SUMMERTIME MADNESS SONG PATCH
SUMMERTIME MADNESS SONG FREE

The last part of the track to get in place is the strings swell. Once the Drummer region was rendered to MIDI I spent time messing with the ride and hi-hat pattern and tweaking the velocities so as to not over cook this. The laid-back drums are courtesy of Logic’s Drummer plugin – a handy tool for quickly generating convincing(ish) acoustic drum loops and being able to tweak the drum kit used. Without a bass guitar available to me I’ve used Native Instruments’ free Kontakt Player, rolling off the Tone and turning the Noise up, also disabling the internal reverb. The bass almost dictates the groove of this track, so it’s key to get the swing and feel of it right. Here’s someone much better than myself playing it, with the notes included:

SUMMERTIME MADNESS SONG PATCH

I’ve used a Fender Strat (not sure what year, sorry!) using a tweaked version of the Clean Country Reverb patch in Logic’s Amp Simulator. The guitar part is a simple repeating two chord figure that slots nicely over the Rhodes. The sound is finished off with some Channel EQ to attenuate the higher frequencies and roll off the bottom end and some Stereo Delay, just delaying the right channel. The filter’s cutoff is being modulated by keyboard tracking and envelope 2 – using a short attack, medium decay and the rise function in the sustain section. The modulation for the sound comes from LFOs 1 and 2 further detuning the oscillators, LFO1 is a triangle wave with a delay of 8200 ms running at 4.4 Hz and LFO2 is a smooth random running at a much slower rate of 0.13 Hz. I’ve used ES2’s Analog and CBD ( Constant Beat Detuning – giving yet more natural detune to the sound) and Glide, or Portamento. There’s a little chorus and distortion on the output too. The patch is built using a saw tooth and two detuned pulse waves running into a resonant low-pass filter with some drive enabled. We can get close to it using near any subtractive synth and I’m going to use Logic’s ES2 playing an F# note rising over five octaves. It’s not perfect but it gets close enough: One of the most memorable aspects of this song is the rich analog lead the sears over the groove. Here’s PlaySmoothPiano showing you how it’s done:

SUMMERTIME MADNESS SONG FREE

Finally ensure you use your ring finger for the top F# so your little finger is free to hit the G# in bar two. The dotted eighth note at the end of each bar is heavily swung. The key to this loop is getting the staccato chord just right in your left hand. The second chord’s nomenclature is more debatable but I’ve settled on C#m11. You can think of the first chord as a Dmaj7 2nd inversion in your right hand with a B in the left, giving you an overall tonality of Bm9. I’m not using any amp simulation as this sounds like DI’d to me. I’ve enabled the tremolo and set to it to 2 Hz with an intensity of 93%. I’m using Logic’s built in Electric Piano with the Suitcase Mark 1 model, the Mark II wasn’t released until 1978, and sounds a bit brighter, containing more upper harmonics. It’s a classic sound that it’s almost entered the music preset vernacular the tremolo’d Fender Rhodes. Let’s have a look at recreating something similar in Logic X.

Summer Madness is a cool, late night jazz funk slow number based around a criminally simple two chord rhodes vamp accompanied by guitar, bass, synth and drums. His version of Summer time is played more than the original,and I've been around long enough to be a judge of both.Wikipedia describes Light of Worlds as Kool’s “most spiritual and sophisticated work ” choosing “nine songs for the album to represent the nine planets in the solar system”, containing “rock-inspired funk set to jazz-informed playing with afrobeat influences and a tinge of analogue synthesizing”, which all sounds fantastic.

William from New Orleans, LaI like that song.He's much more talented than th average rapper.

Kevin from Omaha, NeKool & the Gang's version is 'jazzier' and much deeper.a better song, the fact that it isn't played as much says less about the taste of now, versus the quality of the song.

I could never get sick of listening to it.

Rain from Clinton, MdI'm a fan of both versions, although I have to say that K&TG's version is much much more enjoyable because it's longer, deeper and more classy.

Great instrument play, great lyrics about happy times in one's city.

Yos from Santo Domingo, Dominican RepublicWhy people tend to compare, it's just a perfect match.

I would say Summertime by DJ Jazzy and Fresh Prince is cool, frech, different and a song deceivine heat and maybe some hhot breeze. the options are there and each one has their own choice and taste. So, versions and samples and mixes or whatever are different too.

Jorges from Oaxaca, Mexico'This music is DIFFERENT in the most fast description' (Rap Music, sufrfrace said in the MTV's 10th anniversary RAP tribute).

Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn this day in 1991.

Summertime madness song