Hello again Phatkatz4,

So you found another of my few Blues songs. Glad you liked this one. Blues isn't my favorite type of music, thus I have only made a few of them. But am happy you enjoyed it.

Randy

Hello there,

Thanks for your review of at least 5 of my tunes thus far. I appreciate all your comments and will answer each one a little later. I am working a lot of hours now and and don't have much time to review others tunes at this moment....but I will..so don't worry.

I will be making another modern country tune(s) with my Telecaster as soon as work slows down.
I guess if you read my profile and saw my Gallery, then you probably seen the guitars I use and my home studio setup.

Bye for now and I am glad you enjoyed my other tunes as well. I strive for quality in my playing and/or assembling of loops of instruments I don't play or own.

Thanks again,
Randy

Hi there,

Looks like your making the rounds of my tunes. Great...I am sure most of them will be quite different than you have heard before as I try not to copy anyone.

I am glad you enjoyed the Blues 101 tune. That was the 1st blues tune I made. The second and third ones are a lot different yet.

Not sure what your hearing in the second part of 101. It is in a 'C' tuning as whereas the first part was in "E" tuning.
I used my Strat on that one with a combo of slide, picking and overdubbing to fill it out more.
I'd love to give you more reviews of your songs, but you only have 1 up and I reviewed that one already. When are you gonna make more?? I like your music really.

Anyways, thanks for the nice review,
Randy

Hello Lofthouse,

Thanks for your kind review. I do Country, Blues and Rock as I like all 3 genre. Probably would be better if I stuck to one, but I grew up in the 60-70's era and I like all that music.

Thanks again,
Randy

Hi there sir,
Thank you for reviewing one of my Blues tracks.
I appreciate the comment and will certainly check out one of your tunes in a bit.
Randy

Thanks demonicdnb,
I appreciate your review and comments. I'll check out one of your tunes tonight.
Thanks again,
Randy

Hello there,
Thanks for reviewing one of my Blues tracks. Yeah, I know what you mean...Blues will never die...just like rock-n-roll won't. I will review some of your songs as well and listen to the Muddy Waters one you mentioned.
Thanks again,
Randy

Hello there,
Thanks for listening and reviewing my tune. I know exactly what you mean about hearing the same over and over.
In this song I tried to show both instrument sides....acoustic and electric. Glad you liked one of them. :-)
Randy

Hello djsalkizar,
Thanks for listening and reviewing my Blues song.
'Slide' is fairly easy actually. You can tune your guitar to an open tuning like "E" or "G" which is the same as a normal Dobro and 5 string Banjo tuning, and when you strum across, you have a full chord without actually having to 'fret' the instrument.

Sounds cool. It is easier if you have 2 guitars tho....one tuned to normal and an extra one to fool around with. You can use slide in a normal "E" tuning, but you get a different sound.
Randy

Hi there Mos'reQuest~,
Hey....thanks so much for listening/reviewing my song 'Blues 101'. I appreciate the review and will later today listen to some of your tunes as well and give you feedback.
Randy

Hi there SEROKSATY,
Thanks for the review. If you haven't already, take a listen to the Blues song I uploaded yesterday called 3 Part Blues. You may like that as well.
Thanks for your reviewing my Altern-Rock song as well. More to come.
Randy

Hello there Art,
Thanks for the review. I certainly appreciate it.
Glad you like both parts. Since the individual songs were so short, I felt that I needed to do something...so I made the tune into 2 songs with totally different sytles. Sometimes your mind goes blank after starting a song. :-)

In my next Blues song, I have put in a Fender Strat again, doing some cool harmonics. Again it will be a 2 part song only because I couldn't get the 1st part out of my head and it is short.

Features mostly Dobro sound/slide as lead.
I'll check some of your songs here and give a review.
Randy

Hi there blairrock957,
Thanks so much for reviewing my tracks. I appreciate the nice comments. I agree the songs are a little short. However, It is hard making a instrumental unless you add in a lot of different instruments or parts....as a song will get boring pretty fast.
However, I'll try and make my next songs a little longer. :-)
I am just getting back into making music again after nearly over 20 year of hanging it up....because of rotating shiftwork.
Thanks again for the review.
Randy

Hi Johnny,
Thanks for the nice review. So it took 16 seconds to put this song in as a Fav eh? hee hee
Feel free to download it and add to it with a Harmonica or whatever.
The problem on this site is, a lot of songs and loops get uploaded everyday, and if you don't sign onto here only once or twice a week as I do, a person is likely to miss anothers good tune or loop unless you go way back in time.

So far I have only posted 3 songs on here and will have another Blues one up in a week or so. Just trying to add more Dobro/slide parts.

Takes me awhile to do a song as I pay attention to all the little details before I release a song. (volume, effects, mix, etc). If I am sending out a song with my name on it, I hope most people will like it because of the songs content, originality, and mix.

With todays amazing software out there available and quality loops, etc., there is no reason to put out a 'bad song'.

Perhaps we could do a collab on something in the near future if you'd like.
Randy

Hi Whitesands,
Thanks for the review. When my next Blues song comes out, you might want to consider buying a case of beer!
:-)
Thanks again,
Randy

Hello meestege,
I appreciate your review, but apparently your reviewing a different song than mine. My song is totally an instrumental and I don't sing at all, nor play a clarinet. Thanks anyways. :-)
Randy

Hi ya Six.....
Thanks for the review. Basically I get the sound in my head and then search for a drum set that will match it. If I can't find one, then I make up my own drums. A cool place to get live acoustic sounding drums is at: Betamonkeymusic.com. They also have free samples to download...including heavy double bass (kick) drums kits for rock music.
My next song will be partly a more familiar 12 bar Blues shuffle type beat.
Thanks again,
Randy

Hi Planet,
Thanks for the nice review. I just woke up to check my mail, and your message was the first I seen. I liked the live feel as well as I left eveything in...including string buzz noise, etc.
Thanks again,
Randy

Hi Magician,
Thanks for your comment. I appreciate it very much. I'll be doing some more Blues and Country songs soon. I'll get to review some of your
song(s) and others that gave me a review as well, very soon.
Randy

Hello there Slap!!!!
Thank you for reviewing my song. I appreciate it very much....as if a majority of people didn't like it, or the sound, then I'd obviously need to change something.
Getting it to sound good is my main goal after getting the tracks laid down. It's wonderful to have all the tools they have these days available so you can do a song justice.

I am not that good at slide really, but I try. Just go real slow and do a half dozen notes at a time until you have it down so it feels natural.

Then go another 6 notes or so. Once you can get a half a dozen notes down good, record them on a track, and then keep adding to it and edit as you need.
Pretty soon, you'll have a whole tune done!
I mean this song took me a whole month to do that way.
Good luck with your playing and learning,
Randy

Hello REI.
Thanks for reviewing my latest song! Hopefully I'll get better doing songs on the computer as most people seem to be doing it that way these days.
A lot of editing of commercial songs is all done on computers.
As far as timing, yeah, my earlier songs of 5-6 years ago, I had timing issues. I started using a click track, or metronone, and that straightened it all out for me.
Randy

Hi Profita. Thanks for reviewing my latest song. I used to play in a country-rock band about 25 years ago. I started working shift work so couldn't play in a band anymore. So I gave music up.
But now I have decided to get back into it. So stay tuned. Not sure you'll like all the types of music I'll try, but I'll do another Blues tune of a different style, down the road.
Randy