Beauty of the Husband Day 12 to 13

Balt and I scrolled along the song and found the sample on track 59 guitar to be a good introduction of the song's pallet. "A Mantra Like Her Husband", the working title for the song was written in a flexible key signature of F# major with a 2-3-6 progression and a resolve on the 4 which can lead the ear to B major if so desired. The riff found on track 59 is the final movement of a decrescendo into the e flat minor. The riff leading into the chord contains the accidental of d natural, allowing the major 7 of the 6 chord lead the ear into an almost resolve.

But I used my basic chiasmus recipe of reversing the riff in clip view and then stretching and toggling the time, transposition and volume until a new riff is discovered and replayed. Guitar track 59 is one of the few exceptions where the reverse of the track already contained in itself a call and response of different phrasings. To create an intro out of track guitar 59, I dropped the key 8 half steps into F# minor. I unreversed the track and have the two tracks mirror each other. What's interesting is that after about 4 or 5 half steps some of the tones are dropped out of the original riff. I then placed the reverse track onto a beat repeat track, in this case track four and selected the tone and range from both the clip transposition and volume as well as the frequency selector at the top right hand corner of beat repeat in ableton live. This a screen shot of the settings:

The goal for today is to allow the reverse track play with the e flat minor 6th chord of F#major move into the song by both being a background and an emerging beat by use of track 4 beat repeat.

Check the beginning sound here

Results:

What it required was a pan out from track 4 into a new sound file so i could further stretch the soundwaves and control them better as well as drop their octave range without further breaking the waves. I then matched the beat to something regular, which allowed me to play with the beat repeat by flipping through mix/ins/gate with the fader to brings sounds in and out. This can be done ad nausea, but I'm looking to create and learn an instrument simultaneously and to use it wisely.

The template sound here


Like any editing process it is a matter of listening, exploring, selecting, removing and then emphasizing. Endless joy.

The middle aqua tracks are the chiasmus of the original riff on the 6th (e flat min) or F# major. D was the accidental. I can hear some lattice climbing vocal tracks which I'll work on tomorrow sometime.