Saturday, January 31, 2004

Studying Song Structure: Powder Cruise Back in 2001, I wrote a few songs in Reason, and posted it on mp3.com. Since that site is no longer available, I thought I should find my old songs and re-post them somewhere. I was able to recover one called Powder Cruise. My focus in music over the last few years has been increasingly on song structure. Reason has a great interface for building songs out of blocks of sound or midi. Here's the song map for Powder Cruise: As you may notice, I was building the song with the intention of adding lyrics, but alas Reason has no audio support. Here's the mp3 playing in QuickTime. I know there are a few musicians reading this, and I'd very much like to hear your thoughts on how you approach song structure (send me email). Also, now that I'm working with GarageBand, I'm eager to find a way to bring the core blocks of Powder Cruise in, and then work on some lyrics and vocal hooks. ...of course, this means lots of grunt work exporting loops as AIFF files and converting them into AppleLoops. 4:24:13 PM    trackback []