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DarcyHoover
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Hey guys, hardly a blues....but definitely blues based. Been living and working in East Africa for the past two years, calling myself Mzungu Witchdoctor....
Found I could play a base line with my Les Paul and use cubebase to lower it an octave....

http://www.soundclick.com/player/single ... i&newref=1
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losaavedra
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Enjoyed this one ... but even more your prolific lyric writing talent in the the large amount of stuff you've got on Soundclick. And, refreshingly, not a BT in sight (I got a lot of time for DIY bluesmen!). Keep 'em coming!
Mike
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DarcyHoover
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Thanks! Not too prolific these days, life is cutting into my creativity and free time too much nowadays, but it's nice to get something out every once in awhile. I play a ton of covers but only bother recording my own stuff, for the most part. I had fun with this one!
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:wave: back! Must be a year or so since your last post...
Great one - lots of pure raw energy playing! :clap:
DarcyHoover
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Thanks. Been working/living in East Africa, Tanzania near the Mozambique border. Internet is sporadic at best, and not much free time for forum and songwriting unfortunately. I must say I'm quite enjoying it though.
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:welcome: back. This recording is very lively and full of energy and fun! :clap: :thumbsup:

Kudos for doing the one man band job too .... great that you can do your own backing to that level - a lot of us have to rely on BTs due to the horrible mess that results if we don't! :yikes:
An improv a day keeps the demons at bay!
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I saw this Canadian guy, Danny Michel, years ago, that inspired me. He gets up on stage by himself (opened for Great Big Sea) and starts playing a riff, steps in his looping pedal, walks over to his drums and does the same, then the bass.....just by manipulating a couple of looping pedals, he was doing this phenomenal live show all by himself! It was brilliant, and he managed to keep everything flowing! So I got myself a Boss RC-2 and with a bit of practice, figured out how to put bits together myself. Of course for recording, I record the drums first (using the looping pedal, I find a beat that works and set the tempo and record like five minutes or so) then monitoring that I do the guitar bits, then monitoring those do the vocal, then add lead if I'm going to. I use the RC-2 to write a lot, not sitting down to write, just to jam but sometimes something catches my ear and I work at developing it into a song, then when I think it's ready, I go to the recording scenario. I kind of messed up that last one, as I just jammed over what I had and the lead is all over the main guitar, I should have been much more judicial, but it kind of adds to the frantic nature I think.....

The lyrics are the tricky bit. I typically have the entire song recorded first then listen to it over and over and over until something starts to click, a mood, and I think about what I want the lyrics to be about, then start putting words and rhyming and working on how it works with the tempo...generally I want to write deeper lyrics but they always sound so pretentious, and I generally bring them down to bar room level eventually.....
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Nice to see u posting again :cool:

Good job on this :thumbsup:
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