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scally wagging

By miraclemiles on December 1, 2024 11:59 pm

The word scallywag, popped into my head this week and made me smile. I gotta find out where that comes from, its a fun one. Definition I looked up just now includes "rascal" or "scamp" (also fun words). Maybe I was remembering how my grandma used to call me those sometimes, or I was thinking of my son when he was a younger since this song features him on the tenor saxophone.
So I put down this basic groove, then got my son to come play sax. He helped write these chords and we recorded for a while. Later, I wasn't really feeling it so I started layering his sax, adding a lot of reverb and echo delay. I liked where that was going, but ultimately ran out of time and inspiration to go a whole new direction so it became a hybrid if the layered dreamy idea, and the beat over pretty chords we started with. Did my best to make into something. The song ended up being a bit of a rascal itself. Some potential though, and some fun was had. Another week done, almost the end, wow. Hope you all are good. Thanks for the music and inspiration each week!

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"Scallywag" sounds like an insult mouthed by a pirate in a cartoon. I love how random an inspiration for a track can be. The saxophone lines are adventurous, going in and out. There is a sense of positivity and fun. That section from 1:19 is hip. I can see that with strobo lights and maybe a tap dance section by a three legged martian. Ooooh the beat from 1:50 is good. That snare like sound just snaps properly, in a very satisfying way, while backed by this very round bass. You're having a good family fun, in a pirate friendly way.

Yeah, the pretty saxophone is back. Wonderful. Your music is so unique and experimental. Love it.

an excellent family collab, this scally wagging
the sax adds so much! musical talent and feel clearly runs in the family

Kedbreak136 wrote:

"Scallywag" sounds like an insult mouthed by a pirate in a cartoon. I love how random an inspiration for a track can be. The saxophone lines are adventurous, going in and out. There is a sense of positivity and fun. That section from 1:19 is hip. I can see that with strobo lights and maybe a tap dance section by a three legged martian. Ooooh the beat from 1:50 is good. That snare like sound just snaps properly, in a very satisfying way, while backed by this very round bass. You're having a good family fun, in a pirate friendly way.

haha, love your comment here! It's totally pirate word. And after too much of the old rhum we know about, they throw it around a lot! Everyone's a scallywag .. until they cross the line and become a dirty scoundrel! So glad you got a sense of positivity and fun here. That was our original kind of thing, sitting down on thanksgiving with those chords. Good pirate family friendly fun indeed, with a guest appearances from tap dancing martians of course!

Q-Rosh wrote:

Yeah, the pretty saxophone is back. Wonderful. Your music is so unique and experimental. Love it.

Thank you! Yeah glad the sax is back, wasn't as excited for this session as others, but we had some moments, and did my best. Glad you're always down to listen to some unique experiments, and of course you are since your music is incredibly unique and experimental, and I love it!

jwh wrote:

an excellent family collab, this scally wagging
the sax adds so much! musical talent and feel clearly runs in the family

Ah thanks! I'm so happy my son is into music as well, he will like this comment. Love the collabin we are starting to do, and going to keep trying to enable them as much as I can!

love those sax samples. Love the different phases and ways you layer the samples.

Awesome collab, the drums sound great and the sax sounds so good, had you not mentioned it was your son I would have thought you sampled it.  Awesome playing and just an overall feel good head nodder. 

Great to hear you collaborating with your son again, so enjoyable to get the kids involved.  Another fun beat which goes in different directions but all relates and comes back again.  Funny I sometimes call my kids scallywags's, but did not know the actual definition or where the word comes from, always reminded me of pirates slacking off.

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