Island Funk

I think I first used this on my 2nd CD. I was trying to come up with a lick that had elements from both Marcus Miller and Victor Wooten. Shedding to get this to flow more freely.

Here’s the final version. I’m always trying out different styles when creating a song, but I wasn’t very satisfied with the keyboard tones I used in my earlier takes. I’ve been busy working on the tones from my m9 and decided to only use my bass along with a drum groove for this [...]

Whoo Hooo!!!! Here’s an upbeat funky track using just my Fender 4 string Jazz Bass and a line6 m9 effects pedal. I took a step back from my Island Funk ( http://barbadosguitar.com/wordpress/ ) project to work on some tone tweaking on the m9, and came up with this after a 7 minute jam. I’ll [...]

What a revelation. I finished this track in 2 days.

Big Calm (M4) by AndreDonawa

I’ve been busy wrestling with my first track ‘New Velocity’ for my Island Funk 2 album since January.

5 MONTHS AGO. ARGHHHHHHH!!!

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I tried a number of different approaches stylistically speaking, but was not happy with [...]

New Velocity (Lyrics, more synths and drum change) by AndreDonawa

Hmmmmm…. I’m going to have to finish this soon. It seems I’m taking longer between each post.

The intro was a little boring so I added a “Late Breaking News” synth line and a panning kick drum sample assortment, playing to a [...]

New Velocity (Bridge and Bass Solo) by AndreDonawa

Here’s what I have for the bridge so far. I’ll probably try to make it into some kind of bass solo and then back to the chorus.