Blue Jade tab

[Basil Henriques]

Here is a backing track I made that follows the tab quite closely.. Feel free to use it..



AND full bandwidth 44.1 24bit AIFF -->
http://www.waikiki-islanders.com/assets ... ade_BT.aif

[derek evans 15]

Great Track Basil .Regards Derek

[mick hearn]

Has anyone tried that on lap steel - C6?

[mick hearn]

Basil - that is one beautiful backing track. Who was on piano? Brilliant.

For the sheer hell of it and for the same reason that people climb Everest I have done this on C6 lap steel. It will certainly test the accuracy of your bar slants as most are adjacent strings one fret apart. From what I have found so far big chords are out but it is still a pleasing piece. If anyone is interested I can try tabbing it out for those who do not have a pedal steel.

[Basil Henriques]

Thanks Mick, for the past 20 years or more I have played all the instruments on my recordings, and also most of those that I produced for other artists; the exception being the rhythm guitar parts that are sometimes augmented by Pat's superb playing..
I'm not sure about the "Brilliant" bit, all I did was copy what some much more clever person did originally..

[mick hearn]

Don't knock yourself Basil.

By the mere fact that we are all trying to play Blue Jade we are in fact trying to copy another very clever person. Whether we get there or not is another matter. Some will do it better than others. We may be able to play the notes but the big question is can we capture the feel. That's always the difficult part. You in fact got the feel of that piano spot on. I keep playing the backing track and just keep listening. If only the track was a little bit clearer.

Right - last nights gig over with and a few lessons learnt on the way. Now back to Blue Jade.

[mick hearn]

Well done Harry. After getting that tab you did a great job at the SESGF.

[Basil Henriques]

If only the track was a little bit clearer.

There is a reason for the lack of clarity, over compression and slightly odd frequency resonse (EQ)
It's deliberate, the actual track is pristine, BUT although I don't mind others using it, SOME players unscrupulously use backing tracks not made by themselves on CD recordings that they sell or at least give away as examples of their work often claiming to have done it all.

The number of occasions I've come across steel guitar instrumentals on the internet where the backing track is one that I did for Tune 1000, Hands on or any of the many other midifile companies I supply, It really annoys me when others take credit for work that's NOT theirs..

I recall a tape supplied to the BMG tape club and also sold commercially where Pat was the rhythm guitarist and my son Mike played keyboards and was involved in the recording BUT the steel player who 'released' the tape claimed it (on the sleeve notes) as ALL his own work..

Plagiarism is rife everywhere and no more or less than in the steel guitar world; On a duet recording of two prominent American steel players the recorded Tiger Shark(*)and used the intro of jaws claiming the idea as theirs when in fact it was stolen off an Idea of Mike Henrick on an AM-PM recording a few years earlier than their claimed "Original Idea" NOTE FOR NOTE. It's a pity their arrangement of Tiger Shark was so badly interpreted. I learned the tune and it's nuances of interpretation from it's composer directly [he was a friend..] RIP Peter Hodgkinson.
* Ken Emerson & Robert Armstrong. http://www.allmusic.com/album/ken-and-bob-escape-to-jazz-island-mw0002401544

[mick hearn]

I understand that one Basil. I was recently guilty of that with May It Be by Enya. I did the criminal thing of using a published karaoke track for the backing as it sounded so good and tried putting it on Soundcloud. It was immediately taken down as it was recognised by the copyright owners. Shame as I was really pleased with the result. I have since found a free midi file which was not too bad. I then separately recorded each track as a wav so that I could have complete control over EQ, reverb etc as I do not understand midi and have no keyboard. Not that I can play one anyway. In my view does not sound as good but it will do. Whilst talking about that song I did not know that some bars were 5/4 instead of 4/4 until I put the file into Cubase.

As for Blue Jade - you did me a favour as it made me create my own backing which made it a bit more interesting for me. It was just a shame that your piano playing was not there.

[Johan Forsman]

Basil, your backing track is beautiful, but of course as noticed and mentioned on here, almost unusable due the extreme compression. Any chance I could purchase a copy of the track? My intention would not be to use it in any recording or for any commercial purpose, just to have a great sound track to play to at home and possible use as a backtrack in a live gig. I can assure you the gig would be non commercial as no one would pay to hear me at this stage.