Theme For an Unmade Film

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While working on something else, I started playing a rhythmic two chord pattern. A sliding to B, staying there with staccato stabs, then repeating. Threw in a cheeky G, then an E and kept it on repeat. I knew I would forget it in 5 minutes so quickly put it down with a drumbeat on the BR-800. Various little motifs occurred to me then and I brought them in and out one by one.

It feels like a movie soundtrack, music over the end credits. A British thriller from the 80s or a cheap sci-fi movie. Maybe The Long Good Friday or Escape From New York, I can't work out which genre yet. I don't think I will ever add lyrics anywhere so it will probably stay like this.

I can't count the amount of times I've put a couple of obvious chords together, and liked the rhythm of them but forgotten that rhythm the next day. Then I've been left with obvious chords with zero feeling, and no way of recapturing what it was I liked. It was the rhythm that made them and now it's gone, never to come back. Shows you have to record it immediately, if only on a phone, to keep the spark of what you heard that first time.

 
I like this - although I can see it as background to something like sports, or other fast moving thing? I'm not sure if it's too modern for a British thriller, and not ominous enough for the Long Good Friday, or Escape. It's (to me upbeat, and the repetitive nature is not at all annoying, so I can see it on youtube, tiktok or similar as support for video with no real live audio. Skateboarding came into my head a minute ago while it was playing?
 
It’s a great practice to record your ideas before they vanish.

As to this piece, mixwise there's quite a bit of high end going on.

If it was me, I’d seriously think about putting some vocals to it.
 
The guitar (or whatever instrument that is) is kind of out of control at 3k. The cymbals might be a little excessive at 4.7k, but it's hard to be sure with that guitar cutting so strong.
 
Good idea you got here. Another good idea would be to consider all the comments about the high end on the guitar. The idea about vocals was good too, I thought.
 
Agree the one guitar has a bit too much bite around 3-4 kHz. Either cut its volume or tame with EQ. Add more parts and counterpoint with each iteration. It is a catch riff.
 
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