Improvised jam from last night's rehearsal

[TwilightOdyssey]

The solo section for one of our live songs has an improvised jam over a sequencer loop. This is totally unrehearsed and every time we try to bring something different into the mix. Ideas shift and morph as we play around each other. Makes for a rather trippy experience, proceed with caution.

[BriGuy1968]

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Pretty cool... very "Yes-ish" (at least to my ears). Nice build too!

Of course, you realize that you have a ten-minute solo "section" for one song, right? How long is the song in its entirety?

[TwilightOdyssey]

Re: Improvised jam from last night's rehearsal

Pretty cool... very "Yes-ish" (at least to my ears). Nice build too!

Thanks for listening!

Of course, you realize that you have a ten-minute solo "section" for one song, right?

Yup, quite aware. Though, to be fair, the last minute is the actual end of the song, so it's more like a 9-minute interlude. 10 minutes would just be self-indulgent. :P

How long is the song in its entirety?

The studio version of the song is about 8:20 long. The live version tends to be anywhere from 11-15 minutes depending on the interlude and when I feel we should bring it to an end.

This is a Crossover/Neo-Prog project so it's in keeping with the rest of the songs. And thanks for the Yes reference, there are lots of Yes (and Rush, Pink Floyd, Tangerine Dream, yadda yadda yadda) allusions in the songs.

[AmirH]

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Had me until like 3:43, though there's some very fast shredding happening after that the guitars sound like they're fighting with each other until 8.40, then it all comes back together and sounds cool again.

[TwilightOdyssey]

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Thanks for listening! That section continues to morph and is never the same twice, but thanks for your impressions!

[Demanic]

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Interesting.

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[TwilightOdyssey]

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Interesting.

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That's one word for it!
Thanks for listening!

[Ascension]

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Play in open Worship environments and we do stuff like that all the time. I will always have a recorder going as you never know when some thing really COOL will just happen in a spontaneous jam. If you record then you have a record and can go back use an idea or recreate a spontaneous moment then turn it into a real song. Cool to hear others doing this!
Here are a couple examples from some of the stuff we have pulled out of nothing.
This was a spontaneous tune from an event we did and I had my little Sony SX 700 just laying on a chair out front. Had there been no recording it would have been gone after the moment.

https://app.box.com/s/hi3so3xhrf4m758wxbvw

Really cool little open Worship jam of an impromptu group of musicians again recorded with the little Sony just sitting on a table in the back.

https://app.box.com/s/hcffmbpity6127puiafl

Different team same recorder just sitting on a window sill.

https://app.box.com/s/q6u4nggyksy02m4mttdr

This is one of those good old fashioned Black Pentecostal Church PRAISE BREAKS! Think tent revival scene blues Brothers 2 LOL!!

https://app.box.com/s/oicspf1z95u8etuuav8o

Another team again same little recorder total off the cuff song so--.

https://app.box.com/shared/x9bzd9cdm8

PS playing the little Zinky Velvet on all the clips.

[Demanic]

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Reminds me of late 70's Rush.

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