I'm working on a new weird piece of music I'm cobbling together with loop tracks in Audacity. I think it's going to end up a dance track... so anyway, I need a little input. Where should it go from here? I'm also having a problem with the low track seeming to be dragging, even although it's just a pitch shifted version of the original. Any of you know why that would happen and/or how to fix it?
edit: Here it is with a low pass filter and normalized. I think I'm going to need to rerecord it. There is a spot where I squeaked a note. I might let it slide if it was just one take through, but since I'm probably going to loop it I want to get it right.
(I know I'm peaking some levels. I'll fix that before the final mix down. This is really just an audio sketch of what I'm trying to do.) I played the original track on an A harp. Everything else is just octaves so far.
I don't really know where it should go, but I like it. What I'd like it to do is explode into a Philip Glass-type thing - equally brilliant and maddening:
That's pretty cool! He looks like Sideshow Bob. The only other instrument I've thought of adding so far is bass. I'm waiting for my bass-playing friend to comment back on Facebook.
Maybe it's the arpeggios that are making me think of Philip Glass. Anyway, I like the way he layers different rhythms. There could be something in that, I guess.
I Like It! It needs a beat though. I think if you can get a heavy bass/kick that plays against the beats that the bassline is on, you could really reinforce the tone of the song. So like your bassline is going something like "boomp ba beata baa etc...", you might try a kick drum going "bomp bomp bomp ba bomp" across that whole bass line... Or something like that... Anyway, I think a drum line will clarify what direction the song is going in... ---------- ------------------ View my videos on YouTube!"
I had a version where I pulled up the breath sounds into a beat, but I couldn't get them up high enough to really work. I was actually thinking of having it play through once without and percussion and then adding it on the first full loop on. I don't have a kick drum handy, but hopefully this weekend I can recruit a drummer and/or a bass player.
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Thanks Tolga. No, that's all done in afterwards. I don't have the pedals to do it live. If I was going to do it live I'd need either a couple octave-tuned harps or a couple pitch shifters. I was actually thinking about how to do it live. I vaguely recalled something from theory about parallel octaves from theory so I separated the tracks into left and right to make sure the parts didn't sound jumbled.
It's a regular diatonic with no overblows, in fact, I don't think I've even thrown a bend in so far. I'm just using the 2 blow as the root note. I'm not sure what mode that makes it.
Nasty, I'll probably do a couple versions, including a more traditional version, but I'm trying to branch out a little. It definitely needs some rhythm underneath but I don't have anything handy except a shaker egg. Y
I can't figure out why the low pitched stuff sounds late compared to the higher part. I just doubled the track and shifted it down, so it should be exactly the same. I was actually thinking da da da Da DA DA Da da da, da da da Da da da da, but I was having a hard time getting the first 3 notes cleanly so I was playing too hard and I didn't get the dynamics I was hoping for yet. I guess that's what I get for playing it on a Piedmont! I tried it on a Blues Harp too, but I didn't like the tone and my SP20 in A has rattling that I haven't fixed yet. I was originally going to record another harp track over this.
My friend who plays bass says he's figured out something for it but I haven't heard it yet. I'm excited to see what he comes up with.
