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crashing seas (stafford)

duration: 3:34

recorded: 20140117

type: active

this began with an intentionally very, very powerful drum part, with lots of driving bass drum and driving snare drums - I wanted a powerful basis to work from.

next came the bass part, which came together very quickly, leaving me with a nice basic track over which to play a melody.

I wasn't sure what that would be, but then I was tinkering with my favourite eden synth voice, "distorted view", and I created a variant of it with almost no attack, which I then went on to use as my solo synth voice - and the most amazing thing about it was that I played the solo as one take, and what you hear on the final track, is that live performance - with one exception, there was a part about half way through the song that I really liked, so I replaced a very small section with a live rendition of the favourite part - so it would recur later in the song.

that part is quite odd, because of the "no attack" voice, it sounds like a violin playing octaves across two strings, but it was literally the same voice as all the rest - the playing style of bouncing back and forth between C4 and C5 caused that violin like sound, and then it reverts to it's normal synth sound. I liked that octave sound so much, I borrowed the idea, and replayed another bit of it about 3/4 of the way through the track.

I am getting better at nanostudio drum tracks, and I think that this is one of my very best - and it beautifully underpins the bass and synth parts, I am very pleased with the way this track has turned out.

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from music for apps: nanostudio - an eternal album, released March 17, 2013
dave stafford: nanostudio application

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dave stafford Stirling, UK

ambient loop guitarist dave stafford performed on stage with robert fripp and the orchestra of crafty guitarists in early 2009, and again with robert fripp and the symphony of crafty guitarists in 2015, and has worked with ambient music and looping for over twenty years. stafford has a rich back catalogue of ambient and loop music, +rock, prog or acoustic crafty guitar music: www.pureambient.com ... more

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