'BEES!!!!' - ORIGINAL MUSIC - MY OLD PUNK SONGS ( + ORCHESTRAL INTRO)! - INSTRUMENTAL + WALKTHROUGH

This is a song from 6 or 7

years ago that originally was for a band I was in at the time, Fist Pump Tony, however this recording is just myself on guitar and bass, and a programmed drum track. We broke up before ever playing any shows though, so it was relegated to a solo song. At the time, I didn't have access to Ableton or Logic or anything like that, so I used a free program called "Doggiebox" for the drums. The samples actually weren't that bad, and the way you could program it was nice, it was done using actual musical notation, but it was hard to get fills like snare rolls, or smooth transitions between toms.

Listen to Bees here.

I have shared a few of the

songs from this era before, it was just before I joined the band The Steaks that I shared yesterday. I had written 15/20 songs that I liked a lot, but didn't have a band to perform them with, and wound up not using any of them for The Steaks so they got put on the backburner. I would like to go back one day and re-record some of them, would be a lot of fun to get an actual band to perform them.

This song has an orchestral intro

that I did which actually sounds really good still... I used a plug-in called Miroslav Philharmonik, which has great samples. Basically, I took the Chorus and Verse progressions that I had recorded on guitar, and broke the chords down into individual instruments. While it doesn't exactly fit with the fast punk song that comes in later, I still like it a lot and was pretty proud of how I arranged it at the time.

Listen to Bees here.

The main progression begins

in A major, starting on Emajor, to F#major, Dminor, and Amajor. The second time around, we move from F# to Gmajor, then repeat. After that, we modulate to Dmajor, but I use a flat 6 and 7 before resolving to the D, which give us an interesting feeling; using parts of the parallel minor chords can do a lot to make a typical Major progression more interesting. The break of the song has a cool guitar riff too, I used an octave up pedal (2x) and did a little tappy riff which sort of swirls around the mix (like a swarm of bees, hence the idea for the title). We also have a measure in the break that is cut short by 2 beats, so it feels like 8/4 and 6/4 together.

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That's it for this little throwback! Lots of new music coming, including some live videos of my friend Adam and me doing Beatles covers and some originals! Stay tuned and Steem On!

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