THIS IS SO GOOD I AM LOSING MY MIND

I love jazz music and I actually love jazz on a jazzmaster (sacrilege!)

incredible job and all the virtual instruments had a wonderful cohesiveness

THIS IS SO GOOD I AM LOSING MY MIND I love jazz music and I actually love jazz on a jazzmaster (sacrilege!) incredible job and all the virtual instruments had a wonderful cohesiveness

Honestly, one of the most inspiring tracks I’ve heard it a long time. I just got synthv, and I should totally make it sing like this. I’ve always been jealous of people who can make amazing jazz music like this.

Honestly, one of the most inspiring tracks I’ve heard it a long time. I just got synthv, and I should totally make it sing like this. I’ve always been jealous of people who can make amazing jazz music like this.

awesome orchestration between your vocals and all the intruments. That bassline midway ooooh like I'm tip toeing down a flight of stairs.  Sweet outro with the lil bounce. Nice work!

awesome orchestration between your vocals and all the intruments. That bassline midway ooooh like I'm tip toeing down a flight of stairs. Sweet outro with the lil bounce. Nice work!

Wonderful track! I had to do a double take at first, as it isn't something I'd immediately recognize as your work, but that's amazing! The drums sound great too - I was looking at those newer Yamaha finger drum models, and wondering how well they would work out (pretty great, it seems!)

Wonderful track! I had to do a double take at first, as it isn't something I'd immediately recognize as your work, but that's amazing! The drums sound great too - I was looking at those newer Yamaha finger drum models, and wondering how well they would work out (pretty great, it seems!)

damn this is awesome. 5/5

damn this is awesome. 5/5

Very cool track, from a very cool idea, like just an interesting exercise, and bonus that it ended with fun track... though I have to ask... what's your opinion on the Osmose, like from the perspective of a pianist? Particularly for tracks like this, where you leaning into "non-keys" sounds. 

Very cool track, from a very cool idea, like just an interesting exercise, and bonus that it ended with fun track... though I have to ask... what's your opinion on the Osmose, like from the perspective of a pianist? Particularly for tracks like this, where you leaning into "non-keys" sounds.

Snazzy, it's like double tracking, but not.

it's clearly 3/4, but I agree it's 5 stars.
- Leega

Snazzy, it's like double tracking, but not. [quote]damn this is awesome. 5/5[/quote] it's clearly 3/4, but I agree it's 5 stars. - Leega

whoa, a left turn! love it. would not have guessed this was you, although by now i'm starting to recognize your voice which is nice.
hooray for jazzmasters!

whoa, a left turn! love it. would not have guessed this was you, although by now i'm starting to recognize your voice which is nice. hooray for jazzmasters!

Very cool! Weird chords and melodies, very "jazz" tho hard to follow hahah. I would have liked to hear the two leads in unison! Nice playing but I feel like you did set yourself up for a rough time with those chords. I can imagine it took a lot of takes or fiddling with midi?!

Anyway love the playfulness and the sounds and the composition matches, it is all exceptionally whimsical!

I like combining two instruments for unison stuff, the most inspiring combination I heard was melodica and acoustic piano in Eiko Ishibashi album Drive my car. Cool find this band! And thanks for sharing!

Very cool! Weird chords and melodies, very "jazz" tho hard to follow hahah. I would have liked to hear the two leads in unison! Nice playing but I feel like you did set yourself up for a rough time with those chords. I can imagine it took a lot of takes or fiddling with midi?! Anyway love the playfulness and the sounds and the composition matches, it is all exceptionally whimsical! I like combining two instruments for unison stuff, the most inspiring combination I heard was melodica and acoustic piano in Eiko Ishibashi album Drive my car. Cool find this band! And thanks for sharing!

Woah, very different tack for you, love it.

Do more weird shit this is great

Needs a breakdown with a full accordion line I think 🤔

Woah, very different tack for you, love it. Do more weird shit this is great Needs a breakdown with a full accordion line I think 🤔

I mean... I was just smiling the whole time. This was just delightful.

My only note would be to really let each instrument have a solo-ish moment - where the others still play but are very muted, the trumpet-like sound is pretty much the same loudness, timbre and dynamic for the whole song and it sorta flattens some of the "solo" moments for the other instruments, the jazzmaster in particular. I'm reminded of jazz pieces where each player sorta has a spotlight moment then passes it on to the next, who often "responds" with a slight variation on the motif and so on... I can imagine you having a lot of fun with that lol

I mean... I was just smiling the whole time. This was just delightful. My only note would be to really let each instrument have a solo-ish moment - where the others still play but are very muted, the trumpet-like sound is pretty much the same loudness, timbre and dynamic for the whole song and it sorta flattens some of the "solo" moments for the other instruments, the jazzmaster in particular. I'm reminded of jazz pieces where each player sorta has a spotlight moment then passes it on to the next, who often "responds" with a slight variation on the motif and so on... I can imagine you having a lot of fun with that lol

Make more of this please

Make more of this please

haha, with a first comment like that you know the track is set for a good start thanks for stopping by, Drew.

High praise, thank you, I'm like actually blushing.

Haha, glad it worked. I was pretty happy with that bass solo.

I rarely put bona fide jazz on Weekly Beats since it doesn't really fit under this moniker, but sometimes I actually, you know, do

Glad you liked it!

The Osmose is a wonderful instrument. I love it. The software could use a little work and the UI choices on the limited left-hand side control panel are pretty questionable. But aside from that, it's exactly the right kind of expression I always wanted in keys. The vertical resistance of the keys feels different from a hammer-action piano and from light keys on a typical synth, so I treat it as a different kind of instrument.

I can play solo piano music on it as you've heard me do before, but you're right to ask how "non-keys" sound feel to play. To me they feel fantastic. There's just enough control horizontally for it to not be distracting. You need to mindful of it, because it turns out a pianist often leans on a depressed key for reach, and on Osmose that detunes the key, which you don't want haha. But you quickly learn to control it.

The implementation of "pre-aftertouch" pressure and aftertouch pressure in keys is very precise and with enough key travel for it to be useful musically. I like it much better than the Polybrute 12 implementation of the same idea. When I first tried the Osmose at Superbooth 2024 I immediately loved it, unlike other MPE controllers like the Haken Continuum, ROLI Seaboard, or any of the pad-based controllers. But I already owned the Iridium Keyboard then, so I needed a 61-key version to justify the purchase. And now it's here!

haha, thanks, Leega

Well, you can't expect me to spew angsty lyrics every week!

The chords aren't that adventurous, but I needed to make sure to avoid falling into the rails of existing melodies in the space. So maybe my choices were a little out there. I agree with you that the initial theme would work better if the voice and the trumpet were in unison for more than the first few notes!

Thank you for the careful listen and feedback. I really do appreciate that.

Haha, that's encouraging. We've got over 40 weeks to go, plenty of space for off-the-wall material

You are entirely correct on this point, I ran out of time to properly give every "musician" a solo piece. So no vocal solo, no trumpet solo, no drum solo. And yeah, maybe dialing down the loudness of the other stuff during a solo would be a good idea! I'll keep that in mind for the future.

As always, thank you for the careful listen and feedback.

Thanks for the encouragement! There's enough time this year that it's likely.

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Spicy (in a good way) start! Very cool programmed drums, maybe they could be even softer.

I'm not fully sold on trumpet synth, but it all sounds super cool. Vocal solo is amazing.

Spicy (in a good way) start! Very cool programmed drums, maybe they could be even softer. I'm not fully sold on trumpet synth, but it all sounds super cool. Vocal solo is amazing.