Folk
The demo songs in the folk style. Each is described below, with the features it uses; About Demos lists every demo.
- Few Patterns:
20_arrangement_shanty.yml - Strum:
13_classic_strum.yml - Chains:
17_complex_gifts_chain.yml - Hocketing:
19_hocket_shanty.yml - Hallelujah Chords:
secret_chord.yml
Few Patterns: 20_arrangement_shanty.yml
The Wellerman again, with eight parts built from only four note patterns. The harmony is the melody patterns transposed on its track, the bass grabs the roots of the pad's chords, and a counter-line grabs the melody in its own rhythm. Read this one to see how to set up a song so that changing one pattern changes every part that follows it.
examples/learning/20_arrangement_shanty.yml · A minor · 100 BPM · 2:34 · 8 scenes · 8 tracks
| chords | arps | chains | grabs |
|---|---|---|---|
| ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Strum: 13_classic_strum.yml
An acoustic folk song in G major whose guitar chords are strummed as a hand crosses the strings, down on the beats and up between them, compared scene by scene: struck all at once, strummed tight, normal, with the full acoustic setting of fade, loose timing and light upstrokes, and rolled like a harp.
examples/learning/13_classic_strum.yml · G major · 92 BPM · 2:52 · 9 scenes · 2 tracks
| chords | chains | ties | progressions | strum |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Chains: 17_complex_gifts_chain.yml
Simple Gifts on a single track, growing from the plain tune into triads, then synthwave, then happy metal, using only five patterns and a chain for each scene. The demo shows that a chain runs its steps in order, so an arpeggiator followed by an AutoRatchet sounds different from the other way round.
examples/learning/17_complex_gifts_chain.yml · A major · 120 BPM · 2:40 · 10 scenes · 1 tracks
| chords | arps | ratchets | chains |
|---|---|---|---|
| ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Hocketing: 19_hocket_shanty.yml
The Wellerman, held by a muted track called SILENT melody, with up to four voices taking turns at its notes, one note each, through a Hocket generator that names the melody's track as its source. That's called hocketing. One voice plays every note, two alternate, and four each play every fourth note; each voice has a sound of its own, flute, clarinet, oboe and violin, to hear the tune pass between them.
examples/learning/19_hocket_shanty.yml · A minor · 100 BPM · 2:14 · 7 scenes · 5 tracks
| chains | hocket |
|---|---|
| ✓ | ✓ |
Hallelujah Chords: secret_chord.yml
Leonard Cohen's chords for Hallelujah in 6/8, played by a piano, a bass and strings through Progression chains, under a cello melody of its own. The scale's own chord on 3, E minor, stands where the song has E major.
examples/by_genre/folk/secret_chord.yml · C major · 84 BPM · 3:00 · 8 scenes · 5 tracks
| chords | chains | ties | progressions |
|---|---|---|---|
| ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |