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Midnight In This Lonely City

Song A Week 2008 Rules: Start to finish in 7 days.

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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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Dmin 75bpm 10-16-07

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.

 
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10-11-07 Dmin 88bpm

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.

 
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Music from 06-13-05b

Cleaned up 120bpm groove in . It’s multiple takes of me playing over top of everything else.

0:00 - , ,

0:07 - Dark, tense, hypnotic .

2:25 - Faint walking acoustic bass.

2:56 - Hammond organ.

3:44 - melody.

4:47 - Funky synth clav slap bass.

 
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Music from 06-13-05a

120bpm groove in . It’s multiple takes of me playing over top of everything else. Very much a scratch first run through.

0:07 - Dark, tense, hypnotic .

 
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