A brief walk through this amazing Afrobeat cover of the song 'bellyache'. So this is not an original song the reference link can be found at the bottom of this post.
I used Ableton live 10, my favourite digital audio workstation with in built instrument and a variety of African percussion from a third party. One interesting feature in Ableton is its ability to edit and process videos just as much as audios, so I dragged the video into an audio track in the session view and boom the video surfaced, I applied filter effect to cut out the low end frequency to about 350hz, this is to reduce/remove the kick in the video, then, I boosted the high ends at around 7000hz.
I made some bars of conventional Afrobeat percussions and drum which I added, I used an African shaker loop to fill in the spaces between the rimshot sequence.
I added Electric piano from Ableton instruments, the song is on key G. The chord progression was Cmaj, Amin,Emin, D/G. The bridge 'maybe it's in the gutter' had a fuji/JuJu syncopation made up of brass, electric piano and bass. The song panned out with sounds of bell and high suspense strings.
Enough said already, please watch and enjoy
original video
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