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"Show U How"
Written & Produced: Nov 2007 || Reproduced: Nov 2009
Show U How is like a sibling tune of Behave. They are in exactly the same BPM, and in the same House/Techno-infused style. And they both feature a vocoder at the chorus section.
(Vocoders can dramatically transform the character of human voice.)Like Behave, this tune also features short lyrics:
I'ma show u how, yes right now, we're gonna go wow
U gotta tell when, yes right then, let's do it again
Just let it go, go with the flow, don't say no no
Show me what u got, then give it a shot, u're so hot
Uh, uh, uh, that's the mojo
Yeah, yeah, yeah, do the mambo
Uh, uh, uh, that's the mojo
Yeah, yeah, fortissimo
I'ma show, I'ma show, I'ma show u how
And I mean, I mean, I mean right now
U gotta tell, u tell, u tell me when
And I mean, I mean, I mean right then
U gotta tell when, yes right then, let's do it again
Just let it go, go with the flow, don't say no no
Show me what u got, then give it a shot, u're so hot
Uh, uh, uh, that's the mojo
Yeah, yeah, yeah, do the mambo
Uh, uh, uh, that's the mojo
Yeah, yeah, fortissimo
I'ma show, I'ma show, I'ma show u how
And I mean, I mean, I mean right now
U gotta tell, u tell, u tell me when
And I mean, I mean, I mean right then
This is the mix page of the project, in Cubase. It uses 12 tracks, and some tracks' pan settings are automated so they move between the right and left channels. Those are Acid, Snare, Gt and EP tracks. The "Acid" track refers to the synth part at the high pitch.(hear) And here is Acid, Snare and Kick parts playing together. You hear Acid and Snare moving sideways as the beat goes on. Here's another bit from a different section of the song.
Score || Leadsheet
(Continued from the left column)
This is the main guitar riff you hear at the beginng of the tune. I came up with it by editing my guitar recording of Take The A Train, a jazz classic written by Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn. I chopped up the recording and changed the order of the cut pieces. That way I composed a riff I'd have never done otherwise.
Here's another bit. I probably would have never thought of inserting the Dbo7 between CΔ7 and FΔ7 like I did here, if I had been composing without the cut-and-paste trick on the PC.
And here's another. Again, this would be befond my imagination if I were actually "playing" guitar. Here's the same part with the drum and bass.
This is the Vocoder page in Cubase. There are two rows on the left: the top one is my raw voice saying "I'ma show, I'ma show, I'm show u how", and the bottom is the midi notes. Both the raw voice and the midi notes go into the vocoder (Vokator by Native Instruments) to be "mixed". What it does is the midi notes play the synth sound in the vocoder, while the raw voice's waveform is superimposed onto the synth sound. That way my raw voice no longer sounds like human voice and somehow starts to sound like robot voice with musical pitch. Or you could say the synth melody aquired an ability to speak some words, from another perspective. In this audio, you'll hear the vocoder voice in the first half, and the raw voice in the last half.
This is the drums software I use, called DKS and made by Arald FX. I like it so much because it's simple and flexible. Every knob and slider on the interface is midi-controllable. Here is the Hihat break part where I'm controlling the cutoff frequency of the hihat.
This is the main guitar riff you hear at the beginng of the tune. I came up with it by editing my guitar recording of Take The A Train, a jazz classic written by Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn. I chopped up the recording and changed the order of the cut pieces. That way I composed a riff I'd have never done otherwise.
Here's another bit. I probably would have never thought of inserting the Dbo7 between CΔ7 and FΔ7 like I did here, if I had been composing without the cut-and-paste trick on the PC.
And here's another. Again, this would be befond my imagination if I were actually "playing" guitar. Here's the same part with the drum and bass.
This is the Vocoder page in Cubase. There are two rows on the left: the top one is my raw voice saying "I'ma show, I'ma show, I'm show u how", and the bottom is the midi notes. Both the raw voice and the midi notes go into the vocoder (Vokator by Native Instruments) to be "mixed". What it does is the midi notes play the synth sound in the vocoder, while the raw voice's waveform is superimposed onto the synth sound. That way my raw voice no longer sounds like human voice and somehow starts to sound like robot voice with musical pitch. Or you could say the synth melody aquired an ability to speak some words, from another perspective. In this audio, you'll hear the vocoder voice in the first half, and the raw voice in the last half.
This is the drums software I use, called DKS and made by Arald FX. I like it so much because it's simple and flexible. Every knob and slider on the interface is midi-controllable. Here is the Hihat break part where I'm controlling the cutoff frequency of the hihat.