(16-10-2019, 04:59 PM)Cudjoe Wrote: iam not a fan of what you did with beat of the song thougth,it sounds alittle empty?
You say "empty", I say "relaxed", "laid back", or "restrained"
I tried a lot of different combinations for the kick, but listening again to both my mix and the others, I'm happy with the call I made. It's about creating contrast between the different sections of the song, building up tension and release over the course of the entire song:
- 0:00 intro: very "empty", establishing the "heartbeat" of the song (the original sounds like me after my 4th coffee for the morning
)- 0:14 verse: the singer comes in, with her lovely tone and delivery, picking up the energy a bit
- 0:28 verse: energy picks up again as the snare takes over the beat
- 1:00 chorus: energy picks up again with the full-on rock sound
- 1:18 verse: energy drops down as we go back into the EDM feel
- 1:47 falling: energy picks up again because of the doubled kick (the listener might not even notice this, but you definitely feel the change in tempo. She's singing "We're falling, we're falling", so that 4th-coffee feeling is definitely appropriate
), which leads into the next section- 2:15 bridge: full-on rock sound again
...and so on...