Veggie Dave
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This song was originally intended for @rhysonsax's F# Blues Of The Month challenge but as you can hear, it rather migrated somewhat away from a blues song into something else.
I have to be honest and say that I found playing in F#m (G#m on tenor) to be incredibly difficult. Playing the individual notes wasn't a problem but getting them to flow together was. I found my fingers just didn't want to jump from one note to the next with any sort of smoothness. At times I felt like my fingers were a tangle of old typewriter bars.
The other lesson I learned from this was that the more complex the musical arrangement of the song is, the more time you must spend on the mix because if it's not mixed as well as you can make it then the song will song awful. You can get away with murder if you only have sax, drums, bass and possibly piano, but once you start introducing more layers then you open yourself up to a whole new world of problems.
This song has taken me hours to mix, especially because I really wanted it to sound like there was a brass section, which proved to be nigh-on impossible (without buying an expensive VST), but it had to have one as the melody played soley on the tenor sounded dreadful as it was never intended to be heard that way.
Hopefully this song will go down a little better than the others I've done recently.
View: https://soundcloud.com/veggie-dave/the-violence-of-silence
I have to be honest and say that I found playing in F#m (G#m on tenor) to be incredibly difficult. Playing the individual notes wasn't a problem but getting them to flow together was. I found my fingers just didn't want to jump from one note to the next with any sort of smoothness. At times I felt like my fingers were a tangle of old typewriter bars.
The other lesson I learned from this was that the more complex the musical arrangement of the song is, the more time you must spend on the mix because if it's not mixed as well as you can make it then the song will song awful. You can get away with murder if you only have sax, drums, bass and possibly piano, but once you start introducing more layers then you open yourself up to a whole new world of problems.
This song has taken me hours to mix, especially because I really wanted it to sound like there was a brass section, which proved to be nigh-on impossible (without buying an expensive VST), but it had to have one as the melody played soley on the tenor sounded dreadful as it was never intended to be heard that way.
Hopefully this song will go down a little better than the others I've done recently.
View: https://soundcloud.com/veggie-dave/the-violence-of-silence