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The Breakin' Fires
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A one-man-band with all-original material, writing, composing and performing since 2005.
My name is Evan Schafer. I am an independent (or "indie") musician with a strong grounding in traditional composition, but I like to think my material always has a unique and individual flair. I guarantee not being bored out of your gourd when turning on one of the records. I produce, mix, and engineer everything myself, and have done so since late 2005.
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Genre
Rock • Progressive Rock
Charts
Peak #772
Peak in subgenre #86
Author
Evan Schafer
Rights
2010
Uploaded
July 19, 2010
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MP3 4.7 MB • 123 kbps • 5:20
Story behind the song
Evan Schafer - acoustic guitar, bass, shaker & block percussion, vocals William Schafer - trumpet Paula Jones - cello "The Breakin' Fires" grew out of a simple finger-picking pattern I wrote on the guitar, which happened to be in the complex time signature of 7/8. I had always been curious about experimenting with odd time signatures for my singer-songwriter work, as I had only worked with such T.S.'s for my chamber and solo classical works. So this turned out to be my, I believe successful, attempt. From the start of the song's composition, however, I knew "The Breakin' Fires" was unlike that of any I had written previously. I had debated with myself about whether lyrics were necessary, and eventually decided against them. Instead, I focused on the instrumental construction of the track: making sure the guitar parts fit smoothly into the 7/8 T.S.; perfecting the bass track, which is on a continuous loop like the primary guitar line, etc. The last decision I made before I was confident about the track was adding some kind of vocal solo -- similar to that of the vocal solo on Pink Floyd's track "The Great Gig in the Sky". I had no pristine idea in my head of how the solo would sound, so I improvised some falsetto vocal work, hoping for the best. The results positively affected the track, so I copied the original vocal line on two separate tracks (I then placed the doubled track slightly ahead of the original, which creates the illusion that I sing two different parts when I actually edited a single track to work *virtually* as two). The only vocal part which was intentionally added was the harmonized chord, first appearing from 1:44-1:50 (this was created by multi-tracking three separate vocal lines and leveling everything out in mixing). This same chord appears again from 2:46-2:54 and 5:05-5:15.
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