I always follow the George Martin principle and never have more than 4 parts if I ever do any orchestration (which is rare for me). Of course each part can be doubled on several instruments, but don't have too many different musical parts happening at once.Quote:
Originally Posted by dave.king1
I've only done 2 parts using the ensemble preset with drawn bow, all lower register to emphasise the dark nature of the song.
Anything along the line of Nick Cave's Murder Ballads? I can only listen to that a few songs at a time. Never managed to listen to it the whole way through yet.
Basically it's about a bloke sitting alone in his room thinking about the woman he has lost.
When Bob first played it for us is was a straight 4/4 almost a marching tune because that's natural rhythm, then with Max playing rhythm and me playing bass we gave it a rolling sea shanty sort of a feel which from a drum perspective is a basic rock pattern with a disco type backbeat, sound odd but it works.
It's in Am and the rolling bass and the drumbeat are still there with an alternating AM A+ arpeggio over an Am chord played on the double bass, the verse is a I VII IV V progression with three note guitar arpeggios and block chords on the double bass, the chorus is I VII V# V with block chords on the double bass and slightly over driven guitar and a rising line in the viola and violin.
All this with three part harmonies.
Still have to do and outro but will reprise the intro and extend it from 4 bars to 12 and then a single chorus progression with the slightly overdriven guitar sitting on top ( knowing what I want and playing it are two totally different things )
I've got have a dozen of our originals well on the way but can only share one because the rest are still pending copyright
No One Knows Midnight Like Melinda ( still quite rough in the mix and there are more harmonies to be added )
This was released by Max's band Men Of Country back in about 1976, he wrote it about a hooker that he met when the band had a residency in Kings Cross here in Sydney and we have done a major rework of it
Max is singing it here and playing acoustic rhythm, Wes Grady is on pedal steel, I am playing the bass and guitar parts ( no pitbull in this case )
The pedal steel & acoustic were miced, the guitar and bass parts were DI. Drums were written as a MIDI
https://soundcloud.com/suthol/no-one...t-like-melinda
The track that follows, Sons Of Poppa Browne written and sung by my other band mate Bob Browne I play bass on, didn't record it but did mix it
I was about to buy another copy of this as the price is still the same and after a bit of a google I found you get two seats ( PCs ) per licence.
Here's the intro of one of our originals that I used this plugin in.
Instruments
Drums - MIDI
Guitar - Strat
Rhythm - Tele
Bass - Yamaha
Strings - MIDI
https://soundcloud.com/suthol/gather...memories-intro
Dave looks like your getting the hang of the string plugin. Well worth having for $1.00 . Good stuff enjoy all the best .I hope your finding many uses for it.
Kimball
Absolutely KB, I am looking forward to being able to share the whole song because it is quite dark and dramatic.Quote:
Originally Posted by kimball492
Sure ain't country as we know it Jim :D