Progress on the song idea Slippery Friction

Previously we had posted about a song idea that we came up with during a live stream songwriting session.

It was just an idea that we thought had some potential after we did the session. So we started expanding on it and multi-tracking it.

Slippery Friction with Drum Samples Session

We tentatively called it Slippery Friction just because it needed a name. I asked what we should call it when I created the file for the recording session and Rob just said "Slippery Friction." 

So I was like "Okay?"

(You can watch the original live stream video here - LIVE STREAMS TURNING INTO SONG IDEAS - SLIPPERY FRICTION)

Here is what we did in this version.

Added bass guitar

We shared this recording session in a GitHub Repository. Cliff had recently arranged the clav keys of the two different parts I recorded into a song structure from that. 

Then he tracked multiple potential bass parts.

Searching for a beat loop

After Cliff had done that, I wanted to spend some time with it to see what else the song could do. And one thing I wanted to try was finding a beat to loop. Something random to see what it would do to the song.

So I headed over to freesound.org to look for something that was at the same 86 BPM tempo. I found a few and ended up using two of them.

Beat loops I used

hats_peace.wav - https://freesound.org/people/c.void/sounds/491327/

Scratched Beats 009 - https://freesound.org/people/GioMilko/sounds/380887/

I messed with these loops a bit in the Ardour DAW and ended up EQing the crap out of them. 

I also had to edit the "scratched beats 009" loop a bit because it actually wasn't on time with 86 BPM as it was labeled. It was just a bit off.

Needs more of course

And that is where the song is at so far.

I think it needs a guitar line next.

-Tom