I Only Care About You
By horatiuromantic on July 23, 2022 4:40 pm
I came up with this song while on the back of an elephant in a colorful room inside a big tent in a dream within a dream last week. The person I was singing to had already sang me something and it felt a bit like a friendly competition - there were multiple people (or dream creatures) apart from the person I was singing to, waiting to hear what I was going to respond in song. I improvised the first two verses and part of the chorus a capella pretty much as you hear them here! I am not sure who the person was, but I think she was a girl and I definitely cared about her!
I liked how it turned out and I woke up in the first dream to try and write it down, but I couldn't find a pen, but luckily I woke up again in REAL LIFE and I wrote it down on my phone! Then I spent a week trying to record a decent version, but I didn't finish it last Sunday so I gave it an extra week cause I thought it deserves it. I hope you like it!
Oh yea, about the process: I tried a few things including SessionBand and other backing tracks, but in the end I recorded a first draft piano+voice to get a tempo track, then I used Staffpad to write drums and tempo-map them since there's a few places where it needs to slow down and speed up. Then I did a million takes of piano, voice, and bass in Logic, and used the fanciest of UA Spark effects to master it. Hopefully it's not too compressed, I'd like to hear your thoughts if you have any constructive criticism on the mastering.
Enjoy!
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