Week #42 - Awkwardness

Finally caught up! This piece was supposed to be posted back in October. I'd wanted to work on it some more, but then never got around to finishing it and kind of forgot about it until yesterday. Since I'm almost finished with this project I figured I'd go ahead an post what I have just to fill in the gap. Not a great song, but here it is:



Description:

Not even sure how I can describe this. I guess the idea was of a broken machine not functioning properly so an off-kilter feel was in order. I made the initial riff in 5/4 with a crazy organ sound (which actually ended up being sampled accordion) that seemed appropriate and ran with it and started adding parts.

Tools:

Propellerhead Record 1/Reason 4

Read more...

Notes:

- The accordion riff in the first section goes Em-F#7-Bm in each measure with a G as the low note.

- The second section is comprised of 4 bars of G and 4 bars of Am with an Em thrown in at the end of each to transition.

- The final part where the horns come in is G | Fm | D5 | D5 | G | Fm | E5 | E5 | x2

- I chose 5/4 because I thought an odd time signature would help me create a stilted, awkward feel. I was sort of imagining the Monty Python Minstry of Funny Walks sketch as I wrote the initial riff.

- I used randomness to generate the lead part in the first section, but things were more intentional in the second and third sections.

- There's not much to the arrangement as I didn't get that far, and there's not really a mix either.


Share on Facebook