Stop Saying You're Sorry
By Paisleyfrog on September 1, 2024 3:52 pm
Gothic metal ballad finally happened! Enough time, enough energy, wife is healthy. And there was much rejoicing. 
This is another one that has been in the archive for a while. My wife wrote this for a dear friend anbout eight years ago and got the idea to do it as a gothic metal ballad when I was working on Vicious Circle. (These were actually the first words we tried putting to that one, but it just didn't fit.)
This has had a melody for a while as well, but not necessarily for gothic metal. It was also in a major key. We largely used what we had before for the verse, but the chorus is new. Guitars are tuned in open D5 because why not.
Strings are a mix of EWQLSO and Hollywood Strings Opus (still getting used to that orchestral suite). Made heavy use of the broken chord session player for the piano, and filled it out with a session pad. Having the chords baked into the project made it handy when I wanted to redo the bass with the jazz bass, as all the chords were listed for me right there. Needed the road map, I don't use C minor very often.
I've had the framework in place for a couple of weeks now. I wanted to finish orchestrating this one after vocals were in place, and I'm glad I did - the mix fought me like hell. I’m really happy with how this turned out, but getting it to translate between speakers was NOT working, and making everything work with the dynamic range in this song was…a struggle All worth it. We’re both pretty happy that this song finally became reality.
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Thank you so much!!