This is one of those songs that allowed me to stretch out of my comfort zone, but also left me wanting to put more time into it than I had available. I technically started in Ableton Note where I built a drum kit using samples from a Loopcloud trial. I also chose a vocal sample to use and set my project in the same key. But I wasn't inspired to work in the app and decided to move over to the main DAW and use my Push 2 to build out the beat. From there, I used more Ableton presets to compose other parts than I have in recent weeks. There are two parts to the song: one in 9/8 and one in 6/8. At first, I had them alternating A-B-A-B, but I didn't like it, so I made it A-B-B-A with the two B parts serving as a breakdown and build in 6/8 sandwiched between the main 9/8 part with the three-note arpeggiated synth part connecting them. That turned out to be cool, but I wish I had more time to develop that overall idea. As I was wrapping it up, I realized I hadn't even EQ'ed a handful of tracks, so I threw some EQ presets on those tracks quickly.

Tags: electronic, week 43 2024, View by:thgirwnhoj