Skippa
By miraclemiles on April 12, 2020 8:37 pm
I feel like I channeled an old high school band I was in on this one ... with maybe a few new sounds and a better recording quality than we ever had. This is my gift to my past self, when I would jam with friends and be stuck on a hand drum because there was already a drummer, and no one could hear the hand drum over all the amps and drum kit. Revenge in mine! Not only can you hear the hand drum, a djembe here, the drum kit patterns are converted midi from the djembe parts I recorded. Time for the drummer to follow my awesome djembe riff!! The lowly hand drum player finally leads the way! I love that computers do what we tell them to.
I started this with a Tuesday afternoon beat in the head, grabbed the Djembe, recoded, converted to midi to get drum parts. Some bass - the Dirty Sub preset on Ableton Operator, and then Wavetable preset with some fuzz pedal. Figured, hey about some guitar. Found a Jazz guitar preset for Live's Tension synth, then a Jimi rack with amp, cabinet and resonators chain. Sounded guitarish enough to me, and the best part is it did what I tell it to (unlike that ego maniac in high school).
Actually wrote a couple lyrics along the way. Something about heart skipping a beat, then after watching Devs this week (loving that show), jotted down some notes about dimensions and ripples in the water. Of course when I did vox this morning I kinda just riffed and made stuff up, which I like doing more anyway. Finally letting the drummer sing too ... wow progress!
Cheers everyone, hope you all are holding up well!
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