Hi all,
my friend has a song (
YastoBoy by easylungs on SoundCloud - Create, record and share your sounds for free, in Russian, sung by me) that we would like to arrange as something akin to a march, but intended to be played by a modern electric band (drums, bass, guitar, keyboards etc.).
The mood should be easy and optimistic, but not comical. The basic march feel will be created by the snare drum, with the kick hitting on each beat or maybe even each second beat. I hacked together a simple MIDI drum loop to build on, but then got stuck on the bass (and rhythm guitar) part. Everything I play intuitively tends to sound like samba or ska, which is what I want to avoid. The challenge is thus to preserve the march feel.
Can anybody point me to some recordings where something similar was achieved? Hope I've managed to explain it clearly enough - English is not my mother tongue.
