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Another thing for taking out the low end of everything else: ALWAYS CHECK YOUR HIHATS. You’ll be surprised how many hihat samples have phantom sub frequencies that can mess up your mix.
The two loop method here lines up with something I learned years ago in high school band and music theory, that most musical phrases are in 4 or 8 bars. I'm not sure if there's something inherent to our brains, or if we are culturally predisposed to expecting music to operate in 4 or 8 bars, but it's a phenomenon that goes back to classical music.
When I first heard these song , the melodies I immediately fell in love. I had this playing on repeat almost unconsciously as I read a very dark book my partner introduced me to, “Unmasked: The Gonzales Family Killer”. The high level of this auditory stimulation coupled with the deep emotional outpouring of what I was reading has been phenomenal. With words I cannot describe how time after time this track manages to manifest the same myriad feelings & emotional states I felt many years ago when i had played this for the first time. The beautiful orchestration of this musical genius leaves me with goosebumps every random time it is played and has forged number 1 for me till now n will be till the end .
There's a lot more involved. You're saying, loop 2 bars. Well, popular songs don't really do much more than that. In the old days, we used the 1.618 ratio for arrangements. It's sorta a fractal balance. Tool really inspired me with arrangements that repeat but change motifs. Then, there's modulation which eventually resolves to the main tonic chord. But yeah... Mostly, loop 2 bars. The whole song should be able to condense to two bars that anyone would recognize as that song, like how a fractal pattern can be zoomed in and still show the geometry of the whole, which is infinite micro and macro.
