From Florian Anwander Sent Wed, Jan 3rd 2018, 12:08
Hi, On 02.01.18 23:17 , skunk3 wrote: > the music to drag on for too long as you're building beats and > patterns and working to mix it all together. Once you're going it's > fine but starting off seems slow to me, That is a correct observation. When I do dance/club orientated music, then my basic rule is: every eight bars something appearently new must happen, or at least something at the already running sound has to change. That is, why I recommend having a lot of effects (Also the change of the light effects can help a lot. I use simply an old apple laptop with the visualization of iTunes.). Creating a new chord sequence might be not that easy, so enable a slow flanger on the runnning beat until your chord progression is done in the sequencer. But I admit, that I do not wangle it every time... ;-) On the other hand: I found that in an live situation, the changes do not have to be that big as when listening at home to the recording. Our live recordings of one "song" are between 8 and 15 minutes long. The tracks, which I publish on soundcloud, have 4 to 10 minutes. As an example http://www.ambiosonics.de/session93/index.html is a session which I did last December solo with our singer Isabelle. http://www.ambiosonics.de/session93/session93_track3.mp3 is about ~4:50 The original recording of this track is in the full recording between 0:47:00 and 1:01:00: http://www.ambiosonics.de/session93/session93.mp3 (106MB) So I did cut it down from 14 minutes to 5 minutes for soundcloud. Florian