Heeling Achilles
By kevanatkins on March 31, 2024 2:25 pm
Missed last week and I almost missed this week. This one is structurally and harmonically very simple for that reason. No mode mixture, secondary dominants, chromatic mediants or any of that fun stuff I like to play with so much. I tried to simplify my instrumental ideas in the hope it might make space for a top line, which for me is my biggest difficulty. I hope one day I can get past that and my discomfort with my own voice. So the arrangement is kind of built to hold a top line that doesn't exist yet. It's all in my head, I know, but so am I.
On the plus side, I'm quite happy with the main synth sound. Nothing special under the hood, just the ES P synth treated with a bit of saturation of spring reverb and Bricasti reverb. Spring reverb makes everything great. I quite enjoyed getting the drums together, especially turning off grid snapping so I can find where things actually sound good to me. I will definitely continue that practice.
I'm also really enjoying more intimate chamber strings lately. They're harder to get sounding right with samples because the parts are more exposed than a full 16.14.12.10.8 section, opted for a very small 3.3.2.2.0 section, which is closer to the kinds of live sections I've written for. Also, who has enough beta blockers kicking around for 60 string players these days. Again, the parts are very simple, but hopefully effective.
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