Hope you had a wonderful Christmas! We were planning to go to my sisters’ but my son Cole came down with a sudden fever and she didn’t want him infecting her kids. We ended up seeing “Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs” at the cheap theater and having Christmas dinner at a Chinese restaurant. Cole called it “the best Christmas ever.” He woke up this morning with no fever or cold symptoms at all. It’s a Christmas miracle!
Here’s the latest batch of song snippets. Contrebass starts off with a nice vamp that has plenty of motion, but by the time the bass enters, there’s too much going on for the ear to follow. By the end, it’s a total mess. Simply put, I twisted too many knobs.
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Analogics already sounds like a Color Theory song, for better or for worse. I started it with a piano melody, copied it to a new track and ran it through a reverb at 100% wet, then reversed the result. The snippet starts with the reverse reverb, then the melody mixed back in, then bass and drums, and finally a choir singing “ooh” and “aah” sidechained to the kick to make it pump.
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Mr. Bandpass could be a Cirque du Soleil reject. The chord progression is too weird to make a song out of, but maybe one or two elements are salvageable. The drums sounded too skittish to enter all at once, so I snuck them in with filter automation and softened them with a heavy reverb.
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That’s twelve snippets in one month, which gives me six more months to finish twelve full songs! I’m going to have to step up the production schedule. I’ll aim to post a few more this week, with a focus on melody rather than just texture.
