'17 Hills' dissected Part 3 of 3

Thomas Dolby describes how he put strings on his song 17 Hills from the EP 'Amerikana', starting with a MIDI/sample sequence which he later replaced with the string quartet Ethel; and a fiddle solo from Cape Breton musician Natalie MacMaster. He also talks about vocals, and previews his next EP 'Oceanea' which is released 29th Nov 2010 (fan club members only!) - go to http://www.thomasdolby.com

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Music

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• Thomas Dolby
• thomas
• dolby
• string quartet
• ProTools
• Logic
• vocals
• amerikana
• oceanea
• recording

[nipponhouseplayer]

Your right Thomas, very very colorful. We are working on cleaning blades by helicopter so the ice or dirt does not damage the integrity of the blade by undo stress by the weight out on the ends. Technology can bring us back on center be it your phantom keyboard or extremely controlable digital devices.

[kenltron]

Very instructional--thank you! I'm a rank amateur at this, but your work with Mark Knopfler and trying to get what you were looking for reminds me of how I work with a guitarist friend of mine. I did the same thing with a violinist/keyboard player who was recording some Mellotron tracks for a piece we were making up on the spot. I blurted out, "What about Spanish Guitar?", and he dialed that up on the Mellotron Mark II, and that turned out to be a great cap to what we were working on.

[innerstatejt]

Good tune Thomas... I hear a tad of steely Dan inyour voice. :-)

[davidfromlille]

Great work Thomas !

[gemfincl]

Very cool, thanks!