stefkeB

A silent and subtle song about praying, memories, silence, research, devotion...

A dutch song about having a first child and what it can do to you as a person and to your relation. It is meant to be positive and giving hope."Kleine Man" = little man = a child/boy 

Inspired by painting the windows of my house during the recent holidays, I wrote a new song. It is mostly in 7/4, but there is a middle section in 4/4. I use Ableton 6, which does not support changing time signatures, so I had to make sure that the third sections started correctly. I think it worked out fine.I'm currently inventing all kinds of songs in my head, using non-standard time signatures. I have to practice, though, to ensure I play them correct.

I often improvise on metal riffs, but seldomly record them. When I borrowed a Korg AX3000G from my brother Peter, I noticed it had some emulations of Mesa Boogie amplifiers, which are often used in current metal recordings. This is an improvised example. Rather slow and with little variation. It uses drum loops.

Three layered guitars, straight from the Korg AX3000G into Ableton Live. This instrumental is nothing but three riffs with three guitars. It is in 7/4 and is probably one of a series of pieces where I explore 7/4, 5/4 etc... Unfortunately, Live 6 does not support changing this throughout the song, as it was only introduced in Live 7. This could be beginning of a song. I often only create an A and B theme and gradually build them up. This time, there is also a C or "bridge" theme involved.

Filtered drums and wide soft pads. It also includes some noisy creepy pads. This could be used in a soundtrack or so.

Somewhere between rock and pop. It starts quite (= "stil") and grows during the song. It becomes rougher when the drums kick in. The lyrics suggest but don't explain what really happens/happened.

When playing with the new Ableton 8, I tried to boost the sound of a previous recording of "lasuur". Now it includes an EQ setting for Acoustic guitar, a multi-band compression and a limiter to boost the level closer to the maximum.

Some dynamics got lost, but overall it sounds much fuller and louder. This might be suitable for MP3s, which are often listened to with headphones and background noise.

An electronic playfull theme. Added some basic beats and beefed up the whole of the sound a bit.