Boy Scouts in Bossa Nova

I love my little red Yamaha SHS-10! I was playing around with programming odd rhythms into its chord memory and could not believe what it did to my old Åäd Nøys song "Boy Scouts in Love" with its "bossa nova" style. Set these on "repeat forever" and samba your heart out:

Here's just the backing track (after considerable fiddling to render the drum track into something like General MIDI drums),
here it is with the block chords added,
here with just the bass line added,
here with the chords and vocal line, and
here's the whole mess.

Different General MIDI players render them differently, of course; they sound most like my SHS-10 when played with the built-in instruments in the standard ESS 1688 chipset driver (using, for instance, plain old Windows Media Player). Here's a RealAudio rendition of the backing track.

27 May 2001

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