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I had a really hard time coming up with anything I could be proud of today. Lots of other things on my mind. But then I came up with a little melody and ran with it. This is one of the reasons I’m doing this challenge; sometimes we have to be creative even when our minds our fighting us. We need to overcome and do our best. We’re back to electronic today.
For day 7, I did another guitar-rock tune. I took an old riff I wrote in college and laid down a full 4 minute demo of the song. It feels really good to get this one out of my head. Enjoy. And spread the word please!
Day six is some 90’s-influenced “modern rock.” Think Gin Blossoms or stuff like that.
Here’s song #5. A little more aggressive techno than I usually do. Inspired by some 90s techno.
It’s Monday, day 4 of my Month Of Music. if you missed any of the weekend’s songs, give those a listen too. Day 3 Day 2 For Day 4, I’m releasing a track that will end up making the cut for Stutter. I haven’t been able to make much time to finish that project and I’m hoping that some of the tracks that I do for this month will be a good “fit” for that project too.
For day three I busted out my electric guitar and figured out how to get the clean sound into the computer for recording. I used the USB cable that came with the Rocksmith game and it turned out to work very well. I brought it in clean and used lots of effects processing to get the sound I wanted, and I think this worked pretty well. On the downside, I’m really rusty at playing solos, and even rustier with a slide, so it took several takes to get the guitar solos down.
On Day Two I decided to go back to what I know best – a little bit of electronic music. I had this damn melody going through my head most of the evening for some reason, so I scrapped my original plan and worked this one up. It ended up being longer than I expected, but I’m not spending too much time cleaning things up for this experiment. Thoughts welcome!
For the month of August, I’m recording and releasing a song each day. Read more here. This one was easy. It was bouncing around in my head all day so as soon as it hit midnight I started recording. It’s a short piece with strings.
I’ve been challenged by a friend to record and release something every day for a month. I’ve chosen August to do this and I’m going to see how far I can get. I plan to use anything at my disposal, including my phone if I have to. I’m going to use this as a chance to experiment with different styles, too, so if you’ve heard any of my electronic music, prepare to be a little surprised.
When you were three years old, you asked “why” an awful lot. If you have kids you’re probably sick and tired of hearing that question. But it is a fundamental question; it’s how we learn. We have a need to understand. Some things are learned over time, like “We need to eat so we don’t die.” But some things are not easily understood. Like Pointers in C. Recently I came across an exercise that was designed to help the student understand the use of pointers in C.