Final Project: The Adventure Theme

     On this post I will  be analyzing and describing the technical and compositional process of  The Adventure Theme, one  of the songs of final project Dude's Theme. My song is divided into two different sections, the verse and chorus, and both of then repeat twice.  The song starts on the key of E major, using a E add 9 chord. The chord progression I came up is really conventional and for that section of the  song I used many borrowed chords such as Dmaj7, Cmaj7 and Cmaj9. After 10 bars the song modulates, I opted to use a cliche that  is commonly used in Bossa Nova and Samba, and I learned it with Tom Jobim, who I previously made a research about: Final project research: Wave Tom Jobim. It consist in going to Am7 to A7 dominant chord that is resolved in C6 add 9. The next to chords I used A/G and A/F prepare the song to it's chorus in which it modulates to C major. The chorus starts on E minor, the III chord of C major scale, and then it goes to A and A add 9. The chorus section is based in a common classical music convention of Answering and Responding lines, so That the E minor and A have their respond on the C add 9 and E minor phrases. The rhythm fingering pattern I used to this song is the same one Kansas used in Dust in the wind and Eddie Vedder used on Guaranteed 

    When it comes to technical aspects of recording, I used Focusrite 2i2 and Pro Tools to record and mixing this song, unless the other songs on this project, this song is much more organic, it's not edited and compressed. The only plugins I used on the main guitar were Wave reverb and Guitar Rig. The preset I used to record that song was Bright delay.

    

I also created some effects using reverse audio to use it as embellishments

 

The final mix is really simple and organic I ended up with 5 different tracks and one click track which I used to keep tempo while I recorded, to be sure I was not speeding up