September 2011
5 posts
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The Guitar Perspective - keeping the limelight.
Jay’s Comments on “Enigma” Enigma Gareth wrote the majority of this song on keyboard and the challenge for me was to create enough differentiation between the various sections. We had to build the arrangement to reach a chorus, then bring it back down enough to build the dynamics up to the second chorus. The toughest thing for me was fitting the guitar around his existing...
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The Bass Perspective - when the drums stopped.
Rhayn’s Comments on the “Enigma”
Enigma
This was the first of a handful of songs that were played to me right at the beginning when I was asked to join Sankara. What struck me straight off the bat was the melody and the lyric content. My additions here were few as the structure had already been set. The original verse bass line was the rhythmic starting point, however once I...
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Drum Breaks, First Takes & Jaffa Cakes:
How to record an EP without spending any money (except on Jaffa Cakes!) Part One.
Most of us are familiar with the “Classic Albums” documentary series made by Isis Productions and distributed by Eagle Rock Entertainment. When focusing on the production of a landmark album there’s a fair amount of footage of some Grammy-award winning producer, sometimes accompanied by one-or-more...
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Drum Breaks, First Takes & Jaffa Cakes:
How to record an EP without spending any money (except on Jaffa Cakes!)
Part Two.
The more noise you make, the more the sound waves bounce around in the space you’re recording in, reflecting off walls and being picked up by the microphones you’re attempting to capture the sound with. This isn’t really a problem if you stick a mic right up against the speaker in a guitar...
