Start to Finish: Vance Powell - Episode 9 - Recording The Clav and Congas

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Yeah, play a little bit.

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Yeah, spice that shit...

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Give it a little pepper and garlic.

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-Right? -Yeah.

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Something like that.

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Hey Jeff, we're gonna do the congas after we do this...

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a Clav, but you can play along in there to get your vibe, you know what I mean? -Cool. Thank you! -Awesome.

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You guys wanna try something? I'll just let it play.

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Sorry, I don't have any sound.

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Yeah, we're getting you there.

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Number 9.

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Number 9.

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Number 9.

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Alright, you wanna try it? Let's just see what happens.

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Here we go.

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Maybe down an octave.

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And maybe more like...

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You know what I mean? A bubbly rhythm thing.

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Yeah. Let's try that.

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How about this, just in the verses? I don't think you have to do the riff.

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Because we're gonna have a whole bunch of stuff on there.

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And the thing that would be cool for me, it's real 'percolaty'.

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Think about his riff, what he's playing, and just play against him.

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Same idea, kind of...

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You know like...

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All along.

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You got it, keep going.

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But just the verses.

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If you want more sustain pull that down.

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That's really cool up to the verse.

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Like that sort of higher mid-range register.

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Then at the verse, drop down low.

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Sort of think of it like it's a left hand of a piano but not.

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More of like...

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percolating popcorn, I don't know.

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But do you want me to do what I did just now in the Intro? Yeah, on the intro.

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-It's cool. -OK.

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Here we go.

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I can do better than that.

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Absolutely, I know you can, but that's the right idea.

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And at the top, I think you can kind of be like, in the Intro part, maybe the Clav is a little bit like the lead high.

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You know what I mean? Like a little melody part there.

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Not like super soloey but just like a little theme there.

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And then down to that little percolating part.

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Hold on, give me like 10 seconds.

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You got it.

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Play some chords.

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You know what I'm saying? Can I just groove on it a little bit and see what happens? Can you do wah-wah-wah like that? One more time.

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So, when I do the chord you...

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OK, sure.

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Some of that is pretty cool.

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It's the right idea.

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Yeah... But I wanna like...

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Yeah.

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Try that.

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Here we go.

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Both of those were great.

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Now pick up in the verse with that part, the bubbly part.

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It's just like a counter-rhythm, that's it.

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You don't have to play a lot of parts, it's just...

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You know what I mean? I think I have an idea.

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Cool, here we go.

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Leave the front and we're come in on the verse.

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That's great.

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Yeah.

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Say it again.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, just like that. Just a little part.

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It's all it has to be.

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And then he's "wah-wahling" like crazy.

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So here we go again.

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Yeah, just like that first thing.

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Yeah. Just like that.

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Can we start right on that? Sure.

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Here we go.

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The riff is different than what you played.

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What he wanted? One note down.

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That's what I did.

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Yeah, like some...

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Yeah, that's it, exactly.

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Yeah.

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Just over and over, right? It's just some part.

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You're just that other rhythm player playing over there, you know? Behind the guitar player dude.

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Here we go.

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I'm so sorry.

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Nothing to be sorry, it's great.

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Almost.

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I got it, it was one note too low.

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Yeap, here we go.

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Close.

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Close.

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Super close.

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Did I not do that? No, you went...

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It's...

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Yeah.

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I thought I was doing that.

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It's not what I played? Jesus! OK.

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Alright, let's go again.

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The first is on the upbeat the second is on the downbeat.

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Just groove it.

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The first is on the upbeat, the second on the downbeat.

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OK.

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With the bass drum.

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You got it.

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Yeah, here we go.

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I think here you could go...

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In that same octave range? Yeah.

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And he could wah.

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It's just a cool little groove thing.

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The second verse.

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The same thing.

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Cool.

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Yeah, that's all I got.

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And then nothing on the solo.

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That last note I played...

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Yeah.

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It was the wrong note, it should be one note lower.

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Alright cool, we'll punch in right at the end.

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OK.

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It feels like it should be higher.

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Are you playing a B flat there? Yeah, do a note higher.

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An octave higher? Do you mean an octave higher? Let me hear you play the first one.

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The end of the first verse there Mike.

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Yeah.

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Yeah. Cool.

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Cool.

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OK, cool. Thanks.

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Groovy.

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You don't want it an octave higher? Not, it's totally good.

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Alright let's do this congas and then we're done for the night.

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The mic pres are 25 and 26? They should be...

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OK, cool.

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Yeah, man, play those things. The funky bongos.

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Alright. Are you ready to give it a try? Sure.

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Funky bongos.

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I'll do my best.

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Yeah, man.

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So here we go, from the tippy of the hippy.

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Alright.

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Play a little bit, please.

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Alright, one more time, here we go.

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I got to be honest with you. I'm too tired to think about it.

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My brain just sort of imploded.

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I dig it.

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Yeah, let's wait till tomorrow.

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Cool? Alright. We're gonna wrap for the night.

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We're all tired.

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Grouchy.

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We got the track cut, we got the basic rhythm.

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We got a little Clav on it, because they have a Clav here.

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We just wanted it in the verse.

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We'll put some bongos.

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We'll probably end up doing that tomorrow or maybe use my little...

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I've got a little bongos.

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Tomorrow we're gonna go over to Sputnik.

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See you all tomorrow, see you later.