Bytw u ladies are beautiful and such talent, the men 2. I use all these songs for some fire poi and staff. God bless you keeping songs alive my family and I would dance to and lip sync lol
Non musicians, don't read this comment. It's over your head, you won't understand it and you'll just get mad at me for being critical. Spare me the hate. This is meant for the band to hear. The horns were addicted to playing too staccato all of the time. On all of the Quincy Jones produced stuff (all of the Donna Summer stuff, Earth, Wind, and Fire stuff and a lot more), Jerry Hey, one of the greatest in the business wrote those arrangements and along with Gary Grant, played the trumpet parts on the recordings. If you want to be the real deal, you need to play the same kind of articulations as those guys did on the recordings. Always playing over-staccato doesn't cut it. It sounds weak and actually sloppier since the two of your aren't that tight on it. Sometimes, where appropriate, staccato sounds crisper and better, but it's got to be tight. You guys weren't tight enough with each other and it's hard to be tight when you're all out of breath from dancing around. Just emulate the articulations on the recordings and you'll be fine. Trumpet player: That high F# - E - F# line on "Play That Funky Music" is iconic. You playing it an octave down is a major buzzkill and disappointing. You're got to play it up an octave as it is on the recording. If you can't do it, they should get someone who can. Some backup vocal parts were missing at times, making it sound empty. Why don't you have the bass player or some of the guys in the band singing high harmonies falsetto when the lead female vocalist is occupied by the lead part? Also, in some places, the background vocal parts overshadowed the lead or melody part. Find a way to make those lead parts stand out more. It's kind of a waste having a spot in the band occupied by a percussionist. Percussionists aren't necessary and on the FEW songs on which it's good to have a percussionist, you can have your male lead singer play percussion. It's not hard to do. Anyone can do it with a little practice and maybe a lesson or two. That spot in the band would be much better served by having a third horn. I don't like trombone as the third horn, the trombone weighs down the horn parts and takes away from the richness of the sound - makes it more hollow-sounding. The best-sounding 3-piece horn section would be two trumpets and a saxophonist who plays tenor most of the time, alto sometimes, and bari sometimes. Some tunes require that low part and the bari sax fits the bill perfectly without having that clumsy sound that trombones have. The showmanship was good, choreography was good, the continuity was good, and the costumes were good. The vocalists are good. The two females voices are different styles and complement each other well. Strong voices. I don't envy the horn players having to do all of that dancing around and then having to play. It makes it harder to play clean that way. By the way, was that percussion and drum soli thing right before "Turn the Beat Around" a mimic of what Paul Anka's band does on "Jubilation" in Anka's show? Sounds like the same idea with even some of the same rhythms.
Band is amazing
Thank you!!!
Bytw u ladies are beautiful and such talent, the men 2. I use all these songs for some fire poi and staff. God bless you keeping songs alive my family and I would dance to and lip sync lol
Thank you so much for your kind words!
Omg I LOVE YOU ALL
Intro with Frankie, cool
nice catch!
I'd be front and center jamming out w y'all
yesss!!!
Non musicians, don't read this comment. It's over your head, you won't understand it and you'll just get mad at me for being critical. Spare me the hate. This is meant for the band to hear. The horns were addicted to playing too staccato all of the time. On all of the Quincy Jones produced stuff (all of the Donna Summer stuff, Earth, Wind, and Fire stuff and a lot more), Jerry Hey, one of the greatest in the business wrote those arrangements and along with Gary Grant, played the trumpet parts on the recordings. If you want to be the real deal, you need to play the same kind of articulations as those guys did on the recordings. Always playing over-staccato doesn't cut it. It sounds weak and actually sloppier since the two of your aren't that tight on it. Sometimes, where appropriate, staccato sounds crisper and better, but it's got to be tight. You guys weren't tight enough with each other and it's hard to be tight when you're all out of breath from dancing around. Just emulate the articulations on the recordings and you'll be fine. Trumpet player: That high F# - E - F# line on "Play That Funky Music" is iconic. You playing it an octave down is a major buzzkill and disappointing. You're got to play it up an octave as it is on the recording. If you can't do it, they should get someone who can. Some backup vocal parts were missing at times, making it sound empty. Why don't you have the bass player or some of the guys in the band singing high harmonies falsetto when the lead female vocalist is occupied by the lead part? Also, in some places, the background vocal parts overshadowed the lead or melody part. Find a way to make those lead parts stand out more. It's kind of a waste having a spot in the band occupied by a percussionist. Percussionists aren't necessary and on the FEW songs on which it's good to have a percussionist, you can have your male lead singer play percussion. It's not hard to do. Anyone can do it with a little practice and maybe a lesson or two. That spot in the band would be much better served by having a third horn. I don't like trombone as the third horn, the trombone weighs down the horn parts and takes away from the richness of the sound - makes it more hollow-sounding. The best-sounding 3-piece horn section would be two trumpets and a saxophonist who plays tenor most of the time, alto sometimes, and bari sometimes. Some tunes require that low part and the bari sax fits the bill perfectly without having that clumsy sound that trombones have. The showmanship was good, choreography was good, the continuity was good, and the costumes were good. The vocalists are good. The two females voices are different styles and complement each other well. Strong voices. I don't envy the horn players having to do all of that dancing around and then having to play. It makes it harder to play clean that way. By the way, was that percussion and drum soli thing right before "Turn the Beat Around" a mimic of what Paul Anka's band does on "Jubilation" in Anka's show? Sounds like the same idea with even some of the same rhythms.
Thank you for your in-dept comment!
@@BoogieWonderBand You're welcome. Hope you're all doing well.
Appreciate what they're giving. Wath bands did you play with?
@@mauveblanccelestrium8888 I've played with plenty of bands, and they all sounded significantly better than these guys.
recording artist?