Fool
I mentioned a music project earlier.
I was listening to Genesis - One Man's Fool, a song which I love (mostly for the drumming) and I noticed that there was a bridge in the middle with just bass and a basic drum beat. It sounded ripe for sampling. I've never really sampled anything before, but it didn't take long to output the MP3 to WAV, load it into my sample editor, and isolate just the loop I wanted. Popped it into Reason, used TapTempo to get a rough BPM, then my own ears to fine-tune it. Then it was time to get to work. I'd been listening to She recently, so I started loading up loads of Subtractors with nice primitive square/saw waves...
I work mainly by inspiration - I hear something, and something else pops into my head to go with it. Add a keyboard and a large library of synths and samples, and this is a recipe for fun. I reckon I only spent a few hours on this song - which is a refreshing change, given that most of my music work recently has consisted of agonising over something for a period of months, then never releasing it. Reminds me of when I started with just a tracker and some terrible samples, but I could crank out a song in an afternoon.
Anyway, here's the final result - it's not particularly inspired, but it was damn fun to work with, taking a piece of one song and twisting it into something totally different: Fool.
The one thing that bugs me - one of the melodic bits used in the choruses and the outro sounds incredibly familiar, but I can't think what song it's from.
I was listening to Genesis - One Man's Fool, a song which I love (mostly for the drumming) and I noticed that there was a bridge in the middle with just bass and a basic drum beat. It sounded ripe for sampling. I've never really sampled anything before, but it didn't take long to output the MP3 to WAV, load it into my sample editor, and isolate just the loop I wanted. Popped it into Reason, used TapTempo to get a rough BPM, then my own ears to fine-tune it. Then it was time to get to work. I'd been listening to She recently, so I started loading up loads of Subtractors with nice primitive square/saw waves...
I work mainly by inspiration - I hear something, and something else pops into my head to go with it. Add a keyboard and a large library of synths and samples, and this is a recipe for fun. I reckon I only spent a few hours on this song - which is a refreshing change, given that most of my music work recently has consisted of agonising over something for a period of months, then never releasing it. Reminds me of when I started with just a tracker and some terrible samples, but I could crank out a song in an afternoon.
Anyway, here's the final result - it's not particularly inspired, but it was damn fun to work with, taking a piece of one song and twisting it into something totally different: Fool.
The one thing that bugs me - one of the melodic bits used in the choruses and the outro sounds incredibly familiar, but I can't think what song it's from.