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'Overdriven Guitar' and 'Distortion Guitar' are good patches for this.
Random MPC Pitch Bends may also work.

I should probably be noted that Caleb was describing someone else's situation. Caleb was a NWC2 Tester/User at the time of starting this topic.

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I reviewed the newsgroup logs, and there is not any record of a failed access in the last 24 hours.  Are you connecting to the correct server? It is:

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That would depend on what's available in your MIDI synth or soundfont...

E.G. in my Yamaha S-YXG50 softsynth there is a church bell at patch 14 in bank 96, or a "Christmas Bell" at patch 98 in bank 67...  There are probably others too...

Otherwise, you might find the "Chromatic Percussion" from patches 7 to 14 in the standard GM set may hold something useful for you - particularly patch 14 which is the tubular bells.

Other than that I can't really help.

As far as I know, GM2 now includes what used to be GS and/or XG drum kits, and specifically:

ProgChange       Name
 MSB  LSB
 000  000        Standard Kit
 001  000        Standard Kit 2
 004  000        Hit Kit
 008  000        Room Kit
 016  000        Rock (Power) Kit
 024  000        Electronic Kit
 025  000        Analog Kit
 026  000        Dance Kit
 032  000        Jazz Kit
 040  000        Brush Kit
 048  000        Symphony (Orchestra) Kit
 056  000        Sound Effects (SFX) Kit

If your synth is not too old or if your synth is automatically in GS or XG mode you should not have any problem inserting an instrument change command with the relevant ProgChange values.

I can confirm that the attached MPC does exactly what you show in your reply, and it plays back as you want.

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!NoteWorthyComposerClip(2.0,Single)
|Instrument|Name:"Violin"|Patch:40|Trans:0|DynVel:10,30,45,60,75,92,108,127|Pos:-8|Wide:Y
|MPC|Controller:vol|Style:Linear Sweep|TimeRes:Quarter|SweepRes:1|Pt1:0,20|Pt2:3,127|Pos:7|Wide:Y
|Note|Dur:Half,Dotted|Pos:2
!NoteWorthyComposerClip-End

In a word, no. Depends on how authentic you're trying to be, of course: but the drumming patterns are wrong, and so are the intervals. Native American music uses the pentatonic scale, with microtonal inflections. Translation: the black keys of the piano (or the equivalent intervals on the white keys), with ornaments that bend away from those notes by less than half a step. Drumming patterns tend to start slow and then speed up, rather than drive straight through, and the music is unmetrical (not 3/4, 4/4, or the like, but with free accents).

That's a quick summary. I suggest going to Wikipedia and typing in "Native American music." I haven't read the article, so I can't comment on its accuracy, but the table of contents looks adequate, and there is a section of samples so you can listen to some of the real stuff.

Again, it depends on how accurate you're trying to be. If you want something that's basically a rock tune that can accompany Native American characters in a production that is otherwise rock-based, this will probably fill the bill. If you want to make it sound reasonably close to what Native American music sounded like, it won't.