Pop
The demo songs in the pop style. Each is described below, with the features it uses; About Demos lists every demo.
- Soft-Rock:
bless_the_rains.yml - Progressions:
06_chord_progression_generator.yml - Synth-Pop:
goodnight_world.yml - Soul-Pop:
peanut_buttercup.yml - Dance-Pop:
rick_rolling.yml
Soft-Rock: bless_the_rains.yml
An early-eighties soft-rock song in the manner of Africa, with a melody of its own: a marimba riff in sixteenths, congas, a shaker and a cowbell, and a warm pad, the marimba moved through the chords by Progression.
examples/by_genre/pop/bless_the_rains.yml · A major · 96 BPM · 3:00 · 6 scenes · 8 tracks
| chords | chains | ties | progressions |
|---|---|---|---|
| ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Progressions: 06_chord_progression_generator.yml
A pop song in C major made from three patterns one bar long, an arpeggio, a bass figure and a chord pad, each written over chord I and played through a Progression, a different one in every scene: Pop, Fifties, Andalusian in A minor, Pachelbel's eight chords, Pop again with the pad's chords inverted so that they move less, and Pop with the pad through a Voice leading generator.
examples/learning/06_chord_progression_generator.yml · C major · 96 BPM · 3:00 · 6 scenes · 6 tracks
| chords | chains | ties | key changes | progressions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Synth-Pop: goodnight_world.yml
An early-eighties synth-pop song in the manner of Sweet Dreams, with a melody of its own: a sixteenth-note synth bass leaping an octave, a cold string pad, a drum machine and a saw lead.
examples/by_genre/pop/goodnight_world.yml · C minor · 126 BPM · 3:03 · 7 scenes · 7 tracks
| chords | chains | ties | progressions |
|---|---|---|---|
| ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Soul-Pop: peanut_buttercup.yml
A late-sixties soul-pop song in the manner of Build Me Up Buttercup, with a melody of its own: a bouncing piano, horn stabs on the off-beats and a tambourine on two and four, the harmony moved by Progression chains.
examples/by_genre/pop/peanut_buttercup.yml · C major · 132 BPM · 3:02 · 8 scenes · 9 tracks
| chords | chains | ties | progressions |
|---|---|---|---|
| ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Dance-Pop: rick_rolling.yml
A late-eighties dance-pop song in the manner of Never Gonna Give You Up, with a melody of its own: an octave-bouncing synth bass, off-beat chord stabs and a disco beat. The bass and the stabs are one bar each, moved through the chords by Progression chains.
examples/by_genre/pop/rick_rolling.yml · Bb major · 114 BPM · 2:57 · 7 scenes · 7 tracks
| chords | chains | ties | progressions |
|---|---|---|---|
| ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |