1. The Edge (5:04)
2. The Edge is a Funk/Rock composition created in Ableton Live. For the piece I began with a drum sample from Stevie Wonder’s song superstition. From there I took a song I had created on guitar and recrded a bass and guitar track. From there I chopped these tracks into the different individual parts that I wanted and placed them in time to the drums. From there I created the basic parts of the song so that trumpet and saxophone could be recorded. I created the parts for saxophone and trumpet and then recorded them. After recording the horns separately I chopped up the parts and placed them in the song. Once in place I began to layer the different parts of the chorus and verse with new guitar parts and other sounds. From this basic structure I decided the drum feel needed to be changed. I edited the drums to give them a more hip feel and then replaced them in the song. After this I added some effects to the guitar for the chorus. I then recorded the chorus lyrics and layered them. From here I found a clip on You Tube of Brian Wilson speaking on the NBC nightly news. I chopped this clip and added some affects on it to give it an “airy” sound. From here I began experimenting with lyrics for the verse. I recorded them directly into Ableton but found the quality to not be as high as recording through a flash recorder. I them played around with the verse words unitl I created some interesting mixtures of repeats. It was during this I found the part for the pre-chorus that goes “I think I’m loosing control”. After adding some delays, filters, eq eight, saturator, flanger chorus, eq three, crystal bass and other effect on different tracks I was near the net product. To finish I arranged the different parts of the song so that they made sense in length and timing.
3. This song is somewhat original with the combination of funk rock and electronic elements. The main feel of the song is that of a traditional funk song and a rock song. I think that it is original to comine these two feels as well as to write and created almost every element of the song myself. It is clear for me to hear many of my influences in this song including Cake, Stevie Wonder, Jurassic 5, Beck as well as the songs I have heard others produce in class. The drums are from Stevie Wonder’s Superstition and the opening and mid song talking is Brain Wilson from NBC’s Nightly News. Jake Zerebynsky can also be heard on trumpet as well as Kyle from class on bass. This song is my original composition and my own style. I think I can see from it that I have a tendency to stick to melodic flashy parts as well as catchy lyrics for the chorus and interesting song structure. At the same time I do stay true to different elements of my influences.
4. my music is having trouble uploading you can always listen to it on my web space www.rpi.edu/~cassej its called the edge
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