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The drumbeat nails the tempo and basic *feel*. It also frees the guitar/bass/keyboard/horn from having to suggest the underlying tempo.
Short answer - the quantity of words that need singing.
Generally speaking, if you are creating repetitive chord sequences, you will reach a point when the moment feels right for a change of key or to move to a different chord sequence.
Occasionally, a song's lyrics are so compelling that it is possible to get away with one chord sequence for the duration of the entire composition.
For riffs it is always one 57 on my amp and a basic beat after finding the tempo I want, I change that later after recording.
With the songs, the last one I did, I sat with an amp sim and used the part I had worked out on acoustic to get drum patterns with the right feel in BFD3. I worked section by section and once the drums are nailed, I started layering guitars. For this one as I was happy with the takes on guitar, I re-amped them and will use they as the final takes. Prior to that, once I had the song on acoustic and could sing it all, I would record all rhythm guitars through my amp and vocals in one day to a basic beat. Then edit the drums later and add in bass, overlays etc.
It all takes fucking ages though!
Yes thats in the program Im using, EZ drummer 2 demo and Im just figuring stuff like this out. I used to have a midi keyboard, might be time to buy a new one.
This will probably be my approach, Im definitely going to give this a go. Thanks
Melancholy. Im not one of those people bursting at the seams with positivity every single day so I tend to sway towards the dark side.....
At the minute lyrics arent on the radar but its something Id love to add at some point.
Thanks all, theres been the usual mix of confusion and good advice that comes with posting on the internet but I think theres stuff I can definitely try and use to get me going.
Nil Satis Nisi Optimum
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thanks
Why not submit something for the current composition challenge?
You mentioned that you never finish tracks. Perhaps a deadline might help. There's also a theme (albeit it's make your own theme, but still that could help you focus). You've got until the end of May.
But it seems like a weird time signature so Ill struggle with drums as I'll probably have to program them from scratch
It's actually in good old 4/4. It's just you're accenting
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +