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Download: Midnight In This Lonely City
Last.fm: Midnight In This Lonely City
The storm it keeps me up tonight
The thunder thrashes any peace
A clouded mind I’m thinking through
Sometimes it’s hard to see the truth
The hero always finds a way
To save the world and get the girl
But I’m a man who’s lost this fight
There’s no hero here tonight
So why can’t I be stronger for you
I try to live my life with virtue
It’s midnight in this lonely city
I want your love and not your pity please
I lay my head down on the bed
And wonder how it came to this
There’s not a dream I haven’t lost
There’s no desire without a cost
And all my plans to make a change
Are only rumors in the wind
But I’m afraid that what is real
Will turn my heart to solid steel
So why can’t I be stronger for you
I try to live my life with virtue
It’s midnight in this lonely city
I want your love and not your pity please
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(10 votes, average: 4.6 out of 5)I was feeling mellow today and needed to spend some time in the new Logic Pro 8 so this is what I came up with.
Looks like I’ve been spending a lot of time in Dmin lately.




(2 votes, average: 4.5 out of 5)This slow techno/R&B track begins with A phrygian chord and is tonally centered on Dmin Aeolian. I was playing around with the new Logic Pro 8 Template Chooser and used the basic electronic template as my palette.
I quickly came up with a simple descending synth hook that I liked. I’m also playing around with a vocal melody that’s not in the mix yet.




(1 votes, average: 4 out of 5)Cleaned up 120bpm electronic groove in Dmin. It’s multiple takes of me playing over top of everything else.
0:00 - Apple loop, Step Freak Beat, rhodes
0:07 - Dark, tense, hypnotic melody.
2:25 - Faint walking acoustic bass.
2:56 - Hammond organ.
3:44 - melody.
4:47 - Funky synth clav slap bass.




(1 votes, average: 4 out of 5)120bpm electronic groove in Dmin. It’s multiple takes of me playing over top of everything else. Very much a scratch first run through.
0:07 - Dark, tense, hypnotic melody.




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