What was successful?
I thought it was very good it had great dynamics and great instrumentation chemistry. It has a great structure that was organised. As well as it having guitar solos instead of singing for the melody and overall I thought the whole track was very good to say it was my 1st time using Ableton.
What was unsuccessful?
I thought that I could’ve played some instruments a bit tighter and more perfect but that was hard due to the time and I thought 3 notes in the solo didn’t quite work.
What could I improve?
I could improve by doing parts in one or 2 takes and redo the solo so its perfect which I did in the remastered version.
I first started out with a chord progression which ends up being the main chord progression for the verses and choruses which is Bm-F*m-G-D and used a clean guitar tone for the Intro, Verses, Build ups and the Bridge and some clean delay for the Intro and Bridge. I did record all the clean guitar again so I could make it tighter and the mic gain was too high.
Then I used distortion for the chorus and the build up and the guitar solos were my main melodies for the choruses. I wrote 3 different solos for the choruses which contained harmonise, octaves, dissonance, tapping, hammer ons and pull offs. I did record all the solos again so I could get them as tight as possible.
For the bass I used a higher octave for the intro and A lower octave for the rest of the song so the song had a good balance of bass.
I used midi keyboard for a section of Verse 2, the Bridge and 4 notes in the Outro using orchestral strings and grand piano for a whole different dynamic in the bridge and it helps give over section a different sound.
Finally I wrote and recorded my drums last because I wasn’t very used to the Ableton pad and when I didn’t have drums I used a metronome to keep me in time.When I wrote the drum parts I didn’t want them just keep me in time, I wanted them to have a part in the song like in the bridge I wrote a Travis Barker influent beat which stood out.
When all the instrumentation was written and recorded I mixed it but the clean guitars were still not loud enough even though they were on max volume so I had to reset them all back to zero and put the master volume on max so each track would have a balanced sound and the master would have a loud enough sound and then redid them all to the point where I was happy with it.