Whoopsie - just dropped another one.
I’m finding this whole business of spending some time playing, having fun and being creative just a little addictive.
The story behind the track.
I decided to create something in the key of D major using diatonic chords.
An online die randomly generated the numbers 3, 4, 2, 6, 2, 5. That gave me a chord progression.
| F#m | G | Em | Bm | Em | A |
The online die had not given me a tonic chord so I knew that placing one after the dominant V chord was a good option. That gave me a 7-bar progression. A little unconventional. So I placed a tonic D major chord at the beginning also. I had this progression.
| D | F#m | G | Em | Bm | Em | A | D |
I wanted slow-ish tempo so I programmed a 72 bpm drum beat to follow for my loop. From there I just added layer upon layer of rhythms and arpeggiated chords and more as it came to me. I devised a melody then a harmony part to go along with it.
But, I wanted more. So I wrote a second section. I took more control over this. I decided to stay in the same key and simplify things, choosing a progression of:
| D | F#m | G | A |
Some more layers and noodling and I had two pieces to join together.
Which is verse / which is chorus?
Who knows.
Does it matter?
I did a little drum then bass intro thing and a fade out. But other than that this is how I made it.
