
BeatPad and Mouth Organ
The harmonica is not an instrument I have used often – I think the last time was on one of my first rounds of Song Fu – and it’s certainly not something I find easy to play. However, after a while jamming around on it I can usually find my way around it well enough to get a tune out without it sounding too wretched.
The first track uses a few different built-in pad and percussion sample kits on BeatPad, with three different harmonica lines, one of which is unprocessed, one is fed through a rotary speaker simulator and the other through a complex echo modulator to build up a thick, ambient backdrop.
This was a real test of BeatPad, using all eight available tracks and eight different sample sets, including a custom set constructed from the harmonica. Each layer is added progressively, then they are gradually stripped away, first to last, exposing the later layers towards the end. As the harmonica samples drop out of the track they are replaced with a live overdubbed harmonica melody at the end.
A simple repeated motif on percussion, harmonica and piano sample sets starts off, then it drops away, leaving the piano and a live harmonica overdub to lead out.


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