Not to mention, anywhere you add strong bass, that becomes the reference frame for groove. The syncopation in the bass is at odds with the groove in the percussion and is a little overpowering, which adds to the awkward feeling.
oh ok now i see what your saying. Yeah I kinda agree with you on the square sounding part now. I just put a sub on the chords cause thats just normally what i do with the rest of my tracks. But then again, the rest of my tracks aren't anything like this one.
Piano isn't subby like that so what happens when you add sub like that to the piano is it sounds like a bass that's just playing the same comping rhythm as the piano. That's really square.
Maybe percussive is the wrong word. What I mean to say is that it verges on atonality and has to be treated as establishing rhythm. The point I'm making here is that it really should be doing its own thing in this track. Playing lockstep with the chords gives the whole track a really stilted feeling. Nobody would only hit a bass along with chords, they would do some "talking" between the chords and bass.
The drums do keep the rhythm to the song, but thats not what I want you to be focused on in the song. Thats why I've giving the chords a bass, so they can stand out above the majority of the things.
oh ok. Well anyway, I wouldn't really consider a sub bass to be percussive. Its really supposed to be and extra layer to your bass line to give it a more full and deeper sound. All i did on this track was use the the sub bass as my bass line to compliment the piano chords.
Personally I just wouldn't use sub at all if you're only using it on chords. Sub is experienced sort of percussively so it doesn't make sense to throw it by itself on chords
you shouldn't always have sub bass on a kick. The only time i would personally use a sub on a kick is in trap music. otherwise I add a sub layer to whatever chords I have
The bass has sub but the kick doesn't? Why is that?
Man! This sounds spectacular!
Yo p dope. The tropical vox doesen't really fit tho c: