Oh well, here's an artistically dubious messing-around with a sample. It's Elmer fudd for like 30 seconds.
Also, here's a picture I draw with my new drawing tablet. Still trying to figure out how to use it.
It's kind-of a dog that's a crab or something.
I tried to get this done last week, but I ran out of time, then got sick. I've gotten well enough to spend some time to finish the track before eating a bite and going back to bed.
This is a note for note cover of two songs from a video game. If you're the first person to guess the video game, I'll buy you a frosty beverage of your choosing and moreover win my gratitude that I'm not the only person who's played that particular game. The segues between parts is my invention, as I'm taking two songs with different feels and basically lumping them together. The point of this exersize was to use a bunch of the gear that I've accumulated recently and work on my guitar lead work, which isn't terribly good and it's pretty obvious when I cheat like heck. How I cheat is left as an exersize for the listener.
Also, my last track was a little weak due to lack of mastering. I'm working on fixing that now.
PS: four days since the last hellagem? snap snap people. (says the guy who's a week late)
As usual I waited too long to start on my Hellagem, leaving myself only today to do it. I spent a lot of time getting my drum set configured to work with the sample sets I have, then just played the drums for the while trying to find a beat I liked, figuring out the melody as I played the drums, which is something I've never tried to do.
Then it was 4pm and I had work at 6pm, so I recorded the drums in a quick take, chopped them up to make the structure I wanted, quickly figured out the chords (capo on the 4th fret), kept the chords simple since I didn't have time to worry about whether they were generic or not (they are).
To record the $20 guitar (found at a flea market, always wanted a classical guitar like this, nice and dead sounding in the right ways) I used a stereo mic that was gifted to me by LZQ (he's got a sweet Hellagem on the way guys). I thought that using the stereo mic would save me the trouble of trying to figure out how to pan things to make them fit in the mix. I was so pleased with the results that I recorded the vocals this way, then one of my Casios. I had always planned on trying to mic a Casio rather than record direct in, and despite the mono speaker the stereo mic seemed to make it sound more "natural" to me, as it sounds to my own ears I suppose. Then I turned the mic over and recorded an ultra dirty backing vocal. While messing around I said "Stereooooo" on the first vocal track, then a quick "Reverse Stereo!" on the backing one, which I decided to leave in since this song has no title and no lyrics yet. I say some English phrases but I wouldn't concentrate on those too much.
Anyway, considering the results for the time invested I think I'm going to start using Mr. Trusty Stereo Mic for these things.
Also, this is a lot more jaunty than I usually am, I blame starting with this beat (which has stolen ideas from two songs I've played multiple times in Rock Band - "Maps" and "You Got It"). I'm not saying I don't like it. I'm just observing... aloud.
this was an old midi song that I did for a game that my friend made about 4 yrs or so ago (Dynamite Car Plane) the original was all very low fi 8 bit sounding and used square lead for all the instruments and some noise sounds for the drums, for this remix I changed up all the instruments and changed the drums a bit and mixed it more progressively, I also changed one of the basslines around and added it as another track. I really like the new version and I want to refine it more and do some lyrics for it, (that may come next post) , but I do think it's a bit long and in need of something more, I hope to fix those things in my next visit to it. Anyway hope you enjoy, and I'm open to ideas so let me know if you have any, thanks.
What follows is a rough draft of something we talked about doing for a while: composing with bits extracted from free improvisation sessions.
To add some texture, I doubled some of the loops with harmonic or subharmonic multiples. Then some lyrics, but no text until I can work on them a bit.
