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@KylePoehling: Thanks for listening! I used two sample libraries on this particular tune. One is Reason Drum Kits 2.0 from Propellerhead and the other one is a refill from Sonic called SR Reality Drums. @Impromptu: Cheers, that style is really very hard to make it sound real. @Ticktockfool: I know exactly what you mean, but we can't all be Chick Coreas now can we? :D

Thanks for listening, I'm not so sure about the ending myself. Maybe I'll look at it again in the future...

Thanks for listening mate! I will post some more stuff in due time, I'm revamping/recreating my website as of now, so I don't actually have any compositions online. Will follow soon. Cheers! :)

Thanks! I updated the file, now the tune has a proper ending! Hope you enjoy it. It's kind of weird, but I didn't have any other ideas. Please re-download the tune to get the updated version. Thanks! Cheers! :)

Well, some of the changes are not very solid. It's both the harmonic movement and the way the piano player voices them. The melody is quite hectic, and very hard to sing. I'd have to say my biggest gripe is with the harmony. Some of the changes don't really fit with the melody and the soloing is all over the place. Both the piano and guitar players seem to not know where they are in the tune and playing all over the place, not within a certain mode or scale. I'd recommend toning it down a notch. Try writing something more spacious, don't cram 3-4 changes in a bar. Experiment with longer phrases and longer changes (1 per two bars at least). Also, there's no symmetry. The odd form gives for a very unbalanced sound when the tune is this busy harmonically. The flute is flat. The drummer doesn't really swing and uses too much kick drum. There are a lot of things that I don't like with this recording. If it were me, it would be back to the drawing board for this experiment. No disrespect. What do you play?

Hey Doug, thanks for listening! I play everything you hear on there on the keyboards, and sequence them in Propellerhead's Reason. It's how I practice: I create my own rhythm sections, horn sections, arrangements and stuff like that. Funny story about this particular Spain arrangement: I started it a while back and abandoned it because I was pretty much stuck after the keys solo. I had nothing. I was blank. And now, after more than a year, I decided to come up with some drums interlude or something, so I finish the arrangement and present it to people and websites. I know about the snare. I love that sound :toothygrin: I've spent a lot of time researching drums and other instruments I don't play, so when I sequence them - I try to make them sound as realistic as I can. As a real drummer would play, and how a real bass player would play that line, etc. And yeah, I'm a really big fan of Dave Weckl. Also, the drum solo lick starting at 4:18 is my take on one of Antonio Sanchez's lick (Pat Metheny's drummer). He has a couple of DVDs explaining the various things he does... I also realize the ending is really cheesy fading out like that. Next iteration maybe I'll come up with some kind of real ending to the tune. Thanks for listening mate, have a great day! :D

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Hey, thanks for listening! Yeah I kinda felt the drums interlude well, slash solo or whatever, is a bit disconnecting, but I had to find a way to get back in :D And, well the arrangement is piano-centric because this is how I practice actually. Making up my own rhythm section and brass and stuff... Thanks for listening and thoughts! :D

Hey there! I like some of the lines, and writing's good. It would be awesome to hear this played by a real band! Like this, it sounds very square. That's just how MIDI is :D I like some of the solos too, sounding great!

Hey guys, I've been away for a while, had THE worst internet connection, couldn't post that often, but I'd love to share a new tune I wrote with you guys. It's something of a jazz/funk fusion thing, and it's called '7 Is Your Friend' because it goes all over the place. The head is in 7/4 and then you have your 5/8, 6/4 and even 4/4 :P This is basically my effort to learn playing in different time signatures, and it's not a tune to actually be 'released' or anything. It's just how I practice. But anyways, I'd love to share it with you guys: Click to grab! The tune features a percussive head, a short e-piano solo, and a drum interlude just to get back into the last head :D Cheers and let me know what you think! :)

Well, there's no way you can use the .nki files directly into Reason. You can use Reason as a slave for Cubase, Logic, whatever, through Rewire. Then you can set up channels from Reason into your favorite DAW.

Thanks for listening! @Robin, yeah I'll check into that! @Franzman: Thanks a lot!

Thanks for listening you guys! @Robin: Can you recommend that Dave Holland recording? I haven't been following his work, not a fan actually... Yeah, that's me on the rhodes, actually, that's me on everything... I don't have a score, unfortunately, I just plugged in my stage piano through MIDI into Reason and started playing and sequencing... @Gardener: Thanks mate, glad you enjoyed it! Gotta love the Rhodes! :D

Thanks for listening! I'm guessing the piece is either that bad, or out of the 55 people reading this, it's just you who would want to listen and maybe post a couple of words.. Strange, actually..

Well, just to respond to your thoughts, Reason's not all about "synths and breakbeats". I've been doing orchestral work and jazz arrangements for years in Reason. And yes, you can change time signatures and tempo on the fly. Since v4. What would a "big one" be?