Music making thread version 3.14159 etc.

Einoo T. Spork · **Posted:** Sat Oct 27, 2007 3:31 am

So yeah.

You remember this, right?

We were working on that one song.

I am too lazy to upload all of the tracks on it right now (or maybe ever), but here are some tracks with minor adjustments:

Inverse's vocal track with the annoying background noise removed. Sounds a bit tinny but that can be disguised with all the other instruments and such.

Just like the first one but with fairly heavy reverb throughout. Mix-'n'-match with the first one as you please.

Putin's guitar track, except with some flange action for the very last bit.

Also, I am working on a cover of The Beatles' "I'm Only Sleeping". Know it's already been covered, but when I looked it up on YouTube, the cover sounded pretty much exactly like the original except not quite as good. As is typically the case when cover-ing happens, unfortunately. So I disregarded that one.

Here is my very very VERY temp track for it: Clicky.

I think I'm probably gonna see if I can do a version of it all by myself, but if you guys have anything to offer, that'll be good. Make sure it adheres to the tempo (and key, hopefully!) in that temp track. I'll upload the guide as to what chords it is later.

So yeah.

Inverse Tiger · **Posted:** Sat Oct 27, 2007 10:44 am

I disown that vocal track :P

But I have been trying to get more time for learning music again lately. If anyone wants to put together another song, that'd be cool. I won't sing, I promise :D

Einoo T. Spork · **Posted:** Sat Oct 27, 2007 5:22 pm

On the first temp track I posted up there, enough of the chords are wrong to make it... not a very good temp track.

So here's a better one.

Einoo T. Spork · **Posted:** Mon Oct 29, 2007 3:03 am

I made quite a few legal double posts in the previous version of this thread and it looks like I'm carrying on that tradition in this one.

Here are two tracks for the I'm Only Sleeping cover. One of them is definitely temporary, but the other could actually end up on the final track (although maybe not serving the purpose originally intended).

The latter is my attempt at making a bass track when I do not have a bass.

Here it am.

It is not a key-bass dealie. It is, rather, me playing a kazoo, then lowering the pitch of what came out of that by one octave. It sorta kinda works as a bass track, but again, sorta doesn't. However, even if it does not end up being the final bass track, it might be on the finished cover anyway. There's something very intriguing about it. Inverse said it sorta almost even sounded like a saxophone.

The former is my attempt at making a guitar track when I do not know how to play the guitar.

Here it am.

It's not very... It's sort of... Well... It's BAD. All I had available was a crappy kids' guitar. And since I don't know how to play the guitar, I had to set it so that when you strum it and don't put any fingers on the (TECHNICAL TERM ALERT!!!) long part of the guitar it makes a chord. Then I would slide around on the "long part" with something circular-bottleneckish in shape. Of course, there are both Major and minor chords in the song, so I had to do two seperate tracks, plus one extra bonus one where it does a Major 7th chord. It sounds, to be honest, really bad. It starts out terrible, and although it gets better over time, it only ever reaches the point of "almost mediocre." Definitely a temporary track until I can get someone who knows what the crap they're doing to lay something down.

Parlod · **Posted:** Mon Oct 29, 2007 3:27 pm

Hey if you guys want any help with anything, let me know. I can play the geetar.

Einoo T. Spork · **Posted:** Fri Dec 28, 2007 3:19 am

Hey, sorry for the insane megabump, but I just recorded a new track to that old song that Putin started working on in the Dark Ages or earlier. It's an organ track for the very last verse. I noticed the song was kinda quasi-religious already so I just went with it and it turned out pretty OK. It's slightly quiet, but I think it might be better that way.

Here it is.

AbuGrape45 · **Posted:** Fri Dec 28, 2007 3:59 am

I could give you a bassline. It might be a little repetitive, but it would sound good.

Einoo T. Spork · **Posted:** Fri Dec 28, 2007 4:01 am

Thanks AbuGrape45! That would be great!

AbuGrape45 · **Posted:** Fri Dec 28, 2007 4:02 am

You'd have to rip the audio from a video, though. My recording equipment sucks.

Einoo T. Spork · **Posted:** Fri Dec 28, 2007 4:02 am

'Sall right, mine sucks too.

Inverse Tiger · **Posted:** Fri Dec 28, 2007 4:13 am

That organ track: I like the trebly quality it has. It reminds me of vegas shotgun wedding chapels (which fits the white trash love story undertones of the album the song is from) and old lucasarts games for some reason (which is never a bad association). Also, you can almost never go wrong with organ anyway.

Maybe I'll get back on this again someday... I'm more interested in a different song off this album now tho. And I'm never happy with anything I do for either song.

AbuGrape45 · **Posted:** Fri Dec 28, 2007 4:33 am

Well, I'll have it posted in a minute. I checked the tempo about 5 times, re-recorded about 3 times, and I still don't know if it's long enough or not.

It's such an easy bassline it's almost embarrassing.

Einoo T. Spork · **Posted:** Fri Dec 28, 2007 4:39 am

No problem. I'm sure it'll be good. It'll certainly be better than a pitched-down kazoo.

AbuGrape45 · **Posted:** Fri Dec 28, 2007 4:41 am

Whoa. It's way short. Unless you can work around it being 50 seconds long, I may have to re-record it.

Einoo T. Spork · **Posted:** Fri Dec 28, 2007 4:42 am

Huh, that's a bit strange. I think you probably will have to make it longer... You might want to use the track I made as reference.

Unless you were already. Then I dunno what happened.

But could I have the recording anyway?

AbuGrape45 · **Posted:** Fri Dec 28, 2007 5:13 am

GOD! I'M HAVING SO MANY FREAKING DIFFICULTIES HERE!

My recoring equipment wasn't compatible with my FREAKIN' computer, or any other electronic in my house. After all the work I did to record it, you're gonna have to find someone else. But I did use the track as a reference, and simply don't know what happened.

I have this video of me playing the same bassline, I'll post it to show it off, but it won't help you. Especially because it's also too short. Plus I made a few mistakes.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=p7T50L97tsM

iand93 · **Posted:** Fri Dec 28, 2007 6:06 am

Hay guise, I made a mixdown of the 3 separate tracks. I or someone else can put in the bass track whenever it's ready.

EDIT:
Here's the same thing with both vocal tracks and the vocals a little bit higher in the mix. Also, the different vocal tracks are panned out a little bit. It sounds cool if you listen to it with headphones.

AbuGrape45 · **Posted:** Fri Dec 28, 2007 7:25 am

Do you think you could rip the bass from the video, Iand?

iand93 · **Posted:** Fri Dec 28, 2007 7:30 am

Naw, I don't know how.

EDIT: What's the tempo? I can make a drum track.

Inverse Tiger · **Posted:** Fri Dec 28, 2007 4:00 pm

Everything's based on the original guitar track, and I'm not sure if Putin used a click or clap track to keep the tempo straight through the whole thing. So I dunno that it HAS a tempo. I think that's one reason I got frustrated with this.

AbuGrape45 · **Posted:** Fri Dec 28, 2007 11:24 pm

Yeah, I had to come up with at least 4 different basslines to match the tempo, yet I have to make another one now. I was 2 beats too fast. It's frustrating beyond reason.

iand93 · **Posted:** Sat Dec 29, 2007 12:14 am

Ok, I got the audio from the bassline video. Someone could mess with it or loop it or something I guess.

AbuGrape45 · **Posted:** Sat Dec 29, 2007 12:15 am

Ok.

EDIT: The quality is actually better than I expected.

Einoo T. Spork · **Posted:** Sat Dec 29, 2007 7:30 pm

Wait, wait, I'm confused here. What song was Abu doing a bassline for?

'Cuz for that song with Inverse's vocals... It kind of already has a bass track. It was deleted in the Purge, but I was still using it in my mix. I thought Abu was talking about the other song I've been working on.

Sorry for any inconvenience.

I'll have to post that and I'll also have to post another track that I made that got deleted in the Purge.

Parlod · **Posted:** Sat Dec 29, 2007 9:23 pm

What chords are Putin playing? And in what order? Does he have it written down?

AbuGrape45 · **Posted:** Sat Dec 29, 2007 10:47 pm

Einoo T. Spork wrote:

Wait, wait, I'm confused here. What song was Abu doing a bassline for?

'Cuz for that song with Inverse's vocals... It kind of already has a bass track. It was deleted in the Purge, but I was still using it in my mix. I thought Abu was talking about the other song I've been working on.

Sorry for any inconvenience.

I'll have to post that and I'll also have to post another track that I made that got deleted in the Purge.

It closely follows the tempo of Inverse's vocal track.

Inverse Tiger · **Posted:** Sun Dec 30, 2007 5:12 am

Parlod wrote:

What chords are Putin playing? And in what order? Does he have it written down?

http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/tabs/n/n ... oy_crd.htm

There might be a couple errors in that, since it's one of those dime a dozen tab sites, but it's pretty close.

SEAN'D! · **Posted:** Sun Dec 30, 2007 9:30 am

Hey.
Uploaded a new, jazzy-type song to my myspace page. It's called Jazzken, cos I couldn't think of a name.
http://www.myspace.com/thesilentphilosopher

Tell me what you think!

Parlod · **Posted:** Sun Dec 30, 2007 9:02 pm

SEAN'D! wrote:

Hey.
Uploaded a new, jazzy-type song to my myspace page. It's called Jazzken, cos I couldn't think of a name.
http://www.myspace.com/thesilentphilosopher

Tell me what you think!

That sounds way cool. I really like it. You've got talent.

SEAN'D! · **Posted:** Mon Dec 31, 2007 11:51 pm

Hey, thanks parlod!

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