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How I Did It

Blue Boy (Life Goes On)
by Ivan Chew
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Fri, Aug 7, 2009 @ 8:50 AM
 

Tools I Used

Garage Band.

Guitar: Epiphone Les Paul Standard.
Line6 KB37 Pod Studio.

Samples I Used

Drum loops were modified from GarageBand.

Original Samples

The rhythm and lead guitar parts. Also the bass (using GarageBand software instrument). I also sang backing vocals to panu's!

Process

Imported panu moon's pell into GarageBand. Strummed the guitar to find the right chords. Decided on a D/A/Bm/G chord. The whole track is based on that, and only that. I stuck to panu's original tempo, but had do minor cutting and shifting to fit the rock tempo.

Other Notes

Initially I wanted to arrange the song in the typical rock ballad pattern, e.g. with the break and guitar solo. But changed my mind and just repeated the chords throughout. To make the arrangement less monotonous, I tried to build up the song using additional guitar layers, drums.