finally i have recorded something vaguely musical, which is supposed to be what this blog is basically all about. this is the result of about an hour of noodling in ableton live, plus then several more hours refining the basic idea. i'd say this is about 75% of a song, waiting on some sort of melody, more percussion, maybe some lyrics and a bridge or something. i don't think a proper musician would admit to being quite so aimless in their approach, but i could never lie to you, gentle reader.

it's a very simple bit, the drums are a loop sampled from an optigan disc (rock'n rhythm to be exact), and then a resonator is added to pitch the various drum hits. the chord change type thing is the root note of the resonator shifting up an octave. i've got the resonator for C2 on one effect send, and the resonator for C3 on the other, and then the output of each effects send is sent to opposite ends of the crossfader, so i can pan between the two different notes really easily. i've automated all the changes necessary to get the song to play as it is recorded here, so i can sit back and ableton adjusts the knobs automatically while i think about what to add. there's no guitar involved at all, even though it kind of sounds to me like there is. apart from the four bar drum intro, the chord progression is intended to just loop for however long the rest of the song ends up running for, which is how i have it set up in ableton, but this mp3 only repeats the progression once for the sake of size and the boredom factor

my plan for this little fragment is to blog about the changes it goes through on the way to hopefully becoming a finished song, and see what changes and additions find their way into the process, so stay tuned.

Rock Strum by old hollywood

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