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Finally, Cary and I have collaborated on a song together. Cary wrote the initial chord changes with a sparse accompaniment. I then slammed the MIDI files into Logic, spiced them up with some Virtual Instruments, then played around with the arrangement.
I am in love with the bass line. It plods. I want to make that line plod as much as possible. I want to bob my head with slow deliberate motions; the line should sometimes slip just behind the tempo, like the song wants to get even slower (but it doesn’t). I am at a loss as to how to accentuate that thought with the arrangement. Do we even need to accentuate it? Is it present enough?
Due to the nature of one-man recording I am always fighting against the urge to simply throw on another layer. The first 50 seconds feels full enough to me. I tried to record a melody there, but there was no room and it shifted the trajectory of those 50 seconds. Should there be more there?
The rest of the song has a smattering of ideas, all lined up in a row. I need to work on my development of ideas, rather than simply moving through them.
I’ll leave you with that.
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May 3, 2009 at 5:14 pm
Evan
Cary,
if you want a protools file of this, let me know! I can upload it if you want to work on Terrifying Heights (I’ll create stems with the vocal blocks so there’s not a billion audio files to download). WORD.
May 21, 2009 at 9:32 pm
calexander13
I think this arrangement is fine. The doc I sent you had a simple piano, upright bass and organ arrangement, so I was very pleased to hear something quite different emanate from my speakers.
The new, booming bass line is great, and the swirling harmonics, phasing in and out of time are great. Sounds like you took a synth and put it through a wurlitzer speaker. I especially like the vocals.
Of course, will I have time to finish this song until the end of June? Probably not, but I’ll try!