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Title: Apollo Lee – Hamilton
Date: July 24, 2008
Software: Logic Pro 8
Genre: Ambient
Timing: 8:48 @ 40 bpm
What I Like About It
The instrument takes a while to float to the note. The way it builds up is gorgeous. It’s also a quiet instrument with overtones that move.
The base harmony [...]
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Title: Apollo Lee – Garnet
Date: July 17, 2008
Software: Logic Pro 8
Genre: Ambient
Timing: 7:42 @ 40 bpm
What I Like About It
The instrument is beautiful. I’ve used it before and I’ll probably use it again.
The harmony is D minor Rhythm Changes. It lets me get creative with dissonance and [...]
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Title: Apollo Lee – Fundament
Date: July 10, 2008
Software: Logic Pro 8
Genre: Ambient
Timing: 9:24 @ 40 bpm
What I Like About It
The instrument is an interesting blend of an organ and bells. I’ve used it before. I really like it.
The harmonic structure is something new, ascending major seventh chords [...]
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Title: Apollo Lee – Erebus
Date: July 08, 2008
Software: Logic Pro 8
Genre: Ambient
Timing: 8:18 @ 40 bpm
What I Like About It
My harmony was rhythm changes in A major, a harmonic structure that lends to interesting note transitions.
This instrument with its phaser effects and rich overtone series is luscious. I [...]
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Title: Apollo Lee – Defiance
Date: June 30, 2008
Software: Logic Pro 8
Genre: Ambient
Timing: 9:24 @ 40 bpm
What I Like About It
My chord progression was Gm7, Eb6/9, Fm7, C7. It contributed interesting consonance and beautiful dissonances.
I limited my use of too much processing.
Note diversity is good, with plenty of lows [...]
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Title: Apollo Lee – Callisto
Date: June 20, 2008
Software: Logic Pro 8
Genre: Ambient
Timing: 8:36 @ 40 bpm
What I Like About It
I used a I vi ii V Rhythm changes progression in E (EM7, C#m7, F#m7, B7), which lent a gorgeous ethereal quality.
After a couple of false starts with other pads, [...]
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Title: Apollo Lee – Bitterroot
Date: June 18, 2008
Software: Logic Pro 8
Genre: Ambient
Timing: 7:54 @ 40 bpm
What I Like About It
The structure of the harmony is descending minor seventh chords until the dominant seventh chord (Bm7, Am7, G#m7, F#7). It lends some very interesting harmonic textures.
The instrument is beautiful [...]
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Title: Apollo Lee – Antares
Date: June 12, 2008
Software: Logic Pro 8
Genre: Ambient
Timing: 8:12 @ 40 bpm
What I Like About It
The structure of the harmony is the first four bars of Rhythm changes in D minor (thus: Dm7, Bm7b5, Em7, A7).
The instrument is pretty and I’ve used it before. [...]
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Title: Apollo Lee – Subaqueous
Date: May 11, 2008
Software: Logic Pro 8
Genre: Ambient
Timing: 8:00 @ 40 bpm
What I Like About It
Staying in the Eb Melodic minor scale allowed me to use harmonies that moved from consonance to dissonance easily.
The mod wheel effect on this patch is exotic and mysterious. [...]
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Title: Apollo Lee – Driftwood
Date: May 02, 2008
Software: Logic Pro 8
Genre: Ambient
Timing: 7:42 @ 40 bpm
What I Like About It
The harmony lends itself to haunting dissonances and beautiful consonant soundscapes (Cm7, Ebm7, Gm7, Bbm7).
The instrument I’m using here sounds like a space organ. At first, I was going [...]
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