A Cimma

[alfstone]

...for kumale...  

I had to reduce the quality (kbps) of the mp3, since it was bigger the 5 Meg, I hope it will sound good enough.

Fo those who don't know Italian Muisc, "A Cimma" was written by the great Italian singer/songwriter Fabrizio De Andre' in the Eighties. It's about a mysterious (for me) recipe of Genoan cooking.

Myself on Seagull acoustic guitar. The tuning is DGDGBE. Backing tracks by Band-in-a-Box and Steinberg Sequel.

[Oldrottenhead]

i am absolutely loving this really great track. did you create your own backing tracks too?

[alfstone]

i am absolutely loving this really great track. did you create your own backing tracks too?

You are very kind, thanks a lot! Yes, I did everything. Probably the strangest choice is putting inside an Italian song a sitar, some Indian dhol drums and a Scottish drum band, but I think that if you think to make a cover you anyway should play it in a different way from the original...otherwise, better to listen to the original tune!

Thanks again, and congrats for your wonderful music, oldrottenhead! I've listened to really great music by you.

[Oldrottenhead]

knowing you did this all on your own makes this all the more inspiring, it must have been the scottish drum band that plucked at my heart strings.
bravo e pozzo - fatti

[Geir]

This is really wonderful music !!!

Lovely soundscape and great performance!

Music sees no borders ...... I love the arrangement you've made on this.

[lg]

I am in love with your tone here Alf!
What a wonderful performance!

LG

[tonyblue]

Very very COOL
I love the feeling of the music
tonyblue

[tonyblue]

Hi Alf,
What is "a band in a box", and how long did it take you to record this master peice.
I'm totaly sick that I can not ever hope to sound like this, but it would not stop me trying
TonyBlue

[Gary F]

 Very,very nice performance!!! Great playing!!! And well produced!!!

                                       Gary

[alfstone]

Hi Alf,
What is "a band in a box", and how long did it take you to record this master peice.
I'm totaly sick that I can not ever hope to sound like this, but it would not stop me trying
TonyBlue

Tony and you all, thank you, you all are very kind!

Tony, Band-in-a-Box is a wonderful software. With it you may create easily backing tracks for all your needs. Very simple to use but rich of lots of great features.

You may find whatever you need to know about BIAB here:

http://www.pgmusic.com/index.html

Going back to A Cimma, first I created with Band-in-a-Box the basic backing track; since BIAB works with MIDI, I rendered the MIDI tracks into audio. Then, I added the rhythm loops with Steinberg Sequel: this way I had obtained the "main" backing track.

Then, I added my own guitar tracks. I've forgotten to say that I made the synth and electric guitar parts with my Godin Freeway, using the VG-99.

Everything in 3 or 4 days, a couple of hours a day (as a family doctor, I don't have much free time...). I've recorded all the tracks with the Boss BR-600, but after recording, I prefer doing the final job of editing, mixing and mastering on the PC. For this, I use Adobe Audition 3 and T-Racks 24 for the final mixing.