Cafe Salmonella

This is me sticking my foot a little into the blues/rock groove....just a bit....

A fun little tune, the solo section normally repeats four times, but for the sake of the listeners I reduced it to two...If you happen to have an instrument handy, feel free to play along, lol!

Anyhow, I experimented a lot on this piece, and I spent nearly a month getting that quasi-key change right...it still feels awkward... Fortunately, the awesome muted guitar part makes up for that.

Suggestions? Comments?

~Kal

_You can't hear the guitars that well in the midi one, FYI....

Cafe Salmonella.MUS

Cafe Salmonella.MID

This is a nice Bluesy/soft rock piece. Any chance you can post a MP3?

OMG i want to learn from you, this piece was just fantastic, it reminded me of Megaman =D

teach me the ways

and an MP3 version would be nice.

I must say I'm impressed...

Great piece/song you have made. Isn't there a band or something that would play it and record it?

It'd be perfect!

Thanks for the reviews!

It would be kind of tough to get a band with all of the instruments used together to record it...

2 guitars

Alto sax

bass

drumset

congos and bongas

triangle, guiro, bell tree, vibraslap

Piano

Clavi

Synth

Viberaphone

etc...

As for an mp3 version, I don't know of any free hosting sites. Any suggestions?

~Kal

E-snips seems to work.

Multi-track recording... you could ask around...

Great piece by the way, hillarious title

I like those intermezzi of different instruments coming out of nowhere with a nice motive. And how you come back to the main theme with that sax. Nice, cute piece! At 3:05: how unexpected, you give new information. Very interesting.

Now you can mix it in real instrument sound and it will be awesome!

I'm jamming!!! =)

I really like it, mp3 please? :thumbsup:

I like those intermezzi of different instruments coming out of nowhere with a nice motive. And how you come back to the main theme with that sax. Nice, cute piece! At 3:05: how unexpected, you give new information. Very interesting.

Thanks...I was working on that part long after the song was finished.

Great piece by the way, hillarious title

Thanks. Yeah....originally I was thinking of having background vocals singing "Welcome to Ca-fe Salmonella!" Or something like that with the sax part at the end of the head.

~Kal

Thanks. Yeah....originally I was thinking of having background vocals singing "Welcome to Ca-fe Salmonella!" Or something like that with the sax part at the end of the head.

~Kal

Don't do it.:P

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Don't do it.:P

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Sheesh....whenever I mention vocals around here I get a resounding "No.":whistling:

~Kal

OMG i want to learn from you, this piece was just fantastic, it reminded me of Megaman =D

teach me the ways

and an MP3 version would be nice.

Sounded DKR-y to me.

Sounded DKR-y to me.

Okay, I've heard of megaman, but DKR? No clue.

What's next, Crash Bandicoot?:P

Personally, I don't think it sounds very video-gamey, but then again, I don't play a lot of video games....

I think I'm gonna go check out E-snips now...

~Kal

maybe it'd go good with a swingy feel in a jazz band/ large combo of some sort.

groovy man.

here's something: when I heard that quick sax riff on the turnaround I expected a solo or change... but it didnt go anywhere.. maybe you should hold that out.

cool song man

here's something: when I heard that quick sax riff on the turnaround I expected a solo or change... but it didnt go anywhere.. maybe you should hold that out.

Thanks...

Originally, it was supposed to go into a sax solo, then to a vibe solo, then piano, and finally a bluesy electric guitar solo, but I got lazy and didn't bother writing one in.

~Kal

Never thought salmonella could sound so sexy!

Two thumbs up!

Great job! i love this piece.

I like it; like, I really like it, it's a good song to solo over...

But; and this is not a criticism, really more so an observation; I am reminded of three songs that sound like the verse (i.e. same progression, similar tempo, etc.):

Santana, "Evil Ways"

Edgar Winter Group, "Frankenstein" (not the main riff, but everything from the synth solo to the sax part)

and The Doors, "Peace Frog"

But the fact remains, I DO enjoy the song. :)

I really enjoyed it. Funky!:P

I like it; like, I really like it, it's a good song to solo over...

But; and this is not a criticism, really more so an observation; I am reminded of three songs that sound like the verse (i.e. same progression, similar tempo, etc.):

Santana, "Evil Ways"

Edgar Winter Group, "Frankenstein" (not the main riff, but everything from the synth solo to the sax part)

and The Doors, "Peace Frog"

But the fact remains, I DO enjoy the song. :)

Thanks, but....

Evil Ways? I can't say I hear much of a resemblance, while I can think of 14 other songs that have a similar chord progression...

~Kal

Man, this is a piece. You've got some fearsomely potent groove going on here, as well as some really thick textures. In some parts, there's so much tasty stuff going on that I don't know what to listen to. Nothing much here to criticize; just wanted to express my satisfaction, and also to bump this thread so that other people get to hear it.

Man, this is a piece. You've got some fearsomely potent groove going on here, as well as some really thick textures. In some parts, there's so much tasty stuff going on that I don't know what to listen to.

Thanks!

When I wrote this tune, I decided to move all the texture I normally gave to a cornocopia of percussion instruments into the keyboards/synth/guitar lines, and it worked.

Without looking at the score, you can't even here some of the little things thrown in there...

You'll also hear that, besides one spot in the melody, the only sixteenth notes are played in the muted guitar part...

~Kal

Since it got me dancing. I enjoyed it. Yes, indeed this has quite the groove, and arrangment. I take it its for a full Jazz ensemble? Or a quintet?

Since it got me dancing. I enjoyed it. Yes, indeed this has quite the groove, and arrangment. I take it its for a full Jazz ensemble? Or a quintet?

Erm....niether really. I guess it's more for my rediculous ideal dream band of many rhythm with a few horns....

But I suppose some sort of combo could play it...

~Kal

Man, this is a piece. You've got some fearsomely potent groove going on here, as well as some really thick textures. In some parts, there's so much tasty stuff going on that I don't know what to listen to. Nothing much here to criticize; just wanted to express my satisfaction, and also to bump this thread so that other people get to hear it.

Thanks!

Before this, I was adding all the textures to my pieces with percussion (congas, shakers, tambourines, guiros). But then I thought of switching it to melodic instruments instead, layering those two guitar riffs with the little clavi thing based around the electric piano.....

~Kal