Ok, this one is fresh out of my studio. I did this one in the style of a song by Lorde called Yellow Flicker Beat. You can find that song here: Yellow Flicker Beat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PdILZ_1P74 I did this because song publishers are currently interested in songs with a Lorde "feel." They wish to purchase such songs for Television but don't want to pay the prices Lorde demands. Just call me Mr. cheap alternative smirk I will send it in soon and see if I get a result.

Fortunately, BIAB has added some stellar new stuff that is making my job waaaaaaaaaaay easier! For this piece I made heavy use of all the new acid loops included in the latest version. Here is how the song is constructed.

First a bass/synthesizer drone note that holds for the whole piece.
That is Drum n Bass 175 in A minor. I generally write in Ab as it's the sweet spot for my voice but a minor key was needed here to mimic Lorde's piece.

Next a nice heavy beat with lots of kick, offset by lots of stick. That is loop 90, lowrider. Now we have the basic feel and beat. We are off and rolling.

Next, add a haunting vocal with precise annunciation and an echo effect. gotta have high end preamps and mics for this kind of clarity. Ok, I'm liking it. for all you gear heads, Tascam's new UH-7000 preamp/USB audio interface is the Mishizle. Dead clear, no color, low price for the quality. I am recording with a Blue Reactor Mic. High quality on the cheap, sort of.

As we start the pre-chorus we want to add to the tension so we choose a chopped dirty electric guitar from a different genera. This is 642 HardRockThrashHollow. You should always ignore the genera and choose what feels right. If you stick with the genera for what you are creating your song will always sound canned. Don't ask me why, it just works that way.

Then we draw back most of the instruments just before the explosive chorus and replace them momentarily with a HEAVY grinding electric Bass that announces impending doom. 1009 Bass HardRockThrash

Then we hit it, the money shot, the big payoff, the massive chorus. We add percussion, percussion, percussion. But under no circumstances do we add much for cymbals simply because the genera this song is in does not like to interrupt the heavy driving beat with the high resonance of symbols. So we get out some realdrums, MetalSlowBigTomGroove, we add some shaker for color, then find we are edging on too low without much shine due to the lack of cymbals. Thus we add a new loop, House-Techno-Trance called dubbyhouse_130. It adds the percussive high end. and the chorus explodes.

That is more or less how the song was created. From there it goes to RealBand, I add some backup vocals myself but use the auto Harmonies to backup the choruses. For effects I use EZMix2 with a couple of expansion packs. I do love EZMix.

Here is the song. Sound Cloud - You Bring It Like A Storm https://soundcloud.com/joesarahh/you-bring-it-like-a-stormwav