How to Be Cool
By bleo on February 6, 2022 5:41 pm
My friend Dani sent a loop of two synth chords that she didn't know what to do with. I dumped it into M8 and started tweaking. Got a decent loop going but then what? Oh yeah, adding vocals is the easy way out, right?
stay on the path of the positron
day after day you fall astray
sleep on the couch killing your confidence
night after night with mud on your face
feel like you've overspent your promises
bouncing your checks and balanced bones
what to do with you
when you don't know, when you don't know how to be cool
so setup the stupid board, then flip the table
you're wearing dirty clothes, you can't bear the clean ones
the silence only screams your ears are ringing
but you're always on time
Sent the WIP to my Shrimps bandmate Joe. He happened to be messing with the new Philip Glass piano samples and sent me a little improv piece he recorded. Seemed like it'd work as an intro, so I dropped it in the DAW, pitched it down 4 semis and let's gooooo...
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