The continuing stooooory of a *track* that’s gone to the (over)dubs
KeithHandy posted in Instruments, Playing, Producing on June 12th, 2007
You can tell me to STFU with these “clever” post titles any time now. :)
Here’s your next opportunity to micro-manage my deeply personal creative progress on What Do You Think Of Yourself (from last chorus to end this time):
0:17 - distorted rhythm guitar with wah-wah. This whole section will have more layers of vocal improv going on, and is supposed to have a “gospel-ish” sound. Maybe even some tambourine and hand claps. I’m almost embarrassed that I did too good of a job simulating Jesus Christ Superstar with the piano riffing. I’ll try less hard next time. :)
1:04 - sampled Chamberlain (same thing as a Mellotron, different make) strings enter here; it might be a few seconds later before you can pick it out over the other stuff. The whole point of these eight bars is to extend the previously repeating B/C#/D/E “rising” chord progression to B/C#/D/E/F/G/Ab/Bb so that it “keeps going all the way up” until it hits THE BIG C that kicks the next section off. And to help over-dramatify the second half of that…
1:14 - sampled trumpet. Love it or hate it, it does sound damn real, and reminds me a bit of some of the stuff Christy listens to, like Polyphonic Spree and Robyn Hitchcock. If you do hate it, it’s only there for ten seconds.
2:19 - doubled lead guitar, in left and right. I will probably have it a little quieter when it first comes in so we’re not quite so “power ballad”.
2:26 - Chamberlain strings re-enter.
2:54 - I just want to mention that hearing the Chamberlain really quiet behind those piano chords makes me feel like I’m in a movie theater, watching something with a lot of sparkly stars (the in-the-sky kind, not the tabloid kind) and magical glowing things in it… possibly an alien type flick, where a little boy is peering into some cosmic portal, and you can see that it’s shining bluish or greenish light on his wide-eyed open-mouthed face. But I’m visual that way. :)
