The Forest

By Paisleyfrog on March 15, 2024 1:31 am

I had a cold this week, and started grabbing acoustic instruments....

The main theme of this song is based off a strummed balalaika. The drums are about three layers thick - it's a main riff off my drum kit (I'm awful at drums), which I then doubled on an RD-6 and a software 808. I like how it cracks.

I added more instruments with a penny whistle, and my wife singing a few themes (she provided the main melodic theme for the song).

I'd like to have added a musical lift to this - as it is, it runs the same chord structure the entire song. But that's something to experiment with for another week.

Logic Pro
TD3
RD6
Software instruments
Pennywhistle
Balalaika
Vocal
Guitar

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Tags: ambient, mood, orchestral, week 11 2024, View by:Paisleyfrog

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March 21, 2024 4:02 pm

MRDRCAT

This is a solid diversion from the dark industrial I've been enjoying from you! The vocals are perfect (and I love the pennywhistle accents), and the whole thing is delicate and ethereal, even after the beat kicks in nice & hard at 3:14. Super cool!

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March 21, 2024 5:55 pm

Paisleyfrog

MRDRCAT wrote:

This is a solid diversion from the dark industrial I've been enjoying from you! The vocals are perfect (and I love the pennywhistle accents), and the whole thing is delicate and ethereal, even after the beat kicks in nice & hard at 3:14. Super cool!

Thanks! I think I had a sound/feel in my head for this one that I didn't quite achieve, which is why I'm a little down on it. I'm glad it was still a good listen

I also love how the vocals turned out in this (and I have joked about how, as usual, her vocals are the best part of anything we do together. She usually just give me a Look at that point)....we have plans for more projects to work on, both WB and otherwise.

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