'Infraparabola' - New Original Music/Completely Rewriting Yesterday's Song! Electronic/Synthpop/Instrumental + Walkthrough!
As I listened to
the song I shared yesterday, I realized that I didn't love the outcome. The drums were definitely my favorite part, and I liked the two main synths that do the call and response thing, but I felt like it could be a lot cooler generally, so I essentially scrapped everything except those 4 tracks (2 drums, 2 synths) and started over. This wound up being A LOT more interesting I think, particularly when the bass comes in, things get pretty groovy.
Listen to Infraparabola here.
Tracks 1 and 2
are the synths, though they now just play together providing the root notes and thirds of our chords. The new progression is in Bmin, moving from our i (for 2 bars) down to the Vi (G) for 1 bar, then the iv (Emin) for 1 bar, and up to our Vii (A), also for 1 bar. Then we've got a super dark change, moving to G#major for 2 bars (a minor third below our tonic), then down to Gmin for 1 bar, before we repeat. All in all, I think this is cooler and much more fun than yesterday's version.
Track 1, root notes.
Listen to Infraparabola here.
Track 2, 3rds to define the chords.
Tracks 3 and 4 are
the drums from yesterday's song, with very few changes aside from the Blue section continuing till the end. Track 5 provides another, more ambient synth that accents some chord tones, while Track 6 adds a rhythmic, percussive synth which is not super audible; I dropped the volume until it sorta just accented some 1/16th notes in the drums, so it doesn't overpower anything else.
Listen to Infraparabola here.
Tracks 7 and 8 are the
bass synths, which both play the same progression, pictured below. I wasn't sure how these would sound, as I mixed this on a laptop, but when I listened to it with a subwoofer in a car, I was pleasantly surprised at how intense and groovy it made things, mixed the kick drums. The next 3 tracks are grouped together and provide some swells/crescendos into certain parts, and finally, we have Track 13, which turned out to be my favorite. It uses another rhythmic synth, accenting 1/16th notes, but has such an awesome portamento effect which really made the song in my opinion.
Track 13, bass synth.
I hope you dig this new version of the song, I think it's much cooler. I'll definitely be expanded this, probably adding a B section of some sort so as to break things up harmonically, maybe alter the drums there a bit too so it really stands out. We'll see where inspiration takes it!
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