The musicians of this forum...

[ChrisMClark]

Are any of you brass bandies? I ask becuase I'm off to Torquay tomorrow for the Western area contest, and will be sat around for hours with nothing to do by drink and herf alone as normal though

[ChrisMClark]

Don't you just hate it when...

...you realised you deleted something when totally shitfaced...and then totally regret it.

I spent weeks working on a musical arrangement of a piece called Vitae Lux for concert wind band, It was nearly finished. Then I got really hacked off with work, got shedded and deleted it...then emptied my recycle bin.

I've just now remembered, after I told my boss that I'd done an arrangement I wanted him to listen to.

What a prize plank

(just realised I meant to start a new thread with this...oh well )

[Robusto]

I've got a good brass patch on my Triton Extreme. I say good but I actually hate brass and woodwind sounds on keyboards. I can use this particular brass sound when a band has a bit of a storm on.

I detest keyboard sax sounds.

I've never flushed away an arrangement!

[Drewmidorn]

I've got a good brass patch on my Triton Extreme. I say good but I actually hate brass and woodwind sounds on keyboards. I can use this particular brass sound when a band has a bit of a storm on.

I detest keyboard sax sounds.

However the beauty of keyboard brass sounds is they don't stink of beer, try to get off with every man, woman and animal in the audience. Most importantly they don't need a properly printed Sibeilius score even though they only play a really memorable and catchy, 2 bar, monophonic hook line after every chorus.... and then act like they're better musician because they carry a music stand to every gig. If we book a dep guitarist he gets sent a CD and then paid for the gig. If I book a horn player not only does he need to write it all down (all four bars he'll actually be playing on), but he wants to invoice you for doing so.

I'm a bit of a wiz with samples (even if i do say so myself) but programming horn parts is one of the more complex things because you actually need different sets of sample for different parts of the phrase and you need to layer them well (swells, drops, rasps, overblows etc)... still never sounds as good as the horns on Superstition though.

Enough nerdiness now!