We all dread, but most of us have gotten, the call where a loved one has passed. We are sad at first but then realize they were a good person and are going to someplace better. That is what we were trying to capture in this song.

JonD just started to doodle around on his keyboard and came up with the basis for this song. We ran to BiaB, input his chords, dumped it into Sonar and recorded this.

The BiaB style was Citadel - Meditative New Age 3/4

I deleted all but the strings but I did modify the strings to better fit the song.

JonD is playing the lead via his MIDI keyboard controller. He also played block chords with his left hand. I did not like the block chords so in Sonar I set the PRV grid to 64th note and for each chord I increased each ascending note by a 64th. This sounded better but not quite right so I copied the chords and placed them one octave above and a 64th note increase above the existing chord. I then changed the sound to a harp.

I played everything else on my MIDI keyboard controller.

We hope you like it.

The Call

Whenever I get something stuck in the back of my throat, I dislodge it by drinking a beer.
It's called the Heineken Maneuver.

64 bit Win 10 Pro, the latest BiaB/RB, Roland Octa-Capture audio interface, a ton of software/hardware