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Submission for LIOLI Round 2
http://www.macjams.com/forum/viewtopic.php?forum=6;showtopic=65856
I didn't go too far afield with this song. I primarily used it as an excuse to explore some of the instruments in the World Music Jam Pack from Apple. I've had that pack for a while and needed an excuse to dig into it a bit. All the instruments except the the bass are from the Jam pack.
I split the loop into 4 sections and transposed those sections to achieve the following chord progression:
E - E7 - C6 - Caug - E - C6 - E7 - E
This is a diatonic progression in A harmonic minor, which gave me a nice scale to flirt with some Middle Eastern sounds.
I assigned the "celtic hammered dulcimer" instrument to the loop track and added a comb filter with an LFO sweep as well as some stereo imaging, EQ, and compression.
I also tried some of the techniques I had suggested in a recent forum thread for creating the illusion of a chorus. Near the middle of the song are some hand claps. There is only a single drum tap used to create these - processed through a stereo detuner and an LFO controlled delay filter.
The title, Inshalla, is an Arabic word meaning "hopefully." It seemed appropriate as I think this is probably my cheeriest sounding song to date.
http://www.macjams.com/forum/viewtopic.php?forum=6;showtopic=65856
I didn't go too far afield with this song. I primarily used it as an excuse to explore some of the instruments in the World Music Jam Pack from Apple. I've had that pack for a while and needed an excuse to dig into it a bit. All the instruments except the the bass are from the Jam pack.
I split the loop into 4 sections and transposed those sections to achieve the following chord progression:
E - E7 - C6 - Caug - E - C6 - E7 - E
This is a diatonic progression in A harmonic minor, which gave me a nice scale to flirt with some Middle Eastern sounds.
I assigned the "celtic hammered dulcimer" instrument to the loop track and added a comb filter with an LFO sweep as well as some stereo imaging, EQ, and compression.
I also tried some of the techniques I had suggested in a recent forum thread for creating the illusion of a chorus. Near the middle of the song are some hand claps. There is only a single drum tap used to create these - processed through a stereo detuner and an LFO controlled delay filter.
The title, Inshalla, is an Arabic word meaning "hopefully." It seemed appropriate as I think this is probably my cheeriest sounding song to date.
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apb
...veiled faced belly-dancers, long eye-lashes ..where was I? oh ..what a soundscape .. fantastic production. Ah yes, the good old diatonic progression in A harmonic minor ..unmistakeable .. lol. Liked everything about this - especially the use of the celtic hammered dulcimer, very nice- and gongs too! I wouldn't have minded if the
vocals at the start re-appeared somwhere after the
halfway mark, as things built up again, perhaps in with the drum bridge and first gong. Kudos.