I wrote this song at the weekend. I’d had the guitar pickings in m mind for about 4 weeks, so decided that I would record them and see where it took me. The first thing I did was added a solo ad lib guitar over the top – all on my Crafter acoustic so far, to which I added some reverb and delay as well as a light metalizer effect from Cubase. I added some bass – all along to a click track at this stage. I then, with a crappy dynamic mic, ad libbed some vocals. The chord progression was quite melancholic so I came up with the theme of being a prisoner deprived of his liberty and just took it form there. I was quite comfortable with it without drums but then I decided to add some from an electronic kit set from Proteus the synth. I varied the bass snare and HH sounds to be a bit different form normal for me.
Now where am I with it? Well it’s too long – nearly 9 mins – I think I can cut out 1-2 mins easily, but it will still be a long song. I need to change the bass sound as it is quite ugly and needs to be rounder. I also want to find some interesting synth sounds (from AbSynth?) as background moving pads and perhaps some lead synth bits.
I’d be really interested in your views on the song length and the other things I mention – you can find it as the first song on www.MySpace.com/HuntPhil and leave me feedback as well. Let me know…
Phil
xAnd a BIG sorry to Jen and my other girls – apparently I was a bit grumpy and huffy this weekend – it comes with being in prison and away from them, but I’ll try not to be as bad again xxx.
Now where am I with it? Well it’s too long – nearly 9 mins – I think I can cut out 1-2 mins easily, but it will still be a long song. I need to change the bass sound as it is quite ugly and needs to be rounder. I also want to find some interesting synth sounds (from AbSynth?) as background moving pads and perhaps some lead synth bits.
I’d be really interested in your views on the song length and the other things I mention – you can find it as the first song on www.MySpace.com/HuntPhil and leave me feedback as well. Let me know…
Phil
xAnd a BIG sorry to Jen and my other girls – apparently I was a bit grumpy and huffy this weekend – it comes with being in prison and away from them, but I’ll try not to be as bad again xxx.
