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He Can Jog - Anchor (Remix for TSS)

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Author: hecanjog on April 12 2008

--> This is very much a work in progress, not too much more than a sketch at this point. It's a remix I'm working on for Kansas rockers The Sailor Sequence. You can hear the original here: link

It's all over the place in term of mix and structure, kind of stream of consciousness at the moment. I haven't decided how to work in the vocals really yet - I like the two phrases I'm using, but it gets kinda boring hearing them over and over?

Crit much appreciated! Gonna try to finish this one up this weekend.

Also def check out the sailor sequence - as borat would say: very nice.

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04/12/08 + Roshi

This is gorgeous...

think the ending needs to be a little smoother...but then again, as you mentioned this is a sketch

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04/12/08 + subset

Sounds pretty good to me.
I don't mind the repetitiveness for the most part, but I think the place to add variation would be in the slower piano-like line. With everything else staying the same, it could add and interesting 'bridge' feel. I liked the noisier part at the end quite a bit too. Could use a bit more of that, being careful not to overdo it.
Also, I know you're not done, but the vocals sound like they're floating away fromt the rest of the song, if you know what I mean. I have no clue what to do with vocals, though, so hopefully someone else has some advice in that area.

04/12/08 + astroid

things i'd like to hear:

starting or going to a very distant key area, one that's almost jarring

waves of bit reduction, like reverse stepped filter sweeps.

something like a smashy drum solo, like things getting smashed in a dumpster

contact mic purring from a sundrenched cat

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04/12/08 + hecanjog

Thanks guys!

@Roshi - I totally agree. I'm a bit stuck at the moment with the ending actually...
@Subset - yeah mixing vocals is fairly new to me, but I hadn't really done anything with this mix. I know what you mean - that's always hard for me, to get vocals to sit just right within the mix.
@Astroid - *starting or going to a very distant key area, one that's almost jarring*
-- Oh man, me too. I cultivated a modal writing style specifically for years, and it's become a crutch. I have a really hard time writing in modulation I'm happy with... Been experimenting with a harmonically distant coda that might kill the modal-boring and no-ending birds with one stone, but I haven't gotten anywhere except to stick a jarring PBS station ID sounding tag at the end. heh.
*waves of bit reduction, like reverse stepped filter sweeps.*
Whatchu mean? In the denser sections my ears hallucinate quiet arppeggio-ish patterns (a bit like the sound of cascading bit reduction artifacts) I want to try to bring out by actually adding to the mix. Something like that?
*something like a smashy drum solo, like things getting smashed in a dumpster*
Yeah! Trying to make the last cymbaly section more smashy.
*contact mic purring from a sundrenched cat*
Everyone's doing that. I'm trying to be ORIGINAL here. Sheesh. ;)

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04/12/08 + utofbu

this is really great, i really like the dryness of the snare. almost a dark but shiny sheen to it.

I wouldnt say that its repetitive but I would love to hear a modulation a minor third down from the pedal and then pedaling a new flow within the relative minor. Perhaps digressing from that into a further change.

Or you could leave it be because its beautiful.

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04/13/08 + astroid

hecan-

i'd say go to a key area that you're not necessarily happy with, maybe almost at random, and then write the crap out of it there-a mistake that is written into stone. one problem i have with songwriting is writing for my preferences and not for the piece. the list of key changes i like is much shorter than the list of key changes that would work, and so i end up writing the same song over and over. trying to break that habit.

your translation of the bit redux thing sounds like it'd be right to me, you're the master of the +3000 hz realm

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04/13/08 + adcBicycle

very nice track.

like astroids key change and dumpster suggestions.

also, i'd like some bigger variations overall.

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04/14/08 + jdg

i hear you hecanerik

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04/14/08 + zfigz

a lil' sporadic...but eh, it's still pretty is beautiful.

i'd like to hear the vocals on their own like you do at the end for a bit.

yes...a jarring moment in the middle would be nice to give the piece contrast and so one can appreciate the pure beauty of its consonance.

it's awesome either way though...thanks!

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04/16/08 + madeofoak

pretty good... for a newbie.

also - is it just me or could the dude in that picture totally be your older brother? just sayin'.

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