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Yes, and for me. Also his Bass on the 'Bergerac Theme'. R.I.P. Mo Foster. A UK session treasure.

This live 'Don Grusin' concert has some smashing grooves on it. A great line up with some terrific playing all round. It has both Abe Laborial and Nathan East on it as well. They actually play together on the last tune:

'The Way It Is' by Bruce Hornsby. When I first heard it I was hooked and have been ever since. Mike Verta has an indepth YouTube tutorial on how to play the tune/piece (below).

I was on holiday in Jamaica recently...I didn't think of my Bass once....well, until a local Dude offered me a Jazz Cigarette, man.

"The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes." – Thomas Beecham

Yeah, I like it too...The whole band are right on top of it with some great playing and a very good arrangement. Thanks for posting.

For anyone new to home recording, or toying with the idea, 'Musicradar' have a couple of articles regarding putting together a free 'Virtual Software Studio'. https://www.musicradar.com/news/the-best-free-daws-2021-the-best-free-music-production-software-for-pc-and-mac https://www.musicradar.com/news/build-music-studio-free-plugins

The Bassist is a fellow called 'David Shields'.

Hamish Stuart on lead vocals...

I think this live version is the best version. The whole band are right 'on it' and Marcus is in all his glory.

Maybe it's from the DAW end... I presume you have looked into preferences/midi? If not, have a look at the video below. The section that may be of interest to you starts at 0:42 seconds:

Of course, you are 100% right and I do agree...although, 'alleged', is pushing it a bit.

Velocity X-Fade as well, which is also great for rolls, crescendos and decrescendos etc. The VSL Syncron Player is excellent for this via Mod Wheel or whatever Midi controller that yoy want to use. X-Fade is very useful in real time playing as well, although, of course you can program or draw in the Midi data after. Getting pretty authentic results/mock-ups out of Virtual Instruments these days has never been easier....or cheaper!! There are some great deals around with constant sales on if you keep your eyes open (and a few very decent freebies as well).

Yes, there are a few Software Virtual Drummers that do this. Also these days, look out for libraries that have 'Round-Robin' samples. I've lifted the below from elsewhere, which sums it up nicely. "I doubt that you'll need to read a tutorial. Round-robin is simply a way to let sample developers play back a different sampled version of the same sound each time you hit the same key, so that just like most acoustic instruments each note sounds slightly different for more realism. This feature becomes particularly important with drum libraries to avoid the 'machine gun' effect of rapidly repeating the same (for instance) snare drum sound. By having two, four or eight slightly different snare samples, played back in sequence, you avoid such artificial-sounding effects, since if you keep hitting the same key it will play back (for instance): Sample 1, Sample 2, Sample 3, Sample 4, Sample 1, Sample 2...Sometimes they are random Sample1, Sample 3 etc..." I

Yeah, he's great...He does a whole bunch of excellent arrangements on his YouTube channel. I like they way he goes about his voicings. A very talented musician:

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Blimey, don't push it. Anticipating beat one is "life in the fast lane" for some, it seems...

If anyone is interested, below is a link to the full score. The studio version with Bass, Guitars (inc solo), Banjo and Vocal charts etc... https://musescore.com/user/28322913/scores/7314548

Yes , it is the same and I can't hear any 9/8 bars. Maybe some are getting confused with the 8th note (quaver) anticipations going on during the eight bar intro (before the two bars).

I haven't a clue, Crusoe. I don't even know who he is...Google was my friend...

More from the 'Instrumental Sesc Brazil' YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@InstrumentalSescBrasil

Totally agree. 👍

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