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Hi friends, it's been awhile since my last post. Now that I'm off for the summer I might be able to be more prolific. Here's the new Bossa tune Sundown Light

Style is ZZBOSSA.STY (Bossa Nova style)
PianoCustom Synth is Hi-Q 001 01 Piano, Acoustic, Grand SampleTank.tgs
MelodyCustom Synth is Synth/Plugin Loaded
Style MIDI Instruments are : Acoustic Piano (1),
RealTracks in song: 1958:Bass, Baby, Guajira Ev 120
MIDI SuperTracks in song: ~~1893:Piano, Rhythm Bossa Ev 085
RealTracks in song: 473:Bass, Acoustic, Soloist Bossa Ev 140
RealTracks in song: ~2292:Horn Section, Rhythm Pop Ev 130
RealTracks in song: 2142:Sax, Baritone, Soloist BossaGary Ev 140
RealDrums in Song: BossaLewis^02-a:Brushes HiHat , b:SdStckHH

Comments always wanted and appreciate it, (that's how we learn).

Enjoy

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Nice tune, Mike. Good arrangement and mix.

A mellow listen.

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I finally got some time to listen to some songs.

As usual another excellent blend and choice of MIDI and RTs from Mike.

I really enjoyed this one!


PS I see a keyboard in the background of your Soundcloud picture. Are you playing the leads on this?


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Nice. A very pleasant listen.


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Most enjoyable and relaxing.
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Thanks for the listen guys, Mario, no, that background stuff is mostly for show, do not play keyboard per se, just use it mostly to step record and modify in some way midi stuff. My instrument of choice has always been the drums and latin percussion, although I'm in a band no more, so I create music with BB and other software and give tips on drum playing to my grandson who's learning how to play.

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Hey Mike.

Great track. I like the way you've captured such a good live band sound.

What really made it for me was the bass solo - just fabulous.

Very atmospheric track.

ROG.

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Hi Mike,

very smooth. Good choice of RTs and
nice arrangement. Liked the bass solo, too.
Enjoyable listen.

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Mike, A great mix. Sounds Fantastic! You surely have a handle on Latin Jazz. Really enjoyable listen. Tom

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A nice pleasant track, you really have latin nailed. I could imagine a Santana guitar fitting in there.


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As ROG said "Very atmospheric track."
Your mixes are superb. With this style
there is a lot going on and you are very
good at giving each track it's place. Nothing
steps on each other and the soundscape
is outstanding. As a bass player it is great
to hear a solo!!

Enjoyed it.

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Sweet stuff! cool


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Well, is truly a pleasure to hear from you all, all my thanks to Rog,Guenter, Tom, Chris,J&B and Ice. I really appreciate all of your comments and the time to listen to my tunes. A true treat.

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Hi, Mike !

Love this truly much !

You are the master of
bossa without no doubt !

Cheers
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Very sweet tune Mike!! Just rolls along so nicely. Puts me in the mood for a beach and a nice rum drink. Very nicely put together. You've created a very organic sound here. I love the upright solo as well. Great stuff!! Take care. Greg

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Many jazz songs were written by taking the chord changes of an existing song and writing a new melody to those chord changes.

The new song is a "contrafact" of the existing tune.

Jazz Contrafacts WIKI

What you've done here sounds like a nice contrafact of the theme to Black Orpheus (Manhã De Carnaval).

Manha De Carnaval


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Mike,
As Tom writes
Quote:
you surely have a handle on Latin Jazz.
so true!

A very enjoyable listen

Alyn

ps thanks Robmusic for the links about contrafacts, interesting reading.

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Hey Dani, nice to hear from you my friend! Thanks for the comments, you're too kind.
Also thanks to all of you whom have taken the time to listen to my tune. As far as the contrafact, it is true that a lot of jazz tunes are created using an existing chord progression,then again not exclusive to jazz, many latin very well known songs are created that way too. In this case I'm not going to argue whether this is the case but no denying that it happens to maybe share some similarities by that compo0sed by Luiz Bonfá for the movie. In any case I'm glad you all liked it.

Mike B.

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