Dan Bates: Central California Composer

Dan Bates is a native of Central California's music scene and has been asked to sit in with more bands and has recorded in the widest varieties of musical genre that you might imagine.

 

Dan composes and orchestrates for and generates

 

It's amazing to watch him chart of complete songs as fast as they're played — announcing the chord patterns along with a variety of esoteric alternates that would work nicely as well.

 

Dan will be laying down keyboards and producing the string section for the recordings. Bates, also a professional piano tuner, has a formal understanding of harmony and theory which become a valuable part of the production for your song. This musical portion in the process of producing a professional commercial recording is very critical in that over-producing can often be a major disaster. Fortunately, we have the keen ear and skilled talents of Dan Bates to season your song with the perfect blend of musical spices.

Bates has played as a guitarist for Frank Sinatra's orchestra, as a keyboardist with members of War and has been the music director for a number of other bands.