MIDIfiles for guitarists!

"Surfing with the Alien" by Joe Satriani
From the album "Surfing with the Alien"
Sequenced by Cesare Tirabassi


Here is my MIDI (Cakewalk 3.0) version, that can be used as a back-up band for
lone or practicing guitarists. The file should be fully GM/GS compatible, at
least it plays perfectly on my Roland SC-55.
The sequence is arranged with the following instruments:

Ch. 2 - 3   : E. Guitar Rhythm. The channels are panned with a little delay to 
	      give some spaciousness. The tracks are velocity encoded. If you
              have some other module or keyboard apart a GS/GM synth, assign a 
	      patch to be played for velocity below or equal to 100 and another
	      to be played for velocity above 100. The former should be a 
	      "muted" type of e. guitar, and the latter a normal e. guitar. 
	      I use myself a Roland U-110, with the e. guitar expansion card.
Ch. 5       : Bass Guitar (slap). 
Ch. 10      : Drums. A "Room" patch is assigned.
Ch. 12 - 13 : Effects (Initial jet and reverse cymbal).
Ch. 15      : Sysex. If you have a SC-55, look at its display ... otherwise it
              just send a GS reset message.

The sequence is free, and can be copied to friends, colleagues and even 
enemies ;-).
All I ask is to keep this text file with it and maintain it as a cakewalk file.
I would appreciate it if you have any feedback, even more if you make any
improvement to the sequence and you can email me the improved version :-).
My email is:

ctirabas@vmprofs.estec.esa.nl or
ctirabas@bitnet.estec

ctirabas@estec.esa.nl should work as well.

Have fun, and keep on strumming!

Cesare

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