It’s been a while since I did one of these the old-fashioned way. Writing Songs from RANDOM Drum Grooves is something I’ve done since 2018, when I released the first one with Stevie T as a guest.
The concept is simple – roll dice to choose the MIDI drum grooves, write a song on top of it, get a guest to sing or play on it with me.
But that’s how I’ve done it for 13 episodes, and this time, I wanted to tempt fate even more. This time, I rolled for all kinds of stuff – including which guitar to use, which orchestral sample libraries, rhythmic patterns, and CHAOS.
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I also got some REALLY rad guests on this one – Rachl “Raxx” Quinn from the band Graveshadow to help me out with the vocals and Andy Gillion (ex-Mors Principium Est) with an absolute dickripper of a solo.
Here’s all the stuff I used to make the song.
Gear:
Balaguer Guitars Custom Archetype Baritone
Expressive E Osmose Polyphonic Synthesizer and MIDI Controller Keyboard
Plugins/libraries used:
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Spectre Digital Extinction Level Event drums and MIDI drum grooves
EastWest:
Orchestral Tools:
Soundiron (5% off at checkout with coupon code TREY):
Apocalypse Percussion Ensemble
Native Instruments:
Spitfire:
IK Multimedia:
Hammond B-3X Tonewheel Organ plugin
Freebies:
Project SAM The Free Orchestra
