After yesterday's post,
I was jamming the original tune on guitar, and sort of started developing something a bit different, in a different key, but using the same idea of spread voicings of simple intervals, which I then began to map out and expand upon in Ableton. This is not a complete song, just sort of a compilation of a few ideas (in Track 1, GREY, GREEN, TEAL AND LIGHT GREEN, all different progressions) which I will slowly begin to figure out an ordering for, and then add some other changes. Let's go through what I have currently.
Listen to Triangular Modules here.
Track 1 is the main guitar part
which I played here using an electric piano (sort of my go-to, as the guitar samples I have don't sound particularly good). We are in C min here, instead of C maj like yesterday's post. The GREY section begins on C min, then we walk down with the bass to Bb, then to an A natural, and finally Ab min, giving us a really cool, dark dissonance. Then, an Eb to G maj, before repeating. There's a little more to it, but that's the basic idea.
Track 1, GREEN, described below.
Track 1, GREEN, described below.The GREEN section
changes things up, beginning on Ab maj, to Bb, then down to a G before returning to C min. I wanted things to remain similar, but be obviously different enough to not get too repetitive. The TEAL section is a lot like the grey, except we begin on C maj, adding a cool little parallel substitution. The final section is the LIGHT GREEN, in which I basically just changed all C min resolutions to an F min (or F4 at times), and had the C min happen at different points, just to add a little more uniqueness. I'm not sure if I love that section, but for now, it works as a place holder for something cooler.
Listen to Triangular Modules here.
Tracks 2 and 3 are our
bass parts, with 2 using a bass guitar, and 3 a heavy bass synth. Mostly, we just follow root notes, although I did move certain notes around to give us some cooler harmonies, and a bit of voice-leading in chromatic descending parts. Track 4 is our percussion track, which is definitely NOT finalized, also just sort of a place-holder, using congas as a kick drum, and a shaker and cabasa to take the place of hihats/ride.
Tracks 2 and 3, TEAL section, described above.
Tracks 2 and 3, TEAL section, described above.Lastly we have Tracks 5 and 6,
both of which are different synth sounds. They are just copy-pasta'd from Track 1, but an octave lower. Again, I am not sure what these would be in a more finalized version with guitar, maybe still these synth sounds, who knows. For now, they worked well enough to just add a little depth to the whole thing.
I hope you've enjoyed the walkthrough and the tune! Thanks for checking it out!
||| EP 1 - Bandcamp | EP 2 - Bandcamp | EP 3 - Bandcamp |||
||| EP 4 - Bandcamp | EP 5 - Bandcamp | EP 6- Bandcamp |||
I like the walking through with screenshots, it is fun to see things as an artist would be looking at them.
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