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New Pac Swing
Part one of a three-part collection of songs that is currently in progress: Jazz with Namco WSG samples!
Inspirations: King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band, Duke Ellington, Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, Sonny Rollins. More detail on how I was inspired by them will be posted in the comments.
Made in FL Studio
P.S: This song has nothing to do with the electronic music genre New Jack Swing, which is a completely different genre not sharing similarities with Swing.
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Alright so as far as my inspirations go:
0:00 - 1:11 is Early New Orleans style jazz, the first type of jazz to exist which was played by Creoles and Black people when the Plessy vs. Ferguson act enforced segregation, declaring Creoles Black and forcing them to play with Black musicians only. The two ethnicities' styles of music mixed to create jazz, which was often played in jam sessions at clubs in New Orleans in places like Dixieland (hence this style also being known as Dixieland which I literally just found out by looking at Wikipedia). It is characterized by its use of collective improvisation, where each member of the band is playing their own improvised melody along the chord progression. There are a few songs with exceptions to this rule, such as Chimes Blues by King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band, where Louis Armstrong played a prewritten cornet solo. That aspect in particular seemingly lends itself to the writing of faux-collective improvisation in a DAW, since every instrument meshes together too well to be true.
Everything past 1:11 is Swing, the famous pop music genre of the Jazz Age and beyond. It took me a couple listens to figure out how to get the instrumentation and drum sound design down, specifically Take the A Train by Duke Ellington & Billy Strayhorn, In The Mood by Glenn Miller, and Well Git It by Tommy Dorsey.
Swing sometimes features a call and response between one or more lead instruments and supplementary instruments providing chords, for example a saxophone and muted trumpets respectively. Then at 2:38 the solos: A keyboard (Organ 4) and a couple others halfway through, and then a drum solo. I took inspiration from Sonny Rollins' song St. Thomas from Saxophone Colossus for those sections. Please listen to it, it's got some of the best solos I've ever heard.
Alright so as far as my inspirations go:
0:00 - 1:11 is Early New Orleans style jazz, the first type of jazz to exist which was played by Creoles and Black people when the Plessy vs. Ferguson act enforced segregation, declaring Creoles Black and forcing them to play with Black musicians only. The two ethnicities' styles of music mixed to create jazz, which was often played in jam sessions at clubs in New Orleans in places like Dixieland (hence this style also being known as Dixieland which I literally just found out by looking at Wikipedia). It is characterized by its use of collective improvisation, where each member of the band is playing their own improvised melody along the chord progression. There are a few songs with exceptions to this rule, such as Chimes Blues by King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band, where Louis Armstrong played a prewritten cornet solo. That aspect in particular seemingly lends itself to the writing of faux-collective improvisation in a DAW, since every instrument meshes together too well to be true.
Everything past 1:11 is Swing, the famous pop music genre of the Jazz Age and beyond. It took me a couple listens to figure out how to get the instrumentation and drum sound design down, specifically Take the A Train by Duke Ellington & Billy Strayhorn, In The Mood by Glenn Miller, and Well Git It by Tommy Dorsey.
Swing sometimes features a call and response between one or more lead instruments and supplementary instruments providing chords, for example a saxophone and muted trumpets respectively. Then at 2:38 the solos: A keyboard (Organ 4) and a couple others halfway through, and then a drum solo. I took inspiration from Sonny Rollins' song St. Thomas from Saxophone Colossus for those sections. Please listen to it, it's got some of the best solos I've ever heard.
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So much to love here through the breakdown and clear to the end. Just solid stuff. Wow
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this is super cute and really well arranged. it kind of astonishes me that you haven't been making music for all that long lol. you sure do learn quick. how do you just pull this harmony out of thin air!?
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swaaaaaaaaaang, this is sooooo good
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@damifortune I finally know how to respond after almost two weeks. One of several examples: 3:52
Can you believe that the staircase to the chord before the drum solo was almost ACTUALLY pulled out of thin air? I literally started with randomly placed notes, then rearranged them in a way that moved harmonically/jazzy with passing tones! You can still hear their somewhat random quality if you play it back repeatedly.
Can you believe that the staircase to the chord before the drum solo was almost ACTUALLY pulled out of thin air? I literally started with randomly placed notes, then rearranged them in a way that moved harmonically/jazzy with passing tones! You can still hear their somewhat random quality if you play it back repeatedly.
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Such lyrical melodies, can tell you really enjoyed making this :)
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This is such a fun and cool little bop. I could totally see it in a Pac-Man game!
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As a current member of my university's jazz band, I'm really tempted to compose a piece like this! The improvisations are so cool!
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