One Man Band and How it can simplify the production of music
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- Опубликовано: 29 окт 2024
- I started my one man band in 2008 as a direct reaction to the economic climate of the time - gigs started to dry up and peoples' weddings were more cut-down affairs, with DJs or even just a sound system with someone's playlist going through it.
I had to keep working and as such came up with this as there's only one person to pay and it's all volume controllable. I did quite a few gigs like this.
It did become a little too complicated with keyboards and different sounds and what was lost was the spontaneity of it, and I also used a loop pedal to play solos over the top. However, that made it more self-indulgent than communicating with the audience. More songs and fewer solos....
It's also had an impact on how I produce my own music, whether it be for a recording session, library music, etc. It also had an impact on how I taught music to people - a live jamming band with a pupil, whose rhythmic intent and listening rose as a result. No backing tracks that wouldn't be flexible in any way...
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Dan is GENIOUS ! This is what music is. Creativity and passion that, in Dan’s case, also bathes in what seems to be an endless source of talent. Cheers !
Thanks very much and glad you enjoyed it!
This is sooo insane and one of the craziest things I have ever seen but I absolutely love it!!!
Ha! Excellent. I love being as mad as a bottle of chips...
In my limited view, the term muso is thrown around too loosely. This man is a muso. I've learned so much. Thank you sir.
thanks m8, i always had my own idea of how to do this, but the current group i jam with just doesnt like the same sound i do, this is gonna help me keep my own passions on the side, be productive with them, and also be productive with my group as well.
Super cool setup and crossover between guitar and bass is a neat idea. I have and old 8-track (and four of them are drums) just to prevent myself from adding all the crap I want.
That’s a great comment - preventing oneself adding nonsense is a great way to think about production...
I don't know how and I don't know when but I'm gonna get this guy to play at my wedding
Aw cheers!
I find it hard enough to do play the guitar, never mind 3 instruments at once. Genius.
For me, it’s dividing work up to give the impression of complexity...
Bonkers genius😆and so very creative. Your voice is great and the Music master sounds perfect for that Motown/soul rhythm stuff that you do so well.
Dan, Dan is THE music MAN!
Cheers Don!
amazing, I like your style of producing music.
Very interesting 🤔
Brilliant Dan! Great stuff!
Brilliant! Wish I was coordinated enough to do that!
great stuff!
What a guy: GarageBand all to himself...!! Cheers Dan 👍🏻😉
Cheers!
Now you're just showing off Dan haha. ;p)
Dan, I bought a set of those wireless guitar transmitters, greatest thing since the cordless phone.
They’re great aren’t they!
i dig it man!
Thanks, fascinating.
Thanks Virgil!
Amazing!
Aah so cool at 6:38 - how about a full one man band blues video on this kit?!
I’ll do it!
Really nice! Dan, I like the idea you can still work as an individual act these days with the equipment, plus hard work and talent you have put into your project. I am a saxophonist and I am trying to figure out a way to do the same. I haven't found any decent backing tracks. If you know of any way guitar, bass and drums or piano bass and drums type of way a sax player can do the same thing let me know.
It’s a tricky one. I have thought about trying to come up with tracks whose tempo is based on pressing and releasing a pedal, and as for major/minor, that’s a different ball game....
I love your work and inventive approach! I do a similar, though simpler setup. I use a few independent piezo triggers I fashioned from large rubber doorstops. This gives me the ability to separate the triggers as to keep my shoes on. Lol.
I’m really curious about the two bass strings and what gauge they are to be tunable on your Strat scale length. Additionally, you said you split the guitar output into a preamp then two independent Outputs? What is the signal path? I’ll gladly contribute to your PayPal for a bit of consultation. I have great results with my setup (baritone acoustic-foot tiggers-guitar mounted knob for EHX mellotron pedal) but I want to keep improving. After pandemic I really couldn’t afford my trio anymore and I started the “one man band” thing. You’ve really nailed it! Of course, I admire all your skill and invention! Cheers 👍🏼
Hi there! Those triggers of yours sound amazing! I’ll have to have a go at that. My guitar is actually much shorter scale than a strat but the bass strings are an A and D from a medium gauge bass set, but tuned down to E and A. You have to palm mute the bass strings to get rid of any weird harmonic balance because of the scale length and very low tension. I just ran the bass strings over the top of the existing nut to give some sort of string height, and then cut away the outer winding at the end to get them round the guitar tuners.
Electrically, the guitar is plugged into a Presonus mic pre amp, which then feeds its two outputs (one on Jack, one on XLR) to left and right of an Alesis MEQ 230 graphic, whose outputs feed my bass amp and guitar amp....
Amazing. What kind of controller is that for the drums? It looks like the foot pedals on an organ.
Yeah. It’s a set of Studiologic pedals…
5:10
Bassist
Can't bear "root/5th"
GOTTA HAVE THAT FUNK!!!
As a bass player I wholeheartedly agree!
@@DanBakerMusic Playing "12 bar blues" like one long solo... 😂🍻
And you need the talent to pull it off. How difficult is it to put bass strings on the guitar and set it up?
Cheers for watching! The bass strings are an A and D from a medium set, tuned down to E and A. They just sit on the original nut and actually therefore sit higher up. Not a bad thing as the action needs to be higher anyway...the guitar is therefore totally un modified otherwise.
I did also cut off the outer windings where the strings entered the headstock, so that they would wrap around the guitar tuners...
Cash Coverters in Mayfair, maybe
😂😂😂
What a work out for the brain and body? Far too talented Dan …I’ll keep practicing 👍🥴
It’s great fun, and derivation all for me as I have to divide work up...
Get Vinny Colaiuta on your "organ drums"
I’d love to jam with him!
@@DanBakerMusic Been messing with "odd" time signatures recently (7/8 mostly, trying 11/8 currently) so been listening to watching docs of him a lot, so first drummer that came to mind - but yeah, intrigued to see more "feet drumming" from talented "double bass drum pedal" type players use it as a "solo instrument".
Props on your ideas/fruition (read your comment about "detuning/cutting bass strings"); mad skills (& cuts & bruises one imagines) 🎸🥃
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