Finally got a little bit of work done on this song I started a few weeks back. Not much has changed on it, but I put in some midi (un looped) drums in there. I’ll no doubt take these out, but I really wanted to emphasize the waltz (3\4, 6\8) nature of the song. I might have Greg or Aryn lay out a sturdy rockish beat in 3 or 6 and then track some guitar as well.
Not sure what direction this one is going but I’d like it to swing a little more than the metronomic clock-like feel it has now. I do really like the overdriven bass drums echoing and the random beat repeater on the snare here though. Thoughts?
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This is really cool.. I would say leave the bass drum but swap out the cymbol with a real one ( which I would be happy to record for you) ..
I think this also needs some heroic smith style singing.. which I would also be willing to help out with.
I agree about the cymbal…feel free to record ride cymbal for me. Also feel free to record a real bass drum as well. I told Greg it’d be cool to try tracking each part of the drum set separately and close mic everything. I might mix the real bass drum with the midi one to sorta cross things together. Give it a shot next time you have some spare time.
This is really great… I love the drum repeater effect- could you do that on a real recording (assuming unique tracks per drum) or is it inside the drum machine you were using?
I think this progression is awesome, but I kept waiting for it to resolve to a verse progression… this would make a great intro and chorus progression, but I think it needs something else for the verse. maybe even if you just sit on the first chord for the entire verse- could work, not sure.
I think I want to use that progression (D, A, C, G) for the A section (stole that idea from an REM song) but I agree it needs to eventually land on something…perhaps for the chorus. If you listen, you’ll hear the place where it subtlety changes progression (when the piano comes in) but perhaps its too subtle. This could take some reworking. Any ideas?
As for the drum repeater, its a beat repeater I set on the midi snare. Since I did each track separately (no programed drums per se) I was able to add it directly to that one instrument…I wish it was a little more frequent but I guess that is better than overdoing it.
It would be cool to try adding something like that to the master track here and there to see what it sounds like. One of my fav. master track effects is in a MMW song from Uninvisible, where the song is grooving along and then there is a turntable scratch, then it sounds like the whole song we’re listening to is then scratched on a turntable itself.
Reminds me of those scenes in Fight Club where the film stock starts warping a bit and you see the side rails of the film itself. A play within a play sortof. Shakespeare would be so proud.