Musicina Blender

Michael Hedges (Guitar); Me (Bass); Myself (drums); I (Producer)

Michael Hedges Trio - Aerial Boundaries

As an experiment, I wanted to see if I could create a credible rhythm section (bass and drums) with this tune. (Listen to the original in the post below). My goal was to propel the tune a bit and give it some pop without taking away the essence of the guitar work. All the drums and bass parts were constructed from scratch, from various drum samples and plugins on my main sequencer (Ableton Live).

As a listener, I am very attuned to rhythm sections (having listened to a zillion jazz records for my day-job). I’ve played around with drums too, but am terribly uncoordinated with it. Creating drum tracks digitally is the best I can do. I worked on simply “fiilling the space” as best I could. It was a very tedious project, but I learned a lot about beat making and midi bass playing and feel confident in doing stuff like this in the future.

Enjoy!