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It's Always Hard

By Anon_Buster on November 22, 2020 8:54 pm

     The last couple months I faced a plateau where I kept doing the same process for writing a song, but never quite felt like it was what I wanted. After I put out the Week 45 track, "Gate of Detrius," I learned that there are ways to make more interesting tracks. Since then, I've been working on making themes for tracks, more so than just creating a melody. The result has been longer sessions of writing ideas and playing with sounds to try and find ones that work for the track. Because I have been short on time because of work and learning more about song writing, I am working a little more on basic songwriting for guitar.


     The track you will hear is one I recorded after trying to make a melody alongside the chords. I found that holding fingers stationary while moving one or two created a lot of issues with which chord shapes and intervals I could use. IO think I understand why so many acoustic artists make up crazy tunings. I spent an hour just trying to get the first four chords to sound full while I moved my middle and ring fingers to play the melody/chords. Threw drums on it to try and practice finger drumming. Drum "patterns" are really weak in this track.

     This week's practice:
1) Acoustic guitar finger playing
2) Drums - finger playing on the fly (not programming patterns)W

Digging that acoustic guitar.  I definitely do get why a lot of people use alternate tunings and capos and whatever else. 

Cool man, definitely a different sound than I'm used to hearing from you. Always nice to hear someone trying something new.  Guitar is sounding great, lots of cool parts in here. 

Hey, this is awesome. Such a nice vibe. Digging the guitar too. The drums sound good in the mix, supporting the accoustic very pleasant. Well done.

It's nice to hear some acoustic guitar playing and the drums complements it nicely. Cool melodies and chords. You also did a good job capturing the sound well.

You're killing it on guitar.

The thing about guitar is that there're 6 strings, but you only have 5 fingers at best. It's a losing battle no matter what.

The guitar melodies here are awesome.
Also the drums have some really nice swing to them, maybe since you played it by hand without some quantization.

This is different from what I'm used to from you, but I really like it. It's cool to hear you playing with the acoustic guitar and getting it to do what you want. This would definitely be a cool thing to keep playing with an exploring, because it's clear you've got some interesting ideas blooming.

I'm enjoying your acoustic guitar excursions.  Especially on those picked lines.

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