Originally Posted by rayc
The organ is the hero of this piece...things become, forgive me, organic once it kicks in.
Well done.

Thanks for the response, Ray. The organ is so key in the majority of my tracks. After I've got the chord structure I want, the first part of what really is an organic process is getting the rhythm section sorted. Once that's down I can then spend hours collecting oodles of samples to try out for the solos and most often 20-40 are rejected before finding those that truly organically fit, though even then I find I often have to cut and paste regenerations of chosen instruments. I just completed my 1st instrumental of 2025 which at 85bpm is the slowest I've yet done, but the chord structure doesn't lend itself to solos, so the opening one I could only make work by cutting and pasting 7 sections from 5 different regenerations, then the 2nd solo is a hybrid of 4 regenerations, only the final solo being perfect first time out!

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#1: Play on the Way.
#13: Ask not for whom the flower blooms, it blooms for you.
#58: Bring consciousness to it.
#63: On the road to effortlessness, effort must be made.
#92: Be Love Now, the rest will come on its own.