James B. Pollack · 2017

Promise Snapped Like Green Wood

125 BPMC# major3:08Ableton Live 9.520 samplesLean Arrangement

Listen to "Promise Snapped Like Green Wood" by James B. Pollack. 125 BPM, C# major, Ableton Live 9.5, 20 Ableton sample references. "Promise Snapped Like Green Wood" is part of James B. Pollack's Crowleyverse naming system rather than a literal one-to-one citation on this page. The connection is to the way Crowley's fiction handles world-building, layered time, memory, houses, thresholds, and hidden structure. Crowley was Pollack's writing advisor at Yale, so these titles also mark a personal artistic lineage, not only a literary reference.

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Production Notes
  • Core DJ metadata: 125 BPM, C# major, 3:08.
  • Ableton source: project "sep28jam1_oathbreaker", Ableton Live 9.5, 4/4 time.
  • Tempo source: Ableton project tempo.
  • Session shape: 5 audio tracks, 4 MIDI tracks, 2 return tracks, 144 MIDI notes.
  • Arrangement read: Lean Arrangement, score 34.
  • Ableton scan found 20 sample references.
  • No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.
  • Instrument tags: Drums, Guitar, Loops.
  • Arrangement tags: Lean Arrangement.
  • Highlighted plugins: Sylenth1, Effectrix.
  • Listener mood tags: Driving, Dreamy, Uplifting.
Ableton Session Data
BPM
125 BPM
BPM source
ableton_project
Detected BPM
125.0
Key
C# major
Duration
3:08
Ableton project
sep28jam1_oathbreaker
Ableton version
Ableton Live 9.5
Time signature
4/4
Sample references
20
Plugins
Sylenth1, Effectrix
Complexity
Lean Arrangement 34
Samples and Sources
  • Ableton scan found 20 sample references.
  • No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.
Crowleyverse Title Connection

"Promise Snapped Like Green Wood" is part of James B. Pollack's Crowleyverse naming system rather than a literal one-to-one citation on this page. The connection is to the way Crowley's fiction handles world-building, layered time, memory, houses, thresholds, and hidden structure. Crowley was Pollack's writing advisor at Yale, so these titles also mark a personal artistic lineage, not only a literary reference.

Archive-level title systemJohn Crowley's fiction
Research source: Hachette: Little, BigResearch source: Yale English: Endless Things / AegyptResearch source: John Crowley author site: Ka
Search Context

Keywords: Promise Snapped Like Green Wood, James B. Pollack, John Crowley, Crowleyverse, Little, Big, John Crowley's fiction, Driving, Dreamy, Uplifting, Drums, Guitar, Loops, Lean Arrangement, Sylenth1, Effectrix, Ableton Live 9.5, 125 BPM.

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