HiveJam - A collaboration between two musical artists
Tonight a conversation between myself, @ale.dri and @harbiter began about collaborating in some way. I enjoyed the videos that @ale.dri has been sharing recently both on the drumming community and the Hive Sound Library. I asked him about creating a track, starting with some of his drum recordings, I could then add some chords on the synths, someone else could add something on top of that and then see where it leads.
So this video is a bit of an idea. I took one of the loops that Ale.dri shared with me via a Google Drive folder I’ve created, Groove 2 as it happens to be called. I loaded it into Logic Pro and then composed some chords within the DAW. I’ve played with some other effects on the drums, just to show what’s possible with stuff like beat chopping etc. I added a little compression too and some filtering on my synths during this performance.
Have taken a cinematic direction on this one and I’m envisaging an acoustic guitar to go with the chords. If anyone is interested in having a go, I can let you know what key and scale it’s in etc.
I’m excited about this experiment!
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Since uploading this last night, I’ve further ideas springing to mind, using different methods which I’ll share with you over the coming days.
Thanks hugely to @ale.dri for sharing his drum grooves with me.
It's a pleasure!
Hey Nick! I like it a lot!
I am very happy that these grooves make sense! I think that once the whole arrangement is finished, these tracks are worth releasing. What do you think?
Great video and effort!!!
Thanks!
Definitely worth it and yes we should release them. I’m going to export another version I came up with earlier as a wav file and upload to that Google drive - I’ve just done it, take as look at the new file just added.
Change of plan another post, another video
Very interesting what you've done here and how you sampled @ale.dri drums in an unconventional way.
I acceded the drive folder. We just have to decide what groove we wanna use. You'll add synths and I'll do guitars and bass, ok?
I'd like to use the track to participate in the next Vibes competition but for that we need the drums groove to be as it is recorded, no editing. I'll record a video of me playing a guitar solo over it and then put you and @ale.dri as co-authors of the post and we split the payout, deal?
Deal!
p.s. the grooves are already a bit unconventional in my mix, like in the drive folder ;-)
@harbiter I did use a beat slicing technique on my chords demo that I shared. Don’t have to for the actual track
Deal!
Fuck yeah let's go! @nicklewis choose your favorite groove from the folder and put some synths on it, then upload the Stems. I can do the mix and master after I recorded my parts. The track must be at least 2 minutes long but I won't go over 3 minutes so we have to cut short the drum part. Just do what you feel 👍