popping the headphone bubble

S i didn't realise til i got home and tried to play the track i uploaded on my laptop that i realised that the bass beat i ha happening in the background could not be played out of speakers. It had been working fine in my headphones but i didn't at any point actually take off my headphones to test the noise out from speakers. This is an issue because i want my promotion video to be easily accessible and if it is something that you need headphones in to listen to properly then its already excluding a large number of people.
I went back into audacity and edited the track. I figured the reason it wasn't playing out of speakers is that the frequency was too low for the speakers to replicate. I heightened the pitch as much as i could and that has made it audible on speakers but it developed a loud clicking noise when it hit part that was too deep again i think. I'm not massively sure of the reason, but i went on an explore of the effects and low and behold they have a 'click removal' tab. So i think i've sorted that part out now the next bit to worry about is the words and a riff on top.


music test 2 from Rowena Sharp on Vimeo.


I went home and re-recorded my voice, this time listening to the beat on headphones because my last recording was so incredibly out of time. It really showed m,y lack of tempo. I also made a simple riff on the keyboard when i got back. I used a light twinkly noise to contrast from the deep bass backing beat. I'm trying to think of the music in the same way i would an image. Keeping it simple and adding contrasting layers that compliment each other. But the simple part is key because i am not a music maker and i know this would have been an easier task to dole out to someone who is but i like the idea of doing it all myself too much.

I think i'm going to have the riff low in volume and working in the background, like the oreo advert where the main noise is the beat but there is soft piano giving the music a pitch and rhythm. Theres also some twinkly bells which i could look into using, but the bells act like a finishing touch so its not something I'm allowing myself to play with until the words and beat are completed to a suitable level.