Soul Train

Hi all,

Here is my latest piece, Soul Train. I hope you enjoy it.
Comments are welcome.

Good listening!

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Great arrangement. Nice tune! Thanks.

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Thank @BJ_Dobbs, Iā€™m glad you liked the piece.

Have a nice day!

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Thatā€™s a nice groove on a nice arrangement, really enjoyed it. Lovely synth playing (?). How did you do the horns?

Steve.

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Thank you Steve for taking the time to listen to the piece, also for these kind comments.

The sound of the saxophone comes from two Image Sounds libraries (https://www.imagesounds.com/), Saxophone 1 and 2. From the sequences played by a real saxophonist (715 loops of 2 to 4 measures), I made a montage of a melody that I had in mind. However, I could deny that certain loops inspired me.

This melody uses 30 audio sequences (loops) and more than 127 cuts or slices. No sequence is used in its entirety, Sometimes itā€™s just one note or two of a sequence. I tried to respect saxophone playing as much as possible. The majority of sequences do not use the musical mode despite the differences in tempo.

This is the second time that I have used libraries from this company to create melodies. Lacking real instrumentalists at my disposal, I found that these sound banks played by professional musicians offered a more than interesting alternative. Itā€™s a lot of work, but Iā€™m still happy with the result.

I recently purchased the ā€œHarmonicaā€ sample library and it sounds really good. I would love to find a place for it in one of my next pieces.

Once again thank you!

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Thatā€™s a very good job with the horn loops :+1:

Steve.

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Good job man :ok_hand:

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Hey Rene, cool Song! I like it!

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Thanks @Viktor_K, I appreciate

Thank you @Stefano7, Iā€™m glad you like it.

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That was a fun listen, plenty going on, nice funky groove.

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Thank you very much @Chubs for taking the time to listen and for the warm comments. I also had a lot of fun making this piece.

Itā€™s really nice!

Thank you @Sullivan

I appreciate you taking the time to listen. Iā€™m glad you liked it.

cool piece of music :musical_score:

Thank you very much @mozizo

Very glad you like it, have a great day!

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really nice! I like it!

Thank you @Luca_Soricetti for taking the time to listen to Soul Train. Have a good day!

Hi Rene,
This was a very cool bit of time travel back to some of the Crusaders like stuff from the late 70ā€™s (or Philly Soul). I get the title.
I particularly was impressed by the keys, drums, and strings. They really caught that ā€œvibeā€ well. Iā€™m primarily a bassist, so just about any synth bass strikes me as synthesized because thereā€™s not the ā€œattackā€ of a note that a real bassist would provide in playing a part. That said, I get why so many people take that synth bass route.
By the way, this is swetch many months later under a new account (jswetch) due to having been frozen out of the swetch one (long story). I just felt compelled to listen and write something because youā€™ve been kind so many times in writing things relating to my posts here.
Take care,
John

Hi John,

When I finished mixing this track, I didnā€™t have a title. Of course, I thought the track had a funky feel to it, probably because of the sax, an Afro-American groove that was heard in the 70s. While doing some research, I came across this title ā€˜Soul Trainā€™ which was an American variety show that was originally aimed at a black audience and promoted mainly African-American soul and rhythm and blues artists, who perform on the set surrounded by dancers.

Because of the funky feel of the track, I simply decided to use the title of the show as the title of my track. I even used the royalty-free logo of the show as an image to associate it with the track on Soundcloud.

Iā€™m glad you enjoyed the keyboard, drum and string tracks. As for the bass, itā€™s a VST that wants to reproduce as faithfully as possible a Bass and the playing specific to the instrument. Itā€™s not perfect, but still pretty good, maybe a more successful mix for the instrument would have highlighted it more.

Anyway, thank you for taking the time to listen and write this comment about this piece.

With pleasure!
RenƩ