'Chasing Love' | First time with my own lyrics and singing.

This new song is really special.

For the first time I've written my own lyrics as well as sung them myself.

If you missed my post on Facebook you can read what the song is about in this picture below (taken from my Facebook page):

As I'm not really comfortable with my voice, I sung on the instrumental version I made but tuned it 2 semitones up. 

Afterwards, I took the recorded vocal and placed it in the original key of the song and pitched it 2 semitones down. This way it has that nice deep house type vocal to it.

 

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In the 2nd break I removed the guitar as I wanted the guitar to fade into the 2nd drop, but I found the song quite empty at that point. I decided to use a vocoder which filled the space up quite nicely.

TIP: When using a vocoder, make the carrier play deeper notes than you would usually do. Those (too) deep bass notes sounds great on a vocoded vocal. Also, make sure to give the carrier a lot of noise to it as this gives the vocoded vocal a nice spark to it.

The idea of the guitar melody came to me after I heard Tracy Chapman's 'Fast Car' + wanted to make a song with those nice "sunsetting" summer vibes to it (therefore the cover art picture). 

Thank you for reading this! And thank you for listening. Please tell me what you think about it :)

- MusicDAB.