Cardiac Dirge
By blighters_rock on February 13, 2022 5:51 pm
This was pretty fun to write. Sometimes limiting your options is the best way to expand your creativity. I decided to limit myself to this alternating two chord progression. Even though it's really simple, I'm really happy with the overall vibe. It's even heart themed, for valentines day.
Someone please tell me if there's an easier way to do this in Logic Pro X...
I wanted a big saucy reverb on the kick drum and on the "important" snare hits. Kick drum was easy enough to gate and send into reverb. However, there's a lot of snare action going on, so from my perspective my choices were to
1. make a copy of the snare track and edit out the non-reverb hits, then send that to reverb
2. automate the reverb send directly
3. use a gate side-chained on a utility track (played via MIDI to open the gate)
I went with 1 because it was the easiest to be accurate with, but I'm interested if anyone has any other ideas I didn't think of.
Lyrics:
Ripping out a part of me
a piece of mine for peace of mind
They're stitching up the cavity
where once there was a heart of mine
Now that this is out of me
a part of you is going free
I'm living with the vestiges
of vascular anatomy
The doctor said the surgery
Might be the end--the last of me
But missing this is feeling fine
When missing you was misery
And when you cut the artery
a final pulse, in memory
A heart you left upon a shelf
There's nothing else to make me bleed
Audio works licensed by author under:
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