Mandschurian Beat

eSGEe said:
well done man -- how you do all dat???
drums?? bass? you play all of them or backing tracks??? looper drum machine?? Give man GIVE

(OR are you secretly Dick Dale????????)
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Thanks :D

I try to be as lazy as I can, otherwise I can't get anything done. That sounds a bit paradoxical now that I think of it ;) So I didn't learn or play anything but the lead part.

There are some backing tracks on Youtube but they're all of the Ventures 1971 (or 1974 live) versions which are half a step higher than how I like to play this. But I found a MIDI file from some Japanese site that was in the right key. I imported the MIDI into Reaper, split it into separate tracks and put VST instruments on them, everything is just on their default settings:
- Ample Guitar M Lite II for the backing guitar
- Ample Bass P Lite II for the bass - this seems to always require the track to be transposed up one octave
- MT Power Drumkit 2 for the drums
- There's a keyboard track too but it gets really weird in the end so I left it on mute.

Sped it up a bit and removed the tempo change meta-events it had before the modulation. Then it only took about a hundred tries to record the guitar track :)
 
aon said:
Thanks :D

I try to be as lazy as I can, otherwise I can't get anything done. That sounds a bit paradoxical now that I think of it ;) So I didn't learn or play anything but the lead part.

There are some backing tracks on Youtube but they're all of the Ventures 1971 (or 1974 live) versions which are half a step higher than how I like to play this. But I found a MIDI file from some Japanese site that was in the right key. I imported the MIDI into Reaper, split it into separate tracks and put VST instruments on them, everything is just on their default settings:
- Ample Guitar M Lite II for the backing guitar
- Ample Bass P Lite II for the bass - this seems to always require the track to be transposed up one octave
- MT Power Drumkit 2 for the drums
- There's a keyboard track too but it gets really weird in the end so I left it on mute.

Sped it up a bit and removed the tempo change meta-events it had before the modulation. Then it only took about a hundred tries to record the guitar track :)
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I dont understand 90% of that -- but the result is AWESOME -- keep up the great work!!!! ;)
 
SG John said:
Some great surf music out of Finland over the years. I love Laika and the Cosmonauts. Seen them live, and they were incredible.
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Nice! Just listened to some of the Absurdistan album on my way back from the barber :) Sounds quite familiar, I think I had it on loan from the library ages ago.

To be fair, I guess a lot of the other Finnish stuff isn't strictly surf i guess. For instance there are a lot of songs that are traditional melodies that first got made into popular schlager songs (for a lack of better word) in the 1950s and then got covered by the instrumental "Rautalanka" ("iron wire") groups in the 1960's. Those groups then were occasionally backing groups to more "schlager" singers and so there's a fair bit of crosstalk between the genres (maybe a local puritan will find my comment on google and sign up and completely crucify me for saying this ;))

Japan seems to have a similar scene inspired mostly by the Ventures. And some of the Finnish / Swedish groups were quite popular over there as well it seems... at least The Spotnicks from Sweden and The Sounds from Finland. Here's a Takeshi Terauchi cover of a Finnish traditional for you:

 
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