[linux-audio-user] Samba felidae - call for soloists :)

[Ken Restivo]

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On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 01:11:40AM +0100, Florian Schmidt wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> i've written a little lo-fi samba tune called "Samba felidae" (lo-fi because 
> all that was used was my guitar and a shaker and because my microphone isn't 
> the best). And i think a solo by a non-guitar instrument  would be quite nice 
> on it :)
> 
> So if anyone likes the tune and also likes to play a solo over it, please go 
> ahead..Or if you want to add anything else, go ahead, too :)
> 
> Anyways, here's a link:
> 
> http://tapas.affenbande.org/samba_felidae.ogg
> 
> It goes through the "melody" first for two times, then around 1:20 a full form 
> is played just with backing chords which leaves space for soloing until 2:04. 
> After that it goes through the head once again and then some pointless 
> noodling ;)  But feel free to do what you want with it really :)
> 
> Changes are:
> 
> A:
> ||Ebmaj7  |                  |Bbmaj7 |               |
> |Am7b5  |D7              |Gm7     |                 |
> |Cm7 F7| Dm7  Gm7 |Abmaj7 |                |
> |D7       |                    ||
> 
> A':
> ||Ebmaj7  |                  |Bbmaj7 |               |
> |Am7b5  |D7              |Gm7     |                 |
> |A7         |                   |Dsus          |           |
> |E7         |                   |A7            |             ||
> 

That is a wonderful song! Wish I could write songs like that; most of mine only have two chords at most. Yours is much more interesting to listen to.

I've had great fun jamming to it too. As soon as I figure out WTF to play over the A7 Dsus4 E7 A7 that sounds right to me, I'll send you an ogg and/or MIDI file.

I love that Abmaj7; I tend to use that chord a lot too.

Whomever it was that played a harmonic minor or Hungarian minor scale over the D7 did the right thing IMHO. I keep finding myself doing that too and AFAICT it seems to work really well.

This is a great model for collaboration too. Have you heard of http://www.ccmixter.org ? It seems to be populated with a lot of DJ/trance/hiphop/house type players/producers, but it's a good place to put a track or loop and let others interpret/remix it. 

Hmm, maybe the world needs a linuxmixter.org? I'll bet all the code for ccmixter is GPL (or, CC "share-alike").

- -ken
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