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Songwriter Forum => The Writing Process => Topic started by: plectron on August 20, 2018, 05:47:45 PM
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Hello :-) i‘m new here and my question is regarding writing a classic disco song. So I for now I got real old school disco drums, percussions and a 4 Chord Keys progression, but I always struggle with how to arrange a good bassline and strings, so here my questions: should I generally stick to the songs key for these? Even if in my 4 chords I do not use ththe 1st chord of th songs key? Cheers guys
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Whato - I've done a few disco type things in the past, and working on one right now.
Bass - Keep it simple, repeat it, work hard on the timing, play it all the way through (don't do a couple of bars and loop). see the current post about recording bass in the 'Recording' part of the forum.
Strings - Keep to 1 or 2 layers, max of 3 notes in the chord, I use MAGIX independence, that's really good, if you after that typical disco intro. (so cool), that's a job for a MIDI keys person, out of my league I'm afraid, wouldn't attempt it.
Hope this helps.
Rich