Tabula Rasa
Sometimes you need to clean the table, take a new sheet of paper, tear the house down and build it up again…
You might remember my “Stretching the Seconds” Post where i told you that i tried to make a full song out of a 30 second layout… but in the end the way of building onto the material i had didnt work like i thought it might… so i started again, just with the main melody and the two harmonic transitions and developed a three minute long progression of harmonics… but now i cant use most of the recorded stuff and i have to do the arrangement and production again… this is how the new layout sounds in the middle:
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the sound is too much “rock” and not enough “rolf” for now 
i am still looking for a cool synthetic driving sound that fits into it…
11. December 2008 at 18:41
Hi Rolf, this one is too slow to me.
The previous version was perfect:)
11. December 2008 at 19:12
This one should be called “Sketching the seconds”. The string part sounds nice.
11. December 2008 at 21:34
Sounds a bit like “Deep Down Below” or “Horizon” … same key / harmonies ?
11. December 2008 at 22:46
sounds very nice! maybe you could speed up the baseline a bit..
11. December 2008 at 22:46
now and then i mean not permanently to give little variations to the bass
12. December 2008 at 00:48
At start your playing down those four notes - why didn´t you use that later again?
In sum it sounds like the raw version of music for an advertising to me.
12. December 2008 at 00:50
Is that scratchin in the back at 0.39-0.44 ?
12. December 2008 at 03:23
Very nice!
12. December 2008 at 21:10
Great! =)
So far I like all versions featuring that theme.
13. December 2008 at 10:37
This version of the track much better. It is not vanity; Melody easy, melodic, romantic. Wonderful!
And sound a bit different …
Broadens the scope, becoming the experiments. Remember track We Just Need More. I do not like it at first, now I listen to it in his players. Perhaps of its kind when it was for you experiment.
I put experimenting with his voice into the microphone, doing beat-box, change the sound, tone color, tembr.I each in a different way.
As the old saying “You need to experiment, but otherwise the world will stop!”
Music - a very funny thing!
13. December 2008 at 12:28
Sounds quite ok to me but imho you are starting with too much combinations. With your great skill and ideas, the new album should be allready released
Looking forward for it!
14. December 2008 at 23:10
“streching the seconds” is my favorite snippet in your blog.
ive heart it already so often on my mp3player, so its not very easy to accept this new version. i prefer the “old” one. but i will put this here on my player,too, and gonna give it a chance.
anyway, the beginnig here is missing, i hope you take the same beginning than from the “old” one! please!
lieben gruß
14. December 2008 at 23:10
(wieso hab ich hier ein foto bei meinem antworten?? hää? )
15. December 2008 at 01:40
die erste Version ist besser!!!!
ist mehr interessanter!!!!
ich verstehe nicht warum du - “but now i cant use most of the recorded stuff and i have to do the arrangement and production again…”
- was ist der Grund?
15. December 2008 at 12:15
It sounds good, but sounds like Moby to me…
15. December 2008 at 14:07
@noice: i cant use the recorded guitar for example because the harmonies evolve totally different… instead of two changes there are more than ten..
i obviously i didnt like the first version much enough mself
i will soon experiment with other tempi - another benefit of beginning again - and will try out double tempo like in “stretching the seconds” but also slightly changing speed…
15. December 2008 at 19:30
Ok
do what you want!
- I like anyway 90% of what you produce!
and grateful that everyone can learn from you.
15. December 2008 at 22:16
I like this sound. The bassline is very ROLF!!!
15. December 2008 at 22:20
The melody of the bassline maybe it works not only this style i think.
Try to use this bassline at another style of music like the redemption 2.0
i can hear…i sounds like good!
15. December 2008 at 22:21
sorry “…IT sounds like good…” but this style is still working!!
15. December 2008 at 22:42
so there will not be any full version of the first version ??
col (crying out loud!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
30. December 2008 at 15:58
I like the melody, the too rocky thing could be altered by a more breakbeat like percussion (I first thought ’slade - far far far away’, when the beat started).
Also more fillins, or playing with single notes/hits could make up with the boring part of it - of course thats part of the finish
I still like it.
03. January 2009 at 01:25
I think I might like it better than the first one. It’s more dreamy
I don’t mind that it’s slow, it quite fits with the melody.
05. January 2009 at 16:05
I also liked the version “stretching the seconds” more. But as the new one is still under construction, I’m sure it will soon sound better. The changing of the harmonies is really nice, but I miss the crazy acid elements and the double tempo.
Generally the constant variating of the drums and other elements in “stretching the seconds” was great! No step sounded like the one before.
08. January 2009 at 09:16
yesterday the double tempo part (like in “stretching the seconds”) found its way into the new version - and it sounds like it will stay there
31. January 2009 at 23:36
I love this song. it reminds me at “April” (a little bit; I love April and I have been listened to it so many times). Tabula rasa is wonderful, warm and harmonic, and i think it don’t have to be faster. After all: It’s perfect! Great Track.