Remix #7

September 8, 2015July 25, 2017 Ethan!

This is a remix of Take Me To Church by Hozier for promotional purposes only. This song changes meter, and it was fun to figure out how to do a dubstep beat for the verses, which are in 3, without making it an obvious waltz feel. Hope you enjoy, and as always please like and […]

Stringstep

September 6, 2015July 25, 2017 Ethan!

This piece was written for a pole dancing competition (yes, apparently that’s a thing). The request was for “classical strings with dubstep,” and I think I did a pretty good job of integrating the strings with the glitches.

Using pentatonic scales to create major modes: Ionian

September 5, 2015July 25, 2017 Ethan!

Today I’ve been thinking about the major pentatonic scale. It’s a scale that players in most styles of music know. If you don’t know the sound, think the bass line from “My Girl.” Most people approach this scale as root based to the key they’re in. For example, the song is in C major, you […]

Remix #6

September 4, 2015July 25, 2017 Ethan!

FULL DUBSTEP! I got to go full dubstep with this one. It has a wonderful sounding vocal, so I brought all the glitches, growls, wobbles, and beeps that I thought would work with the voice and chord progression. I enjoy working in this tempo as well because there’s more room for some tricky drum fills […]

Remix #5

September 3, 2015July 25, 2017 Ethan!

I love complextro and glitch music, so for this remix, I combined some noisy sounds with an FM sound to make the bass track. I also got a little lucky and got the hi hats to swing just the way I wanted. I like to make peak hour kinds of music with lots of energy. […]

Remix #4

September 2, 2015July 25, 2017 Ethan!

For this remix, I took a pretty understated, quiet track and sped it up, and then used some cutting sounds to give it more energy. The bass sound is a combination of sounds from Rounds, by Native Instruments. I’m finding that its ability to combine digital and analog synthesis into one complex sound makes for […]

Remix #3

September 1, 2015July 25, 2017 Ethan!

This is a remix of a techno song that I made into more of a house track. I did most of this on the Maschine, which is something I’ve been wanting to do, but hadn’t gotten around to until now. It has some fantastic sounds in it, and is fun to finger drum on. I […]

Ethan James Music

Composer, producer, bassist for the band Finer, DJ, controllerism, performance

Month: September 2015