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Chouva

By Devieus on March 5, 2024 11:18 pm

Trying a thing. Specifically having the treble chip combine with the guitar to form actual chords instead of just power chords. This is an experiment and I'd say it works. I'll probably do it again.

The progression is sort of done through chord dice, i.e. rolling a D12 to determine the mode (the key is always G since I'm using the extended power tuning (DGDGGD)) which gave me Lydian, and then rolled the D8 a bunch of times to get the chords. Then I put those chords next to each other in a DAW, and rearranged them to make it nice, tweaking it where needed. It's great for a starting point and used it to split the chords into two parts, a shorter loop, and a longer something.

I also did it in 5/4 to confuse people, it's experimental so I might as well, there are no wrong answers; then added some equalization to finish it off.

The title is also sort of dice-generated. Using a D20 and a D6 and the following tables, you can make pretty words pretty quick.
BCDFG
HJKLM
NPQRS
TVWXZ
AEI OUY

Also birds say hi.

- Spider

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OOOooh! I've always wanted to try dice generated music, I shall have to do it sometime during WB! Great work it came out awesome!

Very creative approach! The result is very original! Thanks for sharing!

Someone gifted me a set of musicians dice a couple years ago. Very fun tool. They're basically awesome.

https://musiciansdice.com/ in case you're curious.

I hear lovely chords all the way. A magnificent composition.

Cool process! I would not have thought to use dice like that, and it ended up with an interesting composition.

You went all in on randomness, I see. Interestingly, the result sounds entirely intentional so I'd say it's a success!

Maybe next time you'll roll a duration over 2 minutes? We'll see big_smile

Hi birds! Nice chords big_smile

i really enjoy the guitar on this one and liked reading about your process.
hallo to birds! was just singing with a cardinal out this way  heart

This one goes out to everyone: if you're looking for a podcast to listen to that uses this process to make songs every episode, or are looking for one now after this description, check out BomBARDed, a D&D campaign where everyone's a bard.

DonutShoes wrote:

OOOooh! I've always wanted to try dice generated music, I shall have to do it sometime during WB! Great work it came out awesome!


We love tabletop RPGs too much not to do it.

xavier marques wrote:

Very creative approach! The result is very original! Thanks for sharing!


Thank you for listening.

Drum Bender wrote:

Someone gifted me a set of musicians dice a couple years ago. Very fun tool. They're basically awesome.

https://musiciansdice.com/ in case you're curious.


We don't have those, just regular D8s and D12s. The ones you have seem interesting, but only to determine key, or perhaps melody. Other ones I've seen online seem a little restricting in other ways, either being a fixed scale or a fixed mode.
You should totally try them sometime though.

Q-Rosh wrote:

I hear lovely chords all the way. A magnificent composition.


They've been specially selected, by luck, but ordered by hand.

mukti wrote:

Cool process! I would not have thought to use dice like that, and it ended up with an interesting composition.


It's also great for learning scales. Roll a D12 for a key, a D8 for a mode if you like a bit of challenge, then a D8 for the chord on that scale.

rplktr wrote:

You went all in on randomness, I see. Interestingly, the result sounds entirely intentional so I'd say it's a success!

Maybe next time you'll roll a duration over 2 minutes? We'll see big_smile


You can't randomize the duration, unfortunately, but I'll certainly try this week.

If you want to see us go all in on randomness though, check our 2020 and 2022 stuff, that's entirely random and then some.

Mission Crossing wrote:

Hi birds! Nice chords big_smile


They delivered them in tiny packages, it was very cute. They came back to say hi afterwards.

jwh wrote:

i really enjoy the guitar on this one and liked reading about your process.
hallo to birds! was just singing with a cardinal out this way  heart


I feel the guitar is a maybe a little weak, but its presence is definitely there. Glad you're enjoying it.
Birds say hi.


- Devieus

Dunno if I'd call it confusing - you actually anchor this one in 5/4 quite well. Love the chord changes, and that woodblock hit in the backdrop is a really pretty touch.

Sounds like D&D for compesition... roll double damage! Worked our well.

levelcapybara wrote:

Dunno if I'd call it confusing - you actually anchor this one in 5/4 quite well. Love the chord changes, and that woodblock hit in the backdrop is a really pretty touch.


The 5/4 was about adding a layer of complexity so there wasn't as much effort needed to make it sound unique or some such
Much love for the claves, always pulling through

NWSPR wrote:

Sounds like D&D for compesition... roll double damage! Worked our well.


Glad it struck a crit to your liking

- Ebrit

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