My First Instrumental

[Keith Wilby]

I never thought I'd ever be able to write an instrumental, but here's one I made earlier ?

https://www.bandlab.com/wilbyforce/suzisioux20-9498bd5f?revId=6cd9dbe4-864a-eb11-a607-0050f28a2802

[Wookiee]

Nice enough track might benefit from a small breakdown somewhere but it works as is.

[Starise]

Nice! The bass is really coming through. Would love to know what your process is for mixing bass. The entire mix cuts very well in all ranges. I would say you have it cleanly carved out for each part very well. I couldn't tell if the piano parts were hand played. To me they sounded mechanical yet very good and in keeping with pop since it often relies on brief keyboard stabs/chords such as these.

[Keith Wilby]

1 hour ago, Starise said:

Nice! The bass is really coming through. Would love to know what your process is for mixing bass. The entire mix cuts very well in all ranges. I would say you have it cleanly carved out for each part very well. I couldn't tell if the piano parts were hand played. To me they sounded mechanical yet very good and in keeping with pop since it often relies on brief keyboard stabs/chords such as these.

Thanks Starise. The bass is the SI-Bass Guitar plug-in ("blown speaker") with a bit of EQ in the pro channel. The piano parts are originally hand-played, but the stabs sound a bit robotic because the timeline takes no account of the natural human error that would occur (in my experience, a player would naturally speed up a tad when playing stabs like that). I might try and put in a temporary tempo increase to see if I can mitigate that.

Thanks for your comments

[Hidden Symmetry]

Cool tune. Minor nitpick but you might want to play with a light amount of quantization with a swing feel on the piano, it feels slightly pushed. You could also try pushing the piano track back about 10-20 ticks or so.  But yeah, really enjoyed it.

[jack c.]

nice recording job and nice feel and bari and changes.jack c.

[bjornpdx]

Keith, I like it. It's a very toe tapping and head nodding tune. I was waiting for a solo instrument to come out into the spotlight, like a trumpet or something in a higher range. There's a guitar bit around 2:25 that could have worked, but too short. But that's just my opinion. Great job on this!

-Bjorn

[Bajan Blue]

Keith - cool track, i really like it - but I think it is crying out for some vocals!!! I think you could make a spectacular track with some vocals - now this is a personal thing I know as I rarely do instrumentals, but i do think that it would sound fabulous with some!!!!

Great job

Nigel

 

[David Sprouse]

I listened to this on a 5 inch computer speaker (mono) sounded really good.  Could be a theme song for a show or movie.

[InstrEd]

Could make a great track for a start of a movie in a big city.  So the question is where is your screen play to go along with it?