8 tracks in 6 hours
Just finished a half-sized session, which has yielded 8 tracks. A fairly high proportion of this session is instrumental - partlybecause I woke up this morning with quite a sore throat so decided to keep singing to a minimum.
Half-way through the session I decided it was time to resurrect the random cards - so there is a suite of 3 tracks for which the chord sequences were determined using the same process I used back in the day of BL session 6 - i.e. starting with 24 cards (for the 12 major and minor chords); randlomly selecting 8 cards for the first RCS (4 for the verse, 4 for the chorus), then another 8 from the remaining 16 for the next RCS, then the final remaining 8 for the 3rd RCS.
In case you’re interested the sequences that arose were:
RCS1: D Am Bm C#m ; Cm C B Em
RCS2: C# E Bflat m G ; Eflat m Fm G# Gm
RCS3: Bflat Eflat F#m G#m ; A F F# Dm
Innovation for this session was that I did some ‘live drumming’ (on the keyboard) for one of the tracks instead of my usual approach of either using loops or clicking the beats onto the midi ‘piano roll’ score. My timing is not that great, so a few notes needed to be quantized, but on the whole I thought it wasn’t bad.
Gear used was minimal - just a midi controller kbd playing the sounds incorporated in Ableton Live and an acoustic guitar with no effects pedals. Simples.
Plus there’s a sample from the first LiveLodge in there somewhere.
Looking forward to hearing everything tonight.
BB