Magnetic Rose – A driving rock song

Every year, there’s a special kind of collaboration that I enjoy a lot: team up with random musicians and create a song in an add a track game. This is how we created “Magnetic Rose”, a fast alternative rock song with a heavy beat.

If you remember my post on “Mr. Tumbleweed” last Summer, we organized a similar event in February. We barely know each other, we don’t have a plan, but somebody starts with one track and all other band members add whatever instrument, vocal or sample they like. “Magnetic Rose” started with the rhythm guitar tracks and reached me in second position. I decided to add drums instead of keys, because I saw this song converging towards rock. The risk to finish such a driving song without vocals or drums has been too high. Right after me, T.C. added a bass track. Finally, Rod decided to write lyrics and sing. We should have ended with 4 tracks, but I needed a wall of guitars, so we recorded 9 tracks in total. As you can see, the challenge is a lot about taking quick, irreversible decisions and getting things done. The whole composition, recording and mixing process took one month and sounds like this:

You can listen to the song on YouTube or download it for free on SoundCloud. The band has been awesome to work with, thank you for collaborating.