I was number 16.
ya’ll about to hear some noob technique here…
But I went with the easiest sample, which is from the eponymous G,B&U theme.
I used this as a great opportunity to kill two birds with one stone… learn to chop samples, and to familiarize myself with the SP404 mkII.
So I did the chop chop… then the vinyl retiming and got the chops on with the choir and the reverb tails from the horn section… Plus I took the three note guitar plucks that everyone knows, picked one, and went into the chromatic mode to do some minor scale contrast (I think, theory is not my strong suit, but my ear goes that way alot.)
For the bass, I went with a sample from Stranjah’s Liquid or Gnarly pack.
Now for the drums, I went to the wonderful Paragon Packs from Mike Schultz… I found anything that had a delay, reverb tail that mimicked what Ennio Maricone did with that guitar.
On the back side, I really focused on what the choir did to get the melody, and ignored the horn, but they are hand in hand, so where one went, the other followed.
I really appreciated when someone said my bass sounds massive… I am a bass head… like for REAL…
Goddamn Korg for releasing a minilogue Bass edition with black and red keys and polyphony… (the last thing I need is another effin synth…)