Friday, July 24, 2009

"Crickets" by Ellis Hamburger

PLEASE LISTEN ON HEADPHONES.
it makes a huge difference

I made this song the other day with my voice, my ukulele, GarageBand (I still can't figure out how this comes free with Macs), and a drum kit from GarageBand. I also used the music typing to make a piano riff to loop in the background.

I'm going for an Animal Collective feel circa their Sung Tongs album (albeit a little cheerier and more conventional). "Winter's Love" in particular sparked my interest, with its mix of interesting percussion, acoustic guitar strumming, and ooh's and ahh's in the background.

This is my first attempt at creating a song of any sort, so considering that, I'm pretty proud of it. The second half is certainly better than the first, so at least bear with me until the uke picking comes in. Once again, please listen on headphones. My goal was to have a cohesive sound where despite the several layers, it would sound like one sound. A sound that sounds good.


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