Rhythm part to Vale Avis Tenebrica, the second song on my fourth Jamendo album, Points of Departure. I am making all of my original tracks for this album available through Creative Commons and ccMixter.

This rhythm track was built with Hydrogen In the attached .zip file, I’ve the original H2 track as well as a MIDI export of the file.

This song is in 6/8. It also features some unusual chords. The ‘A’ section oscillates between Bmaj7 and the slash chord B/C; the ‘B’ section has a pretty, but unusual chord progression:

Gb6 / Db
Gbmaj7
Gb / F
E dim
Ebmaj7+ (spelled G / Eb)

The middle section (at the transition between 6/8 straight and 6/8 swing) is improvised in related quartal chords (mainly Em11 and Dm11) then wraps up with some huge jazz chords:

Dmaj13
A13
B7 / G# (G# phrygian)

There are four tracks in this series:

* Fretless bass.
* Hammond organ.
* Piano.
* Rhythm track.