I have finally gotten around to recording saxophone parts in the ACR. Thus far, I have all of the Yardbird sax and vocal parts recorded. Since the instrumental I had made had a much looser rhythm in percussion, I decided to play the saxophone in a very loose, overly swung rhythm to lend to the more loose and relaxed nature of the track.
Interestingly enough, I found that I was closely following some rules of the Bebop sub-genre when creating this track. For instance, I used two vocal takes on the main melody along with the sax, which created its own version of the “head” of a bebop piece normally played by all woodwind and brass instruments in a bebop group.
I have also started tampering with chord inversions in the electric piano and created a walking bass for one specific section of the track, that way it adds a bit of excitement. I hope to get the other two tracks completed in the coming days.
I also had the idea of incorporating specific bird calls into Ornithology, as it fits the name well enough and the hogh chirping would give a nice contrast to the lower register of the saxophone.
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