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Well, after many hours of making the backing track, recording vocals (each part triple-tracked), and mixing, it's done. This was a lot of work, fun, but a lot of work. I'm not a natural singer, so I'm not ashamed to say I put in a lot of effort on the vocals (and my voice started to give-up by the 3rd verse as it's right at the limit of my range), but no autotune was used. There's a guitar solo after the second verse; that was the easy part. Hope you dig it.

PS - see if you can hear some classic dialog nuggets I mixed into the "crowd" at the end ;).
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Well done Joe, singing sounds good too. Did you do the bass part as well?
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here is a transcription of AJ's bassline

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I thoroughly enjoyed that :)
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jvpp wrote:Well done Joe, singing sounds good too. Did you do the bass part as well?
Cheers, mate. I can play the bass line, and as much as I'd like to say I did, no, I did it on the computer. I found a really good bass patch that sounded close enough to a real bass that I just used it instead.
foal30 wrote:here is a transcription of AJ's bassline

nice work Sustainz
Cheers! Here's the score I used. His transcriptions are super accurate and detailed.
http://www.grantobrien.co.uk/images/sam ... iScore.pdf
Olderama wrote:I thoroughly enjoyed that :)
Glad you dug it. It's such a fun tune with bounce and swing!
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Wow!
Great jobs
This is one of my all time favorite albums
Getting those vocal harmonies worked out alone is no mean feat
Really cool.
Now for the rest of the album....

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StrummersOfThunder wrote:Wow!
Great jobs
This is one of my all time favorite albums
Getting those vocal harmonies worked out alone is no mean feat
Really cool.
Now for the rest of the album....
Cheers! Yeah, the vocals were the real challenge on this one, and just production-wise it's so daunting - Donald Fagen, mighty big shoes to fill. It's one of my favorite albums, too, start to finish. I've got scores for a few others on the album, so we'll see.
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PS - see if you can hear some classic dialog nuggets I mixed into the "crowd" at the end ;).
Go on, tell us. I listen to both your take and the original and then I realised how complex it all is together. But I don't know what nuggets I should be hearing.
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Sustainz wrote:
StrummersOfThunder wrote:Wow!
Great jobs
This is one of my all time favorite albums
Getting those vocal harmonies worked out alone is no mean feat
Really cool.
Now for the rest of the album....
Cheers! Yeah, the vocals were the real challenge on this one, and just production-wise it's so daunting - Donald Fagen, mighty big shoes to fill. It's one of my favorite albums, too, start to finish. I've got scores for a few others on the album, so we'll see.
Cool
Would love to get copies of those scores if possible ??

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jvpp wrote:
PS - see if you can hear some classic dialog nuggets I mixed into the "crowd" at the end ;).
Go on, tell us. I listen to both your take and the original and then I realised how complex it all is together. But I don't know what nuggets I should be hearing.
No worries. I started with just a generic crowd sound f/x mix I found on Youtube, and then mixed these in just for fun.

At 3:45, hard panned L, the opening bit from Marvin Gaye's "What's Goin' On".

At 3:56, hard panned R is the classic "In Paris, you know what they call a Quarter Pounder?...A Royale with Cheese..." dialog between Travolta and Sam Jackson in Pulp Fiction.

At 4:27, hard panned L is the "it's just the normal noises in here" from that bit of random stuff at the beginning of the album version of Tom Petty's "Even the Losers."
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StrummersOfThunder wrote:Cool
Would love to get copies of those scores if possible ??
Absolutely, mate.

http://www.grantobrien.co.uk/samples/pi ... scriptions

His transcriptions are super accurate and detailed. I used his "Ruby" transcription for my little project. You'll see he's got a few other songs from that album and further down the page quite a few Steely Dan transcriptions which I've played through, and they're right on the money, too.
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Sustainz wrote:
StrummersOfThunder wrote:Cool
Would love to get copies of those scores if possible ??
Absolutely, mate.

http://www.grantobrien.co.uk/samples/pi ... scriptions

His transcriptions are super accurate and detailed. I used his "Ruby" transcription for my little project. You'll see he's got a few other songs from that album and further down the page quite a few Steely Dan transcriptions which I've played through, and they're right on the money, too.
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Sustainz wrote:
StrummersOfThunder wrote:Cool
Would love to get copies of those scores if possible ??
Absolutely, mate.

http://www.grantobrien.co.uk/samples/pi ... scriptions
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You guys can read that language?
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Its just greek isn't it?

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Bg wrote:Its just greek isn't it?
Slowly digesting my way thru "All about Music Theory" by Mark Harrison. I thought i was learning something but then looking at those score prescriptions it is all Mr Gobbel D. Gook for me.

Great respect for yous dudes who can just play that while sight reading.
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