Mustang Sally (ocarina)

By Mack Rice, covered by Wilson Pickett and others. Played on Mountain G aluminum inline ocarina. There's a great recording of this song from the movie "The Commitments". The ocarina cover was, um, waiting to happen. As you can tell, the track ended before I was quite ready, but that's okay; it's rock and roll. The reverb setting I used for this (from DX Reverb Lite's presets) was "medium room warm," because I needed a little more body to mix into that backing track, which is pretty strong. For a solo tune, or with just guitar backing, I think that would be too much reverb. Hopefully it's about right in this mix.

The mp3 is at http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3576175/mustang%20sally.mp3

Category:

Music

Tags:

• mustang
• sally
• mack
• rice
• wilson
• pickett
• commitments
• mountain
• ocarina
• inline
• aluminum
• blues

[airmojo]

Your MO is in G... but you are playing in the key of D... like a blues harmonica player... correct ? I play blues harp, and my G harp is in tune with what your are playing, but I'm playing in crossharp (2nd position)... just ordered a G and C polycarbonate MO's... You sound great !

[ubizmo]

@airmojo Yup, the ocarina is in G, but that tune is in D, because it just works better in that key. The limited range of the ocarina often requires picking the one that's closes and then possibly transposing the tune a bit, to make it fit.

[DamynSmith]

You might hear this a lot, but you should play some Legend of Zelda music, people would probably like it. You seem very talented too so the songs would be easy to learn.

[ubizmo]

@DamynSmith Thanks for the kind words. I'm not a big fan of the Zelda music, myself, and that's why I don't play it. But there are plenty of talented ocarina players on YouTube who do a good job with it.

[Commonsensitivity]

My daughter and I just got our first ocarina's and you are an inspiration

[ubizmo]

@Commonsensitivity Wow that's very nice, thank you. I hope you have a lot of fun with them.

[GuitarOcarina64]

ah, thats wat i was waiting for!!!

[2007kokor]

Great Job :=)

[markal363]

Terrific Ub!

[GabeGT]

Lovin' the jazz! Keep it up!