Ok, I was fooling around with the drums on the BK7M looking for some semi-jazz/groove patterns to practice to. I have come to like them (BK drums) even more than my Alesis DM10 Pro electronic drum kit; in fact, I have even started to use it as a sound source for the kit about 50% of the time.

I also love 60's-style 'fatback' organ, which is loosely a very simple blues-type bassline coupled with a kind of 'back-beat' drums to form a kind of 'pocket' type groove. The BK7M has several good drum styles for this, along with good ootb drum voices. I was just noodlin' around on my organ (KeyB Duo MK111) and decided to record an example. I overdubbed some guitar from the T2 (Jazz Guitar) and horns from the BK7m. Just noodlin' but based loosely on the tune 'Summertime'. A few clunkers since I'm way too lazy to go back and correct anything.

Just posted it as an example of how good (and easy) Arrangers can be as stand-alone drum machines and/or sound modules for solo voices. I was too lazy to put a compressor on it so you'll need to listen through headphones or a set of monitors to catch the bass, which is key to the style. And yeah, I know it's in Dm instead of Am, but I was playing 'Feeling Good' or something and just sort of migrated into it.

chas

https://app.box.com/s/7lwdtg0rbwnvndrc73hm