thanks!
i am making an album from it, keep up with the news!!!
itll be recorded after i record for Unthroned though, so itll probably be midway through next year before i get to do it. I have about 45 minutes of music written for it at the moment, as well as many other ideas that will come together eventually, all up i plan for about 65 minutes of music on the final thing.
The process? Well heres an example. but it is possible to do these in any order at all.
1. random jamming, a lot of the time when im playing guitar im just making stuff up, for no real purpose, im not trying to write anything im just playing and humming along and exploring ideas and such.
2. stumble across a riff that sounds cool, begin writing a song based around that riff.
3. repeat steps 1 and 2, except now with purpose and coninutalyl refering back to the original riff
4. thought about the song, how long it should be, what i want to achieve (is it more like a story? a comment? an observation? etc) and.
5. all the previous stuff is repeated until the song is basically written in 'one guitar' form, usually with ideas of second guitar parts floating in my head but nothing written.
6. the 'make interesting' stage, where i go through and think about all those things (time sigs, harmonisations, chords, etc) that i might change to better achieve what im trying to do. Sometimes a 4/4 riff will turn into a 7/8 riff because the riff is better suited.
7. the recording process, all the drums are written and a click track put down for the song structure.
8. record basic rhythm guitars
9. now for second gutiar parts, usually this involves a lot of jamming over the already recorded tracks until i have the parts im looking for, same goes for third guitar parts and solos.
10. bass is written and added, usually ive got a good idea of what the bass needs to do by this stage and doesnt take long to write and record.
11. the song is then fixed and edited, drum beats are improved to suit the now recorded gutiar parts. extra guitar noises and stuff are added to improve the flow or feeling of a part.
12. the end.
thats the basic process for one of my proper songs, the smaller parts like the ones you just downloaded are a fairly different process. Ive just done this quickly so i may have missed out some really important steps, but is that what you were looking for?
oh and that whole process is quite a long process, it isnt rushed at all, generally takes about a month to get through that stuff.
