Evolving Textures

The “You Get What You Give” instrumental evolved a bit from its original inception. It came about from a lush warm synth sound and the certain rhythm it had in a chord progression parallel to another smooth synth sound in a slightly different chord progression. Then going on to bring in some choice samples here there before having it climax towards the end with some cool arrangement choices to bring it all together. I felt a ton of growth finishing up this track.

On To Full Songs

I’ll be including this music idea in a full length project. The line “trust me you get what you give” drove the vibe and inspired some cool sound choices. I reached the goal of creating 10 instrumentals. I told myself after that I reached that number I would feel at one with the production process and I would start contributing to full length projects, loose tracks and thus tracks with the full works that included the lyrics and vocal performance, and collaborations (other artists included).

Looking forward to putting out more sounds. I experimented a little with a full concept on this track with a hint of chorus with vocal sounds by musical artists Drake and Laurent, but the space in this track is left open for the artist. The next instrumental you might hear before you see a full on song released, might just be a track with a full chorus performances and open verses; to play with that part of production on a track or maybe I might just go ahead and put out a full song; we’ll see.

I know I’m passionate about taking my growth with production further and forming stories with not only composition and arrangement but also vocalists and song writing now. And I’m glad I reached that instrumental goal, I was close to going all in this track with vocals, so I guess now is the time to further the growth. But now I understand where a vocal fits in the spectrum, So I feel confident I can create beats for an artist to hop on, Instrumental only tracks, beats with a concept behind for a hook/ chorus, and now we’ll see how I do with full songs. Any artists looking to collaborate who think we would be a good fit; email me. Hope you enjoy the smooth ride in this track and keep an ear out for more.


 

You can listen to the “You Get What You Give” (beat) instrumental here:

Create & inspire,

Alex Gomes

Any Additional Credits & Links

Artwork credit for cover art goes out to PascalCampion.
Sample credits: This instrumental contains samples from:  “The Calm” And “Marvins Room/Buried Alive” By Drake, “He’ll Give Us What We Really Need” By Holy Name of Mary Choral Family, and “Blessings” By Big Sean featuring Drake & Kanye WestFor inquires, email: alexgomes@withgomesproductions.comSoundcloud: @AlexGomesWGPTwitter: @AlexGomesWGP

 Additional Notes: In terms of full on mastering I was judicious with it this time around  because I want to have other people start mastering and also some touches on mixing on tracks until WGP gets an in house engineering. I know some engineering and like to touch up tracks with some mixing because I feel that contributes a lot to the sound and vision (I’m a producer/artist) but as of now I take tracks through the full mixing/mastering process and look forward to having some help in that area on my and collaborators and projects.

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