Weight of a Whisper - Bossa Nova Smooth Jazz by Richard Wiegand and RickyMolinaProductions.com

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This music video is cross-cultural. It is a bossa nova composition, with latin music rhythms, written in the key of E major, with some quartal harmonies and a break in Em9. Originally written as a latin instrumental or ballad, the song has a flowing melody, with a tenor sax taking the lead and a jazz guitar leading the break and providing harmonies. The song is written at 120 bpm.

The visual images, however, are flamenco dance scenes from various artists. Flamenco music is a gypsy kind of music from Andalucia, southern Spain. It is often performed by female dancers who do not sing, but dance in a flowing manner, raising and lowering their arms as if to pick oranges from the tops of trees, only to squeeze them gracefully with their fingers. Singing is often done by male singers in a Morisco type of chant in the Phrygian (intense minor) mode. Rhythms typically can be heard from group clapping, foot stomping from the heels of the dancers, castinets and by the strumming of the guitars.

This musical composition is not written in the Phrygian mode, however. As mentioned, it is written in a major key, that shifts into mystical quartal harmonies at the break. The Latin rhythms are flowing and not staccato as many Flamenco rhythms are. So there's definitely a cross-cultural thing going on here. However, as a guitarist who visited southern Spain to see Flamenco dancing first-hand, I could not escape the mystery and allure of the Spanish dancers in these paintings. Notice the sequence of the aging accompanying guitarists in the video. Their guitars are held in their laps with a passion that mimics their adoration of the curvature and long necks of the Flamenco dancers themselves.

The artwork in the video is available on Pinterest.com, Etsy.com, AliExpress.com Alamy.com and CreativeCommons.org

I am currently working with a lyricist and vocalist to produce a vocal version of this song as well.

I used an Epiphone Joe Pass Emperor II to record the guitar parts. If you like the sound, you can pick one up at Guitar Center online via this link: https://guitar-center.pxf.io/6ygo7b

Another great and inexpensive jazz guitar that I highly recommend is the Ibanez AF95. You can check it out as well via this link: https://guitar-center.pxf.io/o4ynnn

Credits

Acoustic bass - Neil Swainson
Piano - Kenny Barron
Drums - Terry Clarke
Vibes - Steve Nelson
Tenor sax - Moe Tief Sixt
Guitars - Ricky Molina
Percussion - Ricky Molina
Strings - Ricky Molina

Video editing and production - Ricky Molina

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Equipment Used

The solo guitar parts were mic'd with a Rode NT-1 and DI via Boss ME-80 into a PreSonus audiobox interface - D'Angelico EXL-1 New York jazz guitar.

You can find the D'Angelico EXL-1 New York jazz guitar at Guitar Center online at https://guitar-center.pxf.io/GKgjr9

The Boss GX-100 (an improved version of the Boss ME-80 - I own and recommend both) is also available at either https://guitar-center.pxf.io/kOoZZV or on Amazon at https://amzn.to/43aR5D6

Rhythm guitar (strumming) on a Froggy Bottom acoustic guitar.

CineSymphony Litefor legato strings. Motif XF6 piano, EZ Drummer for most percussion parts. Cordoba GK Studio Negra electric classical guitar.

PreSonus Studio One Pro v3.3 DAW

Effects Plugins: Soundtoys EchBoy, Izoptope Alloy2, Ozone 6, Neutron, Slate VCC, VTM, Compression, EQ, FG-X, EZMix2, PreSonus ProEQ and FatChannel multi-strip eq/compression.


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