August 09 2009
Loop available: “God of This City” by Bluetree
Tagged Under : Bluetree, Chris Tomlin, God of This City, loops, paid loops
This song has been on the back burner for a long time for me. I never really dug any of the arrangements I heard, but I knew the song had some good remix potential. I finally got around to putting one together for this tune. I’ve always loved the words to this song and thought it was really a powerful song. The dominant portions of the loop I composed for it are this sort of rhythmic electronic sequence. They are layered throughout so that it hopefully doesn’t get over bearing. I leave room in the verses and pre-chorus, and even the early chorus is pretty open and simple in the loop.
Towards the end though each component comes together in the final chorus. I’m pleased with how it ended up coming together. When we play it live it’s heavy on electric guitar so the guitars add the rock bite to it that you might not pickup just listening to the loop.
You can stream the loop below but you are not able to download the loop. In order to download the loop files you need to send payment through PayPal. The price for this loop is $2.99. Once payment is received I’ll contact you and give you download instructions. The following is what’s delivered upon receipt of payment:
- Loop (high quality stereo mp3 and aif)
- Vocal Cue track (aif)
- Master Reason 4 file (rns)
- Arrangement Details (rtf, shows exactly what parts come in at what time)
As always though please comment and rate the loop to let me know what you think. I had a lot of fun making this loop and I’m pleased that the original customer is very happy with it.
Song: God of This City by Bluetree, Album “God of This City” (made famous by Chris Tomlin)
Key: C
Bpm: 154
Note: the free podcast file is lower quality mp3 (128kbps)
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Thank you so much for posting this stuff. This is a GOLDMINE of a site!
Oh thanks so much man, appreciate the compliments, glad they are helpful.
For some reason the vocal cue file is coming up invalid
Doh! Had the filename wrong, just fixed, should work fine now. Thanks for letting me know.
This loop is fantastic. Love it. I made a chart in Finale for it… I would be happy to contribute it for the greater good. Can I upload/send it to you somehow?
Oh that's killer man, thanks so much. Is it small enough to go through email? If so you can respond to this email.
Thanks so much, I'll post it on the site.
-Kyle
this loop sounds nothing like the song… wow… its horrible
And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, Hebrews 10:24 ….
Michael,
Since sounding like the original wasn't my intention, this is actually somewhat of a compliment, though I know you didn't mean it to be. If you read the post I start by saying, I never dug any of the arrangements I've heard. And usually I go into creating a loop with some desire for and application of originality, not recreating the original arrangement. Though sometimes I fail miserably.
Thanks for your honesty though bud.
Kyle, Are these loops designed to be used within software like Live or Garageband? I am looking for standalone .mp3's that have click in one channel and loop on the other. Do you ever make anything like that?
I use these loops in Abelton Live which divides the playback and the click so I don't have to worry about panning. That said it's very easy to use these loops in a panned format. In GB you'd just pan the loop track to the right and add a click track and pan it to the left. Then export that mp3 as your "standalone" loop with click. In Abelton you don't need to do that, just assign the Cue playback(click) send to the left output of your audio interface, and the Master out to the right.
Let me know if that answers your question.
wow… HUGE improvement on the original. Love it. Michael, dude. Come on.
Thanks Dave!