A slow attack special! Long, soaring guitar and bass guitar notes of great beauty throughout propelled by deep jazz and funk acoustic drumkit grooves. Lead...
A slow attack special! Long, soaring guitar and bass guitar notes of great beauty throughout propelled by deep jazz and funk acoustic drumkit grooves. Lead slide guitar and banjo plus slow attack lead guitar. Other synths, Fender Rhodes, cello, reverse reverb drums, Eastern melodies, dance grooves and more. Real chillout track but also deep groover. Loved making this though I'm not sure I know of anything else quite like it. Do you?
09/03/13 12:51:03AM @endless-rotary:
Thanks - I really enjoyed making this one. The foundation of it all is those slow attack guitar and bass notes and chords, which just have a magical sound that I could listen to over and over again. Obviously I already have thousands of times as it takes a long time to put together something as detailed and complex as this, with all its micro-editing and spot effects and fills and so on.
Those slow attack notes continue throughout the track, with the guitar ones often being there at the start of the bar though it's often quite subtle. I didn't bother with any pads on this as the slow attack notes cover that. The slow attack is just from an Electro Harmonix foot pedal I have with which you can blend the signals across different octaves and control the attack and filter - simple controls but quite effective and great for making an alternative bass out of guitar playing, which I do quite often (and also in this track).
"yet there is always something new to pick out every time you listen to it."
Yes, this is exactly what I try to do with all my music, though I have to be careful not to cram it with too much activity. Also, adding more and more elements makes the mix so much harder (but also a fun challenge).
I genuinely try to make pretty much every bar in ever piece I do more interesting than the last. I suppose I worked out years ago that if you're doing instrumental music you really want people to listen to, rather than just play in the background or dance to in a club, you've got to keep it interesting. Which does not mean just doing loads of soloing. Instead I spend ages jamming over loops and editing the best bits, with quite often a focus on the little odd, incidental bits I never consciously intended to play. I take those little parts and loop them as lead sections or use them as fills and fit others in around the lead lines.
Same with drum parts - I audition loads of quality MIDI grooves recorded by professional drummers and stick them onto the many MIDI tracks I have set up in Cubase and then chop and edit them to make the eventual, heavily layered drum track, which normally consists of at least 3 acoustic drumkits, though usually more like 5, plus a few drum loops here and there (no drum loops in An Early Morning Appointment).
"I love the "slider" effects in the background"
I'm not quite sure what you mean by this. I guess it's a reference to those slow attack notes but I could be wrong - it might refer to the reverse reverb drum section in the track's second half.
There is also slide guitar in this (but that's probably not what you mean), something I do a lot of and am very into. I play a resonator guitar with a bottleneck but don't really do much obvious blues as I like to combine it with all the electronic stuff. I play a bit of slide on the banjo too, as you can hear in this track if you listen carefully.
I'd really like to also play slide bass but would need to raise the action and also probably just go with 2 bass strings (a la the excellent Mark Sandman of Morphine, one of my favourite ever bands) so would need a dedicated bass for that as you can't just keep on taking off strings and raising/lowering the action (very boring and time-consuming).
I've written quite a lot here but there's so much to say about a track like this and I've only touched on a few things. In any case, it's music so should be good enough to speak for itself. I'm just writing a few things in case you wonder how it was made.
I also have two other Mixposure profiles and different tracks on all three. My two other user names are Static Nomad and Sounds of An Unsound Mind so please check them out. Four of the five tracks on the latter I am planning to release sometime as a proper album (about 50 mins running time) when I can get the final mixes and mastering right.
Good to make your acquaintance and I shall check out more of your stuff (though the limited audio player here is annoying me. I can't seem to fast forward or rewind).
09/02/13 08:47:44AM @dj-jezza:
I love this, a very well done atmospheric piece, the drums take precedent in such a vibrant, yet non over powering style. The flow is amazing, each element gets louder and louder, yet there is always something new to pick out every time you listen to it. I love the "slider" effects in the background when they twirl around the subtle bass. Excellent
Thanks - I really enjoyed making this one. The foundation of it all is those slow attack guitar and bass notes and chords, which just have a magical sound that I could listen to over and over again. Obviously I already have thousands of times as it takes a long time to put together something as detailed and complex as this, with all its micro-editing and spot effects and fills and so on.
Those slow attack notes continue throughout the track, with the guitar ones often being there at the start of the bar though it's often quite subtle. I didn't bother with any pads on this as the slow attack notes cover that. The slow attack is just from an Electro Harmonix foot pedal I have with which you can blend the signals across different octaves and control the attack and filter - simple controls but quite effective and great for making an alternative bass out of guitar playing, which I do quite often (and also in this track).
"yet there is always something new to pick out every time you listen to it."
Yes, this is exactly what I try to do with all my music, though I have to be careful not to cram it with too much activity. Also, adding more and more elements makes the mix so much harder (but also a fun challenge).
I genuinely try to make pretty much every bar in ever piece I do more interesting than the last. I suppose I worked out years ago that if you're doing instrumental music you really want people to listen to, rather than just play in the background or dance to in a club, you've got to keep it interesting. Which does not mean just doing loads of soloing. Instead I spend ages jamming over loops and editing the best bits, with quite often a focus on the little odd, incidental bits I never consciously intended to play. I take those little parts and loop them as lead sections or use them as fills and fit others in around the lead lines.
Same with drum parts - I audition loads of quality MIDI grooves recorded by professional drummers and stick them onto the many MIDI tracks I have set up in Cubase and then chop and edit them to make the eventual, heavily layered drum track, which normally consists of at least 3 acoustic drumkits, though usually more like 5, plus a few drum loops here and there (no drum loops in An Early Morning Appointment).
"I love the "slider" effects in the background"
I'm not quite sure what you mean by this. I guess it's a reference to those slow attack notes but I could be wrong - it might refer to the reverse reverb drum section in the track's second half.
There is also slide guitar in this (but that's probably not what you mean), something I do a lot of and am very into. I play a resonator guitar with a bottleneck but don't really do much obvious blues as I like to combine it with all the electronic stuff. I play a bit of slide on the banjo too, as you can hear in this track if you listen carefully.
I'd really like to also play slide bass but would need to raise the action and also probably just go with 2 bass strings (a la the excellent Mark Sandman of Morphine, one of my favourite ever bands) so would need a dedicated bass for that as you can't just keep on taking off strings and raising/lowering the action (very boring and time-consuming).
I've written quite a lot here but there's so much to say about a track like this and I've only touched on a few things. In any case, it's music so should be good enough to speak for itself. I'm just writing a few things in case you wonder how it was made.
I also have two other Mixposure profiles and different tracks on all three. My two other user names are Static Nomad and Sounds of An Unsound Mind so please check them out. Four of the five tracks on the latter I am planning to release sometime as a proper album (about 50 mins running time) when I can get the final mixes and mastering right.
Good to make your acquaintance and I shall check out more of your stuff (though the limited audio player here is annoying me. I can't seem to fast forward or rewind).
I love this, a very well done atmospheric piece, the drums take precedent in such a vibrant, yet non over powering style. The flow is amazing, each element gets louder and louder, yet there is always something new to pick out every time you listen to it. I love the "slider" effects in the background when they twirl around the subtle bass. Excellent