazemonger.com which is an awesome fan site that also has a lot of midi files and text tabs: http://www.blazemonger.com/GG/Music_and_MIDI_files.

You also reminded me that I tried my hands on Beardfish's "South Of The Border" a long time ago but had trouble with the guitar parts and didn't continue. I also remember that the bass part wasn't always spot on, so I would have needed to correct a lot. I think I'll work on it again some time but I also want to transcribe "Sleeping in Traffic" sooner or later. To make it short: Beardfish is on my list for sure.

for down and upstrokes I would prefer n v n v n v n v as they're common signs for strumming.

Yeah, that works too but one has to know how the actual score markings look to understand them. Maybe a less intuitive but still relevant alternative.

Thanks for the list. This was long overdue. Just goes to show how much is still missing from some of the best progressive rock bands. Hard to believe, for example, that there are no Kansas tracks apart from the official ones or even worse, that Frank Zappa has barely been touched even though his oeuvre is so massive and tabs are readily available. Also, where's Caravan? and what about more Camel?

I really gotta do it all by myself, don't I? :lol:

Regarding strum pattern notation: a simple U for up and D for down suffices and is very common. The sync problem might be the bigger issue.

Strum patterns for short riffs or chord progressions might still be easier to figure out from sheet music though (as are many other things), so I would prioritize the provision of sheet music with every RS exercise, which still isn't all that common.

I have a suggestion. I've only tried a few of these exercises, so some might do this, but none of the ones I've tried.

 

Why not give extra hints within the track, either by adding a section before the exercise, talking and/or using the lyrics track to give extra information on strumming patterns (down, up, up, down, up...) or pointing out difficulties or just the intention of the exercise? This would make it more of a lesson than an exercise.

 

Are there any that does this? Creators and users reading this, what do you think?

In general, I agree that this can be useful in some instances (i.e. for displaying chord progressions over which to solo or play bass), but I actually prefer providing sheet music with the exercises where everything is marked appropriately and has all the extra info not displayed in RS. This isn't only easier to read and understand but can be used for practice outside of RS as well.

The following is a list of customs that I consider to be in the genres of Afrobeat, a term coined by nigerian musician Fela Kuti who's music I cover extensively with my own customs, and Highlife, a genre that was developed in Ghana and combines, similar to Afrobeat, traditional african music with western music. Both genre's are closely related to each other, so it's not always easy to tell them apart. I won't try to draw a distinction between both, mainly because I'm not an expert on the matter and it's handier to cover both in a single thread anyway. Both genre's are mainly centered around Ghana and Nigeria and therefore most famous artists of these particular genres come from those two countries. Through the relation with western music though there's also quite a few western musicians who have been influenced by Afrobeat/Highlife and have started making music in a similar vein, so those had an impact on popularizing the genres as well and should therefore be covered in this thread.

 

I already have a special discography project for Fela Kuti, so in this thread I will only cover customs that are from other artists (of which there aren't many yet available for RS).

 

Artists (in alphabetical order):

 

Fela Kuti - see Fela Kuti Discography Project

 

Hugh Masekela - You Told Your Mama Not To Come

Hugh Masekela & Hedzoleh Soundz - Kaa Ye Oya

Hugh Masekela & The Union Of South Africa - Dyambo

"Why Black Man Dey Suffer" is done. For the first time there's also guitar parts, so if any of you guitarists wanted to play some Fela then have at it now. :D

Afrobeat is usually classified as a union of western and african music, mainly Funk and Highlife. Fela himself, who basically invented and popularized the genre, referred to James Brown as a big influence, so Funk is definitely part of the discussion (at least for me) but I see your point. It can't hurt to make a separate list because I have more than Fela Kuti planned. There's some seriously great stuff from other african artists from around the same time. I may throw Highlife into the mix as well and put it on the same list. :D

I'll do an Afrobeat list for sure. Should be relatively short since I am basically the only one releasing Afrobeat tracks. :lol:

I could probably do a Funk list as well because that one's relatively clear cut and closely related to Afrobeat. Or maybe Afrobeat fits better as a subgenre of Funk? What do you guys think?

Should I move this to the new genres area?

Yep. That would be a good idea.

@ @@Aludog - I wasn't trying to defend anything - just pointing out that the ideal scenario can't happen immediately, and that a work around was possible within the existing tools available.

 

Apologies for not reading the entire thread fully - I was skimming - If I'd have noticed the suggested note about the workshop option, I'd have asked Tein to open it up earlier :-)

It's fine. It just seemed you were avoiding to address the easiest of all temporary solutions on purpose. What that purpose might have been eluded me, so I was asking directly. :D

 

So I hear with the new Toolkit update you do not have to use Wwise anymore, anyone know the process or steps for this?

 

Been like that for... at least a few months, though for a while it was kind of buggy (preview audio was sped up). So long as you have Wwise installed and you point the toolkit to guitar.ogg (you don't even need to make a .wav anymore! You can use the .wav instead if you prefer, though.) when you add the audio file, the Toolkit should take care of the rest. It takes a bit of time, but it's pretty much entirely automated and much less annoying than using Wwise.

 

Been using it for about half a year now, I guess. The stable version of the toolkit didn't change for a long time while the beta version was constantly worked on, so thats probably why some of you didn't realize what's been happening. Time to catch up, I say. :D

 

@ I'm totally on your side as well, if it's any consolation. We should definitely try to make it work.

 

We know this isn't the ideal - Dev time to work on the search functions has kind of tanked, but you can actually already do something - vaguely - like what is being requested already, so long as the CDLC post was tagged as the genre.

 

http://customsforge.com/index.php?app=core&module=search&search_in=forums

 

Look at the second main box there, enter "jazz" in the "find tags" area, select "Submitted CDLC" as the forum to search and you'll get 30 results.

 

True but what about a "Genres" section in the "Workshop" area like @ suggested? Wouldn't that be a good idea or is there some reason that your not talking about that?

Shouldn't be difficult to set up and would be a great place to put all those genre threads that are already cluttering up other places of the forum.

@ I'm totally on your side as well, if it's any consolation. We should definitely try to make it work.

 

I forgot to say that I have a Stanley Clarke song book which means I have tabs for this song that you could use to check against the GP file you used. You interested?

 

 

If it's the Hal Leonard book, that's the tab I've used  :) . I didn't find it particularly easy to read - no bar numbers, fret numbers with lines through them etc. Poor workmen always blame their tools, but I have seen better tab books.

Oh, I see and yeah, I agree: I've seen better tab books as well but it's a good place to start.