I had my first meeting with Shayan today and I was able to show him a draft of the instrumental for Yardbird Suite. As an instrumental, it certainly needs more variety in chord arrangements as it feels stale and repetitive at the moment.
We also discussed giving each track its own personal identity, aside from being in its own genre. I have always wanted to record good backing vocals so I will see about adding some harmonies to Yardbird. Might also incorporate strings into Blues For Alice to invoke a smooth, sophisticated RnB feeling in the track, perhaps like some Sam Smith tracks do. I am partially considering adding another track if I have the time and making it in a neo-soul style. Perhaps something like K.C. Blues would fit well?
As for Ornithology, Shayan and I happened to discover that a more ambient style would be a much better fit for the piece. I'm imagining the listener standing in a forest, hearing a highly reverberated sax pop in and out of samples of forest ambience.
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