AmbientBlue demo mp3

Alright, I said I was gonna do it, so here it is (in all of its unrefined glory). I’m sharing my new demo AmbientBlue with you nice people simply to illustrate the rigorous process of recording music. As I mentioned previously, this started as a spontaneous jam one sunny afternoon in an attempt to explore bridging both the Ambient and Blues Rock genres. The initial step taken here was grabbing my guitar, hitting record, and then simply jamming. This doesn’t produce a perfect beat by any means, but it’s well enough to get an idea for structuring the song as a whole. After that, I built the bass, drums, and cymbals by hand using my drum machine (which I haven’t really figured out how to use properly).

Next, I recorded the rhythm guitars alongside the newly built drum track to help bump up the body of the jam into a typical Em/A blues riff. I then turned it loose upon Adam who gave a few whacks at some lead guitar. I didn’t really know how I wanted the lead to go, so we just improvised and went in as many directions as possible. The irony of this demo is that I had intended for him to play the lead during the last half and I was gonna write a lead for the first half. But it ended up being completely opposite. So Adam’s lead is behind the ambient part and my (original) lead remains in front of the blues part. I thought that was strange.

I then had enough material to sit down and work with building a finalized structure for the song. This required a good bit of track editing in Cubase to clean up and rearrange various pieces. At any rate, this piece is still far from completion, as I want to rerecord the two leads to try and polish them up. Currently, they’re a bit too sloppy and chaotic for what I’m trying to achieve, but they still provide a very effective guideline for how it will end up. All in all, I like the way the song is progressing and find it very fun to experiment with. I’m interested to hear what you guys and gals think of it so far. Yea or Nay? Be honest now!

More as it comes.