Backstory
- Sooooooo umm….it’s Thursday and I can’t seem to get good at the schedule thing. I need to just like get 4 in a row ready or something lol. But anyways, This song was the first one since number 1 to be done on my laptop and the reason was I didn’t know how to use GarageBand without a midi keyboard to make the files! So once JD (piano/keys player in our band 2morrows June [check us out]) told me that Command K was the input for the Pop up keyboard, the SADI’s took a massive leap! I wrote this song at his house on the flat screen in his living room after we were just hanging out. It was hella funny though cause the HDMI cable we were using had this weird delay that made the picture and sound lag from what the actual song was doing, so I had to keep unplugging it and plugging it back in to record and listen back! lol! But Let’s get into the music!
Music
- Wide Suitcase: So the two synth tracks you see at the top are actually different sounds but the midi tracks always open up with the second track. And the piano motif was an idea I had in my head for like a day or two but I didn’t think I had the keyboard to get it into a session.
- Sunrise Chords: I know the 1st track says Wide Suitcase on like every piece but it’s because I recorded everything in the 2nd track to actually know what the notes were before the big effects came online. So if you listen to that little pre-chorus section, before the Fadd9 chord comes in, there’s a walk up in the notes that this one plays, you just can’t hear every note because of the synth’s effects.
- SoCal Drums: Lemme get the easy one out the way first. The second of the two drum tracks was only for claps. They hit on the 1, the and of 2 and the 3. They’re only present for intro, pre-choruses, and ending chorus. The other drum set has everything else in it. It’s a simple drum beat, not meant to be crazy overpowering or the center of attention, just that goldilocks state to be there for the song. The one thing about these drums that I really tried to experiment with was to have it close out the song. I have only heard that happen (like as long as I did it for) in one other song from one of my favorite bands, Maná. In their album “Amar es Compartir,” the third song “Ojala Pudiera Borrarte” has that exact thing and it always stuck with me. Not sure what I loved about it so much but I always had been wanting to do that in a song, and I found a spot in this one!
- Liverpool Bass: Uhhhh Duh! hahhaha! The verse patterns were just me channeling my inner Paul McCartney, just trying to give the song even more movement through the bass. But I do remember the bass was the first thing in the chorus and I built it all around that initial track. The only other thing it does are the intro, which are just long held single notes, and the pre-chorus tonic (and I think, not exactly sure) Fifth note back and forth.
Conclusion
- This one was sooooooo important! I can’t stress that enough. Because this was when I finally was able to use the computer version of GarageBand (which is vastly superior to the phone version) opening up so many more opportunities to expand my knowledge and challenges to myself!
If there’s a takeaway from Command K is, “When you allow yourself to learn one thing, the creative potential and output can and will increase infinitely.” Don’t be afraid to learn something or to be wrong, be afraid of the opportunities that you’ll miss out on because of that lack of knowledge!
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