Adding strings to an older metal ditty

[fdesalvo]

Not sure how I feel about it. Kinda makes me feel funny on the inside.

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[rgand]

I really like where you took it starting at 1:24. Well done.

 

[Cagey]

Sometimes a change in texture is a Good Thing. If you think of a song as a meal, then you might consider a piece that uses the same instrument/dynamics throughout could be likened to a casserole. Good or bad, it's a plate of a lotta the same thing. Yet another piece may be like moving from mashed potatoes w/ gravy to cole slaw to fried chicken. All good, but the shift from hot to cold or mushy to crispy or liquid to solid makes for a more interesting experience.

 

[Cagey]

I'm sure there are a jillion examples, but consider Supertramp's "Bloody Well Right" comes to mind. Changes lotsa things over its progress.

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[fdesalvo]

Thank you Robert and KG- and lol at the casserole comment. I aim for lasagna.

 

[fdesalvo]

Listene da few more times. I need to expand the new part and reorchestrate it. Will replace the quick violin and cello tracks with guitar and play it out a bit. Let it breathe. I do like the general feel and how it replaces into the solo.

Oh the rhythm is re-tracked with boosted 5150’s using a few diff cabs.

 

[fdesalvo]

Alrighty.  It's where I think it should be. Or coser lol.

 

[rauchman]

KILLER sound and riffs.  Very much dig this.  Not overplayed but tough and head bangin worthy!

 

[fdesalvo]

KILLER sound and riffs.  Very much dig this.  Not overplayed but tough and head bangin worthy!

That’s a huge compliment coming from you!  Thank you man!

 

[TonyFlyingSquirrel]

Me likes, and I am a firm believer of strings and metal.
Being a synth player along with being a guitar player, I look at the creative process as a "bigger picture" context.

I could approach things with the idea logy that I am a guitar player first, and a keyboard player second, but my opinion of that is that seems a bit myopic. 

To me, either are part of the tool box that makes the bigger picture of the music.  So long as what is being done benefits the song.

 

[rauchman]

Me likes, and I am a firm believer of strings and metal.
Being a synth player along with being a guitar player, I look at the creative process as a "bigger picture" context.

I could approach things with the idea logy that I am a guitar player first, and a keyboard player second, but my opinion of that is that seems a bit myopic. 

To me, either are part of the tool box that makes the bigger picture of the music.  So long as what is being done benefits the song.

Totally agree.  Not to say I do this well, but for me, I usually start writing a song on the guitar, but come time to record, the song is viewed as a song and not a center piece for the guitar.  Every piece of every sound from every instrument (include vocals here as an instrument, through both lyrical context and as it's own melody) is constructed to be complimentary to each other, and also to fill a specific sonic spot within the structure of the song.

And yeah, strings with metal go together like frosting on cake.