Good Reflections
By miraclemiles on February 6, 2022 11:59 pm
Created this for week 3 of 3 of the Disquiet Junto Magic Number collaborative project. The bass and percussive synth parts were from last weeks song from Daniel Diaz, where he added a catchy bass line to build upon week one's percussive synth groove creation from Noodle Twister. They had such a good thing going I knew I had to build on that.
For my contribution as the third member of this asynchronous trio, I added live drums, percussion, clavinet and some vocal samples. Live drums are much less edited than my past week's songs. I recorded them by looping 4 or 8 bar sections of the track, then recorded multiple takes using Ableton's comping feature. First time using that and its super useful. On average I felt like doing about 5-8 takes. I then just generally started with the last take and kept it if I liked it. Almost went down rabbit hole on keys sound selection, but just quickly settled on Arturia's virtual clavinet that had some nice Wah Wah, flange and phaser. Thankfully Daniel Diaz said his bass was in D major with D and A chords, so I was able to fumble along through the keys. Today I added some vocal samples I quickly found in my sample folder that I had downloaded last year from Noizz.
I love the experience that I went through this week, when I heard something and instantly knew I liked it and wanted to contribute to it. Wouldn't have made this without the great ideas for collaborative projects and great community that contributes to the Disquiet Junto. I hope to someday collaborate with some of you here in this great Weekly Beats community too!
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