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WeeklyBeats.com / Music / Alex Fun's music / Shadow in the Light
This is a song I started with my old band mate, Taylor. We were in a psych/prog rock band called chalaxy. Had fun writing in a different style with this one. We got words for the chorus but no verse yet. Also attempted a serious tempo change in the middle there. Critiques are always welcome.
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Nice! Really dig the vocals on this. Psych vibes are excellent, and the tempo change up halfway flows well, probably because the tempo patches a slowed down triplet feel or something. Added this one to my favorites 
Nice! Really dig the vocals on this. Psych vibes are excellent, and the tempo change up halfway flows well, probably because the tempo patches a slowed down triplet feel or something. Added this one to my favorites
Thank you so much! Ya know, I was thinking that making it a triplet would be the proper way to slow it down. Thanks for reminding/reinforcing that idea in my head.
If you want to write this down, the way I calculate a tempo change to match a triplet feel is like this:
(BPM/3)*2 = Slowed down (like 90bpm to 60bpm)
(BPM/2)*3 = Sped up (90bpm to 135bpm)
This is mostly only useful for recording, when you want to slow down or speed up a song and feel the pulse of the metronome increase or decrease. Especially if you're working in odd time signatures as you normally would with prog. I've utilized that logic in a few songs this year when the ending section speeds up suddenly.
If you want to write this down, the way I calculate a tempo change to match a triplet feel is like this:
(BPM/3)*2 = Slowed down (like 90bpm to 60bpm)
(BPM/2)*3 = Sped up (90bpm to 135bpm)This is mostly only useful for recording, when you want to slow down or speed up a song and feel the pulse of the metronome increase or decrease. Especially if you're working in odd time signatures as you normally would with prog. I've utilized that logic in a few songs this year when the ending section speeds up suddenly.
That's very helpful actually. Thank you! So I guess If I went from 135bpm to 90bpm, I guess I would have to change the time signature to 3/4?
I like the guitar work on this track very much. Both the delicate minor riff and the chorus backed with guitars around 2:50. I am less sure about the synth line from 3:06. Maybe the guitar coming back to playing the minor line could be an idea instead of the synth?
