An Irish rock

[deweak]

Belfast

Here is my first Irish style music. Fusion makes the pad, sub percussion and bass. All lead instruments are V-Synth GT AP-Synthesis programs. Drums are not very good, but I practice for one year only and I didn't want to program EZDrummer today :-)

Darbuka and tambourine are real ones.

Recording and editing : Samplitude.

[rainbow]

Great! I enjoyed that one Drums are fine ... gives the track a live feel imo

[mickydireland]

From an Irish lad who lives only a stones throw away from Belfast, very good indeed.

I am thinking you like that celtic jig style.



The first segment is done by the Afro Celt Sound System.
Your style and theirs I like very much.

Your arrangement is excellent and the drums are fine! Humanise..... humanise...... humanise...
;D

[jpvideo]

Being a 'Yankee' living in a constitutional republic you know I still love this kind of stuff (Jigs and Reels). Maybe I was Celtic in one of my past lives. Good job.

[deweak]

Yeah, those musics are so happy, that's great ! Thanks for the links :-)

[mickydireland]

Wow! That is one famous pub in Westport.

Brilliant spot! I love to visit there for the drinking! lol.

You all have to pay a visit there at some stage.

[Hollow Sun]

I was put in mind of this....



Which I think is absolutely staggering!

[suilebhain]

Now, as the grandson of an exiled son of the Old Sod, I have to throw in my two pennies.

First of all, really great work!

However, and this could be intentional, considering you called it Belfast and not Dublin, is that the feel is more Scottish than Irish.

Still Gaelic, yes, indeed, but the rhythm is more of the straight-out 4/4 that eventually migrated during the 1800's to the States and became Bluegrass.

A jig or reel has a 6/8 feel, and if the piece is 4/4, there is still a bit more of a triplet feel happening. Also, the drum, which is very coo, sounds more like a Moroccan or Middle Eastern drum, like a dumbeg, than a bodhran, which sounds more like a galloping horse, and when played provides that rolling, triplet based throb that is nearly essential to much (but not all) Irish traditional music.

[deweak]

Thanks for these information :-)

You know, my drumming is very very basic since I've played for only one year, so I can't play too complicated things for the moment. I'm way better at programming EZDrummer but recording live drums is a good exercise to hear what's wrong and to keep a trace of my improvements.

[deweak]

Last sunday, when I played the organ at the local church, I've made a 15 minutes improvisation including the "Belfast" melodies... it was pretty cool !

[alchemus]

Nice one deweak!