A MIDI Guitar 2 Project: The Real Book , vol. 1 (Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, John Coltrane)

This will be a new chapter in the MIDI guitar project’s natural evolution. The Real Book songs. It could be a song, a theme, a solo, or something related, I’ve always dreamt of learning or going into detail on. I’ll begin in the beginning with Miles, Herbie, Coltrane, and those guys. My hopes are to gradually move into the more esoteric parts with things not often played, Carla Bley, Paul Bley, Kenny Wheeler, Sam Rivers, and Eric Dolphy, to perhaps end up with those pieces I believe should have been included, but weren’t: Anthony Braxton, Tony Williams, and again Eric Dolphy. But that is in the distant future. Right now we have here the first few cuts that I think at least shine a somewhat positive light on the possibilities with using MIDI Guitar 2 with your axe of choice for the most flexible MIDI controller option I can think of at this moment in time. The songs and stuff I use here are in order:

0:00 Blue in Green - Miles Davis/Kind of Blue (SampleModeling ”The Trumpet 3”) over a Backing Track from M2 on YouTube
1:30 Flamenco Sketches - Miles Davis/Kind of Blue (SampleModeling ”The Trumpet 3”) over a Backing Track from M2 on YouTube
3:14 Maiden Voyage - Herbie Hancock/Maiden Voyage (Audio Modeling Trumpet & Tenor Saxophone, Ravenscroft 275 Piano, Fluffy Audio’s Simple Jazz Bass, and both Straight Ahead Jazz drums in Kontakt and LumBeat’s Jazz Drummer)
8:44 Circle - Miles Davis/Miles Smiles (SampleModeling ”The Trumpet 3”) over a Backing Track from M2 on YouTube
10:08 Footprints - Miles Davis/Miles Smiles (SampleModeling ”The Trumpet 3” & Audio Modeling Tenor Saxophone) over a Backing Track from M2 on YouTube
11:09 Impressions - John Coltrane/Impressions (Audio Modeling Tenor Saxophone) Aebersold Play along
12:11 All Blues - Miles Davis/Kind of Blue (SampleModeling ”The Trumpet 3”) over a Backing Track from M2 on YouTube

Let me add that these videos are going to be 100% copyright claimed, so if you feel you want to show some appreciation, please hit the LIKE button, subscribe, and by all means share this. That would make my day!

Other than that, as always, comments and questions below. I am absolutely interested in hearing what you think should be featured, but keep in mind. I am doing this very much from a happy hobbyist perspective, so I might not have all the right plugins, skills, or mutual references to do every piece justice. And I would very much like to share stuff I am happy with here.

[monsieuremile]

I’m floored! It’s actually beautiful and touching 🙏

[danthegeetarman]

Bravo! Sounds so good! Even though I knew it was midi guitar, I still had to do a double take since it sounded so real. I need to get one of those blowers soon to start utilizing it. This video is just a reminder of how much of a difference it makes!

[kingpishful]

Massively surprised how real this sounds. Just missing some valve clack.

[Anatidaephobe]

Wow, I’ve learned a lot from all your videos! Thanks so much for your demos and information on your setups. It’s difficult to find all this information in one place, especially with the trumpet and sax plugins used for jazz music. Can I ask if you ever use Xsamples trumpet? To me it’s sounds like the sound modeling Trumpet V3 seems the most realistic and musical for jazz, but wanted to ask your opinion on which trumpet and sax plugins you like best. Thanks!

[eduardomazzeo]

Congratulations for your accomplishment.
Impressive feeling and expressiveness... 
 Are you using the midi pickup of the guitars, or just Jam Origin Midi Guitar 2 ..?
And  if you can explain...., why you are switching  guitars.. The reason for asking is that I would like to buy a nice midi setup, like you have. Any advice/recommendation of what to buy, would be appreciated.. I mean, what guitars and hardware, the name of what you are using in your mouth etc...
Than you