From Mathias Verraes Sent Wed, May 20th 1998, 17:23
From Mathias Verraes Sent Wed, May 20th 1998, 17:23
>What about other musicians on the list, how do you make music? I play keyboards in a triphop/drum'n'bass band. There's also a guitar player, two violins, a cello, a double bass, a sax, two singers and a rapper. And we use a computer for the drums. I write the music, mostly with the guitar player. We usually start with a chord-sequence on keyboards or guitar. Once we have a general idea of what we want to do with it, I write some basic elements for the drums. Then we write the cello and the bass on top of the chords and then we add the violins (we record them using midi, and we print the sheet music for them) Sometimes we also record a sax, but mostly we let her improvise. Then I write the final drum tracks. I am a drummer myself, so I record some stuff by "drumming" on the keyboard. Then I quantize, edit and step record, as needed. Then we invite the singers and we let them try stuff on top of it until we have the right melodies. If the rythm's suitable, we let the rapper write some stuff too, and finally we rehearse the song with the complete band. We also try other methods, for example jamming with the band until there's something usefull, but we haven't got much result with that yet. --==v^v^v==-- Mathias Verraes xx.xxxxx.xxxx@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx Demi-Sick (live triphop & drum'n'bass) http://www.biosys.net/demisick xxxxxxxx@xxxxxx.xxx --==v^v^v==--