Little Umbrella
Production Notes
This was my first produced song using cubase SX and some free plugins. I did very little to this project except play it over and over and over. Basically, I came up with the A part of this in college while I was playing my Taylor 410CE, and as I'm really a jazz bassist in my gigging life (besides a flute player), I decided to go ahead and make it into a song (how hard could it be, right?). I figured out the B part using some jazz chord theory, and then had to play both of them until my hands hurt or I got it in time, whichever came first (I bet you could guess). Btw, for this recording I used a vintage Gibson E335 (1972) that my aunt's dad used. It was nice to play it on the real thing, but the passive electronics makes it very quiet.
I added bass (with compression) and drums using Beta Monkey samples and loopazoid (never do this). I know its free, which is why I used it, but it caused feedback problems, freaks out about its samples (if you ever reinstall or move them) and is pretty unfriendly. In any event, I can no longer edit those drums (mainly because loopazoid doesn't work in Cubase 4). After that and hours of drum programming, I realized that the song needed, I don't know, maybe some solos. So I started working on a guitar solo (with my new axis and pod pro). Bear in mind, I've never done a guitar solo up unto this point. I think Elly got a bit sick of this over the course of the three weeks I was doing that. The guitar solo in the song is actually a piecing together of over 150 takes I think. I was going to add piano solos / comping, but I gave up and faded it out. I like it.