SONG: "Alone" by Sanvean

ABOUT THIS SONG...

I wrote this on April 5th, 6th & 7th, 2011.

I'd just finished the final mix for Hayden's pong game project (see the blog for HaydenPong) and once I'd uploaded it to his server and notified him it was done I decided to start a brand new one.

I started with the simple but driving rhythm (made up of 4 different kick drums) you hear near the beginning and that took about 10 minutes but since it was 5 a.m. and I was too pooped to go further, I went to bed. When I woke up I jumped back in the saddle and started playing with layering sounds and samples over the rhythm. Very soon I had the melody line in place and then added more layers to thicken the ambience. The song contains 39 different instrument tracks, 19 of which are percussion. I'm using just 9 effects sends.

Oh, and it's all done on this computer I'm sitting at. I have a synthesizer but no way to hook it up to my PC so every note and cymbal is placed with a mouse click, in case you were wondering.

As for the very first sound you hear (the scratchy record sound), that's a blend of two different samples that I EQ'd the hell out of, a blend of rain (sped up) and white noise (slowed WAY down). I wasn't going for the "scratchy record" sound initially but that's how it ended up sounding and I liked it.

Anyway, I've spent the past 2 weeks messing with this song incessantly but as usual, I like the way I first wrote it the best and that's what you're hearing here. All my hours trying to tweak songs after I finish them are just wasted time since I rarely like the tweaks better than the first effort. lol

Anyway, this is my first blog EVER (YES, EVER!) so I hope you like it and I hope you'll come back for my blogs to come.

THX!

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SONG LINK:  Alone.mp3

Comments are welcome, good or bad. =)

Thanks!