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track: 66

recorded: 20170207-20180103

duration 4:37

type: active




this track marks the debut appearance of the remarkable Yonac Steel Guitar application, which I've been using on it's own for a long time, but only recently brought into Garage Band through the absolute magic of Inter-App Audio - and I found that by blending the steel guitar's amazing sound with my standard Garage Band rhythm section and korg synths, was a sound experiment I wish I'd thought of long before.

I also worked on this track for quite some time, one of the first or the first to be completed in 2018, and the way I constructed this was really quite traditional - I had the rhythm track, bass, drums, and keys, all done and set. I started playing takes of steel guitar...I'd record a full sweep of the song one day - then again, the next, then again, the next but maybe I would play melodies only, then, another day just playing chords or picking chords - until I had something like 9 or 10 full tracks of steel guitar - and each one, was a "mix" of good and bad, in tune and horribly out of tune (as anyone who has played real steel guitar knows, staying in tune is the entire trick of being good at the instrument - and thankfully, I learned enough during the recording of this track, that there was more than enough really-quite-in-tune material to use, to assemble a nice composite track of chords, picked content, and "leads" - which are mostly solo, but occasionally, as in the last 30 or 40 seconds of the song, they are "stacked" to get a really thick sound - so, one "rhythm" and two "lead" steel guitars at the most dense.

I really love the sound of the Yonac instrument, and I am a user of several of their other instrument apps - I like the musical instruments they make, and the steel guitar has always been a soft spot for me - and what a joy to be ABLE to play steel - even if it is only "virtual" - I still played it, on the tiny iPhone screen - and I had a blast doing it - a lot of fun, and the result is very satisfying indeed - I think it creates a lovely atmospheric sound.

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from music for apps: garage band, released November 17, 2016
dave stafford - apple garage band application
virtual instrument played by dave stafford: yonac steel guitar

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dave stafford Stirling, UK

ambient loop guitarist dave stafford performed on stage with robert fripp and the orchestra of crafty guitarists in early 2009, and again with robert fripp and the symphony of crafty guitarists in 2015, and has worked with ambient music and looping for over twenty years. stafford has a rich back catalogue of ambient and loop music, +rock, prog or acoustic crafty guitar music: www.pureambient.com ... more

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