Hollow Moon
by Velvet Rae
- Genre
- rnb
- Tags
- #808 #alt-rnb #b-minor #dark #halloween #moody #muted-trumpet #nylon-guitar #trap-soul #wurlitzer
- Duration
- Published
Prompt
Original dark alt-R&B / trap-soul for Halloween, 68 BPM half-time, B minor, no key change. A nylon-guitar riff (D-C#-B, then up to E-F#) opens the song and returns in the pre-choruses, bridge and outro. A muted-trumpet lead turns it into the chorus hook, answered and climbing to A; verses invert and sequence it; the bridge restates it on vibraphone over a chromatic Ebmaj9-Dmaj9-Cmaj9 descent; vibes double it an octave up in the final chorus and carry it alone in the outro. Wurlitzer soul chords (Bm11, Gmaj9, Em11, C#m7b5-F#7#9, Cmaj9, Am9-D13, C9 as tritone sub of F#7b9, G7#9), an eerie bowed pad, 808 sub locked to the kick, clap and snare on beat 3, trap hats with 16th-triplet and 32nd rolls, ghost rims, choir oohs in the late choruses, and a bridge breakdown.
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