Post #522561 by tiki mick on Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:35 AM

The sound of a the fender rhodes electric Piano is a keyboard, but the piano sound is a real acoustic piano. (if there are string sounds anywhere, those are all keyboard, of course) All the percussion is real, and it's upright bass you are hearing (electric bass on "Muito E Voltando") plus nylon string acoustic guitars and some electric guitars.

The most fun I had though, was playing mandolin on "Roly Poly" (and old Bob Will's tune)which also has my Telecaster guitar on it.

All was done the old fashioned way, with a "click track" (to keep it all in tempo)

The inclusion of a typical pop song (though done in the bossa nova style) like "Don't know why" was something I don't often do, but in this case, the beginning sounds like a guitar. It's not. That's a 6 string electric bass being played "tap" style, (so I guess I put my own stamp on it!) After the intro, the upright bass takes over, and the 6 string electric bass is used for all the solos that accompany the piano. So, It may sound like a guitar but it's not.

On my original, "Squatch Squeetch", what may sound like keyboards is actually not. Most of what you are hearing is guitar and bass, heavily processed of course. The organ sound is a keyboard, but that's all I used.

The Rick James cover, "69 times" was recorded about 15 years ago, and features my lame-ass vocals, and some funk style electric bass.

The "27th" is Mozart's 27th symphony, done "arco" style on my double bass, playing along with a CD.

[ Edited by: lucas vigor 2010-04-07 08:48 ]