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09-08-2010, 09:52 AM
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Hi guys,
I have been playing Red Dead Redemption lately and the spaghetti western soundtrack is just plain awesome. I'd really like to experiment with this style of music but I dont know where to begin. It almost sounds like a form of minimalist surf rock to me.
Any reccomended listening or basic patterns for basslines that you guys know of? Are there any common guitar chords or chord progressions that are used.
Thanks for your help.
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09-08-2010, 10:02 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Finland | | | Recommended listening? Go to the source and get a good collection of Ennio Morricone.
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09-08-2010, 10:08 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: HWY 61 | | | Very interested. Where did you find the soundtrack, or what source can you recommend in finding another?
Also, mods might want to move to recordings section?
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09-08-2010, 10:24 AM
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09-08-2010, 10:27 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Milwaukee WI | | | Cool thanks guys, also, I know the read dead redemption soundtrack is available on itunes. One of the tracks has a real cool old vintage p-bass sound.
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09-08-2010, 11:16 AM
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EXAR pedals rep for North & Central America | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: PDX, OR | | | Also check out soundtracks by Angelo Badalamenti. There's often baritone guitar with tremolo and reverb, a very haunting sound. |
09-08-2010, 11:59 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia | | If you're interested, check out the game "Gundead Defense" on iTunes (for iPod/iPhone) - my band did the soundtrack in the style of post-apocalyptic zombie western 
I used my Stingray (tuned BEAD) and my jazz, I think. Also played some baritone guitar doubled with the BEAD bass, that's how you get that thick, tic-tac bass sound!!
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09-08-2010, 12:04 PM
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09-08-2010, 12:37 PM
|  | Holding the Line, Low, Loud & Proud | | Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Leander, TX (outside Austin) | | | Just love Spaghetti Westerns, the music the places the characters, one of my favorites is "My Name Is Nobody" Morricone and the other composer arrangers were so clever using unusual instruments. |
09-08-2010, 01:25 PM
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Originally Posted by etherealme | lol. too late. |
09-08-2010, 01:37 PM
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Managing Editor, Bass Guitars Editor, MusicGearReview.com | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Pittsburgh, PA | | There's an Ennio Morricone westerns music soundtrack collection that is wonderful. http://www.amazon.com/Legendary-Ital...ref=pd_sim_m_1
There's also a very interesting video about the Red Dead music: http://www.rockstargames.com/reddead...n/#/video:5121
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09-08-2010, 01:51 PM
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Originally Posted by bassbrad Just love Spaghetti Westerns, the music the places the characters, one of my favorites is "My Name Is Nobody" Morricone and the other composer arrangers were so clever using unusual instruments. | Are you guys talking about A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, and Once Upon a Time in the West?
Waa-i-a-i-aaah waah waah waaaaah!
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09-08-2010, 03:47 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Milwaukee WI | | | Great now I'm fighting the urge to buy a JazzVI....but thanks for the great links guys. It also looks like you can't go wrong with A minor...
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09-08-2010, 03:49 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Central Alabama | | | My father (bless his heart) has soundtracks for all those Clint Eastwood movies (Fist full of dollars, etc.) He loves that stuff! |
09-08-2010, 04:11 PM
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Originally Posted by Stinsok My father (bless his heart) has soundtracks for all those Clint Eastwood movies (Fist full of dollars, etc.) He loves that stuff! | The soundtrack for The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly is outstanding! |
09-08-2010, 07:32 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Dunfermline, Scotland | | You could also have a listen to some of the Pickin On series
Bluegrass covers, sounds like it shouldn't work but some of it does.
Have a listen to Pickin on Led Zeppelin (amazon.com)
That Seasick Steve, Ennio Morricone and Johnny Cash featured pretty heavily on the playlist when I was playing through Red Dead Redemption
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09-08-2010, 07:36 PM
|  | Evil Alien | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Sacramento, CA | | | There's a sound in the RDR music that pops up often that sounds like the Mellotron "electric guitar" tapes.
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