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OK, I'm in for this month.  Saw the pic & figured it had to be something mechanical.  Created a bass sound on Equator2 & another on Serum.  Got some vocal samples off Splice that I felt fitted the image & put them together to form some sort of track.

The drums are a mix of heavily processed samples & then I needed to make a wee break.  Surge synth provides the organ sound.

So the quad biker is the lady singing the song.  She  jumps from the top of the hill & feels on top of the world.  Hears a clink & feels like a drop-in.

It's very much deep house & the bass doesn't work on small speakers or phones, so all you'll hear is the drums on there.  I might go back to it & add/alter if I get time.

19 minutes ago, Barking Spiders said:

You heard any Modeselektor, which comprises the two guys here other than Sacha Ring, aka Apparat, on vocals?

Yup.  A friend let me hear them a few years ago (along with Aparat & Moderat).  They’re fantastic.

15 hours ago, Barking Spiders said:

Can't get enough of Moderat at the moment, especially these tune

 

 

Been listening to a lot of them & Aparat. 

Just going over the songs again for tomorrow evening's recording.  The bridge in Awake My Soul by Hillsong really goes a Steve Harris galloping bassline.  Don't know why they didn't do that instead of the crochets (Maybe that's as fast as the bassist can play?  He's their good bassist...  He know's 5 notes 😂).

9 hours ago, owen said:

CCW = mainstream pop for over 30s. There is a reason bands who I would not choose to listen to shift WAY more product than I ever will. I do not doubt that the people who play CCW could rip it up with glee, but it is not that scene. Very few "normal" people want to listen to musicians giving it the max. The Gospel scene is incredibly niche in the way it encourages monster players giving it the max for "normal" people to react to. 

I get that CCW is church pop music, but it’s still no excuse. 

Pop music can have good music & even break away from a derivative of 1, 4, 5, 6.

Theres a lot of great CCW (Elevation have a lot of great stuff), but at the same time, there’s a lot of cookie cutter guff that I dare say much of the congregation don’t particularly like either. Sing his praise again by hillsong is a prime example of this nonsense. 
 

Oddly enough, I was listening to that song last week, along with a few other Ron Kenoly tracks.

I don’t get how gospel has amazing musicians, but CCW has some of the lamest

To me, praising God should be bringing your best, not your least. 

Well seeing I’m not a singer (I can’t sing at all). 
Though the odd thing is, I’ve never had to change song key in any of the secular bands I’ve played in. 🤔

& I still don’t get why even the female led songs get a key change too when it’s females singing. 😂

Anyway.
Here’s someone making a very good point about worship bass in a rather humorous way...

15 minutes ago, Dad3353 said:

It has its Good Aspects, and I've heard far, far worse, but life-changing..? A bit too late for me, I'm afraid.  Thanks for sharing, just the same.
(Hint : Don't go to a full performance of Schubert's Ninth; there's only so many changes one can have in one's lifetime.  )

When this came out, Drum n Bass was a fairly new genre. This took it to another level & led the way for countless great mainstream DnB & Breakbeat tracks.

LTJ Bukem is also worth a listen, though he’s more towards the jazz side of DnB.

Love Roni Size’s New Forms album. Some great bass lines on there. 

I still don’t get why the Singists can’t just learn to sing in the original key to save all this bother?

Don’t the originals get written in a key that suits the congregation? 

56 minutes ago, Baxlin said:

We use OnSongs, which make it easy to change key.  Last Sunday we tried one of the songs in 3 different keys before we found the one the WL was happy with....

A couple of the musicians in our church use onsongs. It looks like it could be useful. I usually just Chuck the tracks in Logic & use a pitch changer

I still don’t get why every song has to be in a different key from the original, even the ones that are sung by females (it’s all female worship leaders in our church)?

1 hour ago, LukeFRC said:

You’ve got three songs to learn in 6 days? Normally I get given a chord charts (in the wrong key) for 3 new song I’ve never heard about an hour before it’s due to play it!! 

That’s happened before. 
I got the chord charts, which are always in a different key from the originals & likely to change on the day.

The saving grace is every worship song we do uses a version of 1, 4, 5, 6. So I’ll probably play some U2 bass lines. 

I’m recording 9 songs with a stripped down church band on 1st March. Just got the set list today. 3 of the songs I don’t know.

It’d be nice to get the songs a bit earlier so I can actually learn them & not wing it along with a chord chart, but this seems to be the norm with church worship leaders.  😶

Just stumbled upon this chap's youtube stuff last week.  Never saw this one though.  Cheers.  

I’ve played a couple of times to record songs for a month or so’s worth of services.

A bunch of us have been doing online meets to write some worship songs too.  That’s been fun. 

Orange Crush (REM)

Bad Blood (Bastille)

Caught by the fuzz (Supergrass)

Never come back (Caribou)

Just can’t get enough (Depeche Mode)

Matchbox (the Kooks)

They arrived tonight. Set them up & they do sound fantastic. The Mrs didn’t expect them to be so big (that’s what she said). 

Smack my b!tch up (the Prodegy)

I gave up w@n|<ing (Kevin Wilson)

Smells like teen spirit. (Nirvana)