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Re: the infinite 5/4 challenge



i'd love to cross the pond, rick...but time and money prevent me doing
so at the moment. maybe when i'm rich and famous and living the
lifestyle of the genius billionaire playboy philanthropist...no
wait...that's tony stark isn't it...still...i got the suit...

anyway, thanks for commenting...it's always nice to get compliments
from drummers about my drum programming...they're a tough crowd! :O)

sim

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 10:57 PM, Rick Walker <looppool@cruzio.com> wrote:
> I've been putting off, as a complete guilty pleasure,  listening to
> everything in this delightful thread
> because the Loopfestival gets very all consuming as it begins,   but I 
> snuck
> a listen to this track this morning:
>
> Wow,  really nice work, Simeon!      It's also a really cool and clever
> subdivision of the slower quarter
> note in 5/4.
>
> Also, as a drummer,  I can't get a little snooty about guitarists
> programming drum machines (just because
> they so frequently don't sound 'realistic' to my ears but this is a 
> really
> great, natural feeling use of programmed
> drums.    Listening to it,  I was jealous of the drummer who got to 
> track it
> with you until I read later that you
> had programmed it.     Not that it means a hill of beans as they say, 
>  but
> this drummer says YEAH!!!
>
> Nice work!
>
> rick walker
>
> ps  now when will you come be featured in California some time soon?
> There's a juicy festival spot just waiting for you if you ever decide to
> cross that little pond twixt us.
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>>    http://simeonharris.bandcamp.com/track/the-space-between-breaths
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