"first off what is a Midi? "
Oh man, I just knew somebody would ask that one day
"as a OMB why aren't You singing & playing?"
Long story, hopefully here's the short answer. I'm primarily an instrumentalist, being a trumpet, sax, drums and keyboard player, although lately mostly just keyboard. That's what interests me, that's what I listen to and for.
Secondly when my voice changed it seems I was always in the cracks. Also I played trumpet and heard everything higher.
Now the interesting thing is now that I'm working with a good singer and listening to the recording we made and also listening to mp3's of the music we are going to do, I am forced to listen to the vocals and I find myself being able to sing reasonably almost passable even now. Jen might disagree with that
Previously, as an instrumentalist, I would block out the words of the singer and only listen to their voice as an instrument. Paying attention to inflection and feeling. Still the most important part of it. I think a good singer could sound good singing peas and carrots, peas and carrots or going la la la, if they've got the feel and inflection.
Of course being a trumpet player I also used to view singers and sax players as a time to rest the lip
I may test it out now that I am getting it in my head, and this surprises me. I noticed I am pretty much singing on pitch. I would prefer a different voice, say, Sinatra or something like that. I also could tend to be less critical of my singing and playing for that matter, because of the large number of people I hear sing and probably shouldn't be
"what kind of audiences are you playing for now that would require a song like Purple Rain "
Good question. I first heard that about 2 days before our 1st gig. I thought what kind of place am I going to play in for that to go over, besides wondering how I'd pull that off on the keyboard. Well, thankfully we didn't play it that night.
At first I didn't think there was any form to it, but the more I listen, it's really not a bad tune, and the chord structure isn't much different than the concept of the Blue Moon progression.
It will be interesting to experiment with this song and make it my/our own.
As far as what kind of audience, surprisingly it was a ritzy resort club, who when I walked in was playing R & B piped in.
" And finally please post a few more songs for us to listen like this prince tune interested in hearing your rendition of it or any others as well"
I will be posting more demos of the duo and me doing solo as time permits. I've got a couple of the duo songs up already. Recorded live performed for the very first time. It seems almost all of the duo recordings sound reasonably good enough for a client to hear if needed and get an idea of what we sound like and to see if that's what they would want.
Chow
Scott
www.ScottLMusic.com
