Eric Tolley

This beat was mixed on the website soundtrap.com, a free program that allows people to make audio files from beats, podcast, and singing for free, but paying gives you extra features. My song “Horizon” is a LoFi beat that can also sound like a modern or smooth rap beat, but I went in with the intentions of creating a LoFi beat so that’s the official genre. I took the chord loops that can be heard under the bells from a website “looperman.com” as well as the drums and the saxophone. With that said it sounds like I wasn’t doing much on my own, but I did. I changed the saxophone pitch on the ending note every time it came to make the chord even smoother to make a relaxing effect. And the drums alone could have been used but I wanted bass. The 808’s in Soundtrap I used is called “Kick Vanilla bass” I used the bass to be the root of the chord completing them (LoFi doesn’t always need bass but in my opinion the bass was incorporated nicely). I added the bells, mentioned before, to create both the counter melody and harmony, The first bell you hear is the counter melody and the second layers on top creates the harmony. All of this was a manual process because even though i used loops I constantly changed and cut things from them to appeal to me and prove I don’t just use straight loops in my music.