Post Your Final Lament Bass Music HERE!
Added 2025-04-23 17:47:54 +0000 UTCI'll be reviewing everyone's music on Sunday, so please submit your piece before then if you'd like personalized feedback. My own piece of music, well, I'm going to keep working on it! The livestream proved that I couldn't "de-cheese" the piece but I'm going to try again later.
In other news, I'm about 98% complete with the projects I've been juggling, so next week I should finally be able to release them to you and get back to regularly scheduled youtube. One video I intend to make in the summer is a big demo of Lament Bass - guess who will be providing half of the examples???
Looking forward to hearing your songs!
Comments
Lament brings such an epic feel!
Aaron Shemon
2025-04-27 14:57:40 +0000 UTCGreat work, Aaron! Could listen to that for hours. I like the production too.
Sole Brick
2025-04-27 14:36:01 +0000 UTCHi, I had started this late due to being on holiday. I’d put in an attempt for Week 1 but it was after the fact so I don’t think it’s been seen. Nothing for Week 2. I had tried a few very basic ideas for Week 3 which weren’t really inspiring me and then I decided to go with Dropped D and came up with this. Funnily enough, I was feeling a little deflated after my first attempts. But after watching Jake’s video with his live attempt on his favoured chord progression coming up with a “super cheesy Disney version”, I ironically felt the need to go heavy! And this is the result. The intro and outro bits give a diminished feel, with the tritones. The outro Gm13 has a tritone (Bb, E) The “verse” section has a “partial lament bass”, goes from G > F# > F, then a jump to Eb. When it jumps to Bb (relative major, then we have a bona fide genuine lament bass: Bb > Am > Ab > Gm (with sus’s in between). This section has some two-hand tapping going on in the background, following the chords, just to give it some extra layer. Again, as with previous submissions, please excuse if my music theory is off (most likely). I did get some help (again) from an app with chord names. Key: Gm / Bb Dropped D Gm | F#dim(b6) | F6(no3) | Ebsus2 | Dsus4 | F9/Eb x2 Esus(b5) | Fadd11 | D5 | Chromatic single line (C-C#-D, over D) x4, last time, single notes D-Eb-E-F | Eb-E-F-F# Gm | F#dim(b6) | F6(no3) | Ebsus2 | Dsus4 | F9/Eb x2 Esus(b5) | Fadd11 | D5 | Chromatic single line (C-C#-D, over D) x4, last time single notes D-Eb-E-F | Eb-E-F-F# | F-F#-G-G# | F#-G-G#-A Bb | Bbsus4 | Bb | Am | Amsus4 | Am | Ab | Absus2 | Gm x2 Bb | Bbsus4 | Bb | F | Eb | D Gm13 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iNPDmjRCU1Ip-qOifMZqXPCWlGe-Y3R_/view?usp=sharing
Sole Brick
2025-04-27 13:39:42 +0000 UTCHi Jake, thanks again! I'm trying a style I've been wanting to explore for a few months now. If it doesn't work I apologize. The length is long yet I understand if this were to become a real track it would be much longer (transitions are rushed, but I wanted the whole idea there). Any feedback on exploring this style is appreciated. I didn't dig into the harmonic portion as much as I usually do, it's all real simple but I feel well equipped to use chromatic lament bass in a more standard track now. Also, I need some better mixing headphones! AKG K24 must be light on bass because when I listened in my car and on my Bluetooth headphones the bass and some of the upper midrange are way overbearing. Any reasonably affordable ones that are a little more robust in the bass for mixing accurately? Dm add9 | Bb add9 (repeat ad nauseum) G | F | G | Asus4 | A7 Dmin | A7/C# | C | G/B | Bb7 | A7 https://drive.google.com/file/d/18ovKx0LJXjBJc5SNcBFmT0TcUxNaIkD_/view?usp=share_link
Aaron Shemon
2025-04-27 11:41:21 +0000 UTC
