Natty wrote:And Akira's right - 4/4 kick drums do not house music make. For one, this doesn't lay down a deep enough groove to be proper house, in my opinion. It actually varies too much without ever locking into something. House music is more repetitive in its hooks, more rhythm than melody, with variations often provided more by changes in instrument filtering and breaks and builds in the rhythym than by things like melodic shifts. I may be off on some of this, but that's part of my understanding of some of the fundamentals of House.
I'm glad you understood all the subtleties of the question mark I used.
Yeah, I don't listen to a lot of house, really. I just knew it was around this tempo and used a four-to-the-floor. As for the filtering section, that certain goes on too long, but I was recording it live and by the time I freed up a hand to switch to the next pattern I had missed it and it went on another four bars.
I certainly like the idea of changing up the synthesis as the song progresses. It's something I don't do enough (although I did a little bit of it with the bassline in the second half) and adding that especially to the leads would sound good, I think.
Cheers everyone, thanks for the help!
