RPM track by track (part two)

Vignette & Vignette2
These two tracks came out of a thought I had pre-RPM which was to do short tracks with only one idea. In the past I’ve been guilty of stretching musical ideas too thinly and making tracks too long, or not getting into the main theme or idea quickly enough. With these two tracks the aim was to get in, get the idea down and get out in the shortest possible time.

In Vignette I had an idea of creating a track with a long delay and 100% wet reverb so that you hear the delayed line very much like an echo. I laid down the chordal part which sounded pretty much like I had intended. But then I thought it might be nice to add a little melody line over the top. Again I tried to keep the idea sparse and to the point. And to a certain extent I think it worked. 40 seconds of music. But that’s enough…

In Vignette2 I was trying to do something similar, but using a nice sweep echo effect. Again, same kind of idea – get in, lay down the main theme and get out of there. I added a little bit of post-processing, but on the whole it’s just as I played it. Again, 40 seconds. In, idea, out.