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Rough Power

By Devieus on August 11, 2024 8:11 pm

Had a bit of a tough time actually making it, but laziness breeds creativity. In this case, just one guitar setting and while I did make an error during recording, I just pivoted the song around it. See if you can pick it up. Bonus points for every other mistake that I just kept in for flavor.

The whole "this is how we make a chorus now" system works well enough, I've hit one really strong progression there it feels like and the system just ties it together. It's a lengthy one though, so now this song is 4 and a half minutes. I've definitely had harder times recording much shorter songs, and going from "every bar counts" to "every four bars or so is a good target" helps with both of those things.

Making music is just fun. You should do it.
- Spider

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I dig all the change ups happening throughout. You've got some nice unexpected chord progressions which is refreshing.

i'm in the underground power generating part of the city where a bunch of rough and tumble biker gnomes live.

you have to battle one in an arm wrestling / drinking contest to unlock the "bike gang" transportation type that will let let you cross the previously inaccessible wasteland area.

This is so evocative of the 90s era side scrolling beat em up games. Tough burly dudes battling endless hordes of flunkies.
Great work!

that_ranjit wrote:

I dig all the change ups happening throughout. You've got some nice unexpected chord progressions which is refreshing.


I love my chord progressions, I'm chord progression maxing, it's like making a grand stand and blindsiding everyone.

mwmwmw wrote:

i'm in the underground power generating part of the city where a bunch of rough and tumble biker gnomes live.

you have to battle one in an arm wrestling / drinking contest to unlock the "bike gang" transportation type that will let let you cross the previously inaccessible wasteland area.


Time to make a contested strength or contested constitution roll.
Unless it's a video game, then I hope you have the fortitude to mash that button.
They don't exactly play clean down here.

BarristerPlong wrote:

This is so evocative of the 90s era side scrolling beat em up games. Tough burly dudes battling endless hordes of flunkies.
Great work!


They never stood a chance, except that one guy, who totally does and it's incredibly unfair. He's not in this song fortunately.

- Spider

I LIKE IT ROUGH

lol

Were the chord progressions part of the mistake?  They are terrific.

Nice work, the chip does a really nice melodic solo on this, almost a vocal style

ROCK

hell yeah!
eveything may not have been intended, but i didn't hear anything that felt off.
just 100% ROUGH POWER (and cool birbs)

i too am a fan of da chord progresshoone.  Those extra bendy ones that give it that extra oomph and also when it takes a heroic turn.  Like you're parrying off the bad guy and sparks are flying everywhere.

+1 to BarristerPlong, definitely getting beat-em-up vibes. I feel like you changed feel/sections at just the right times to keep the energy level going. Sounds great!

orangedrink wrote:

I LIKE IT ROUGH

lol


I mean, talk to Frank about that.

orangedrink wrote:


Were the chord progressions part of the mistake?  They are terrific.

Nice work, the chip does a really nice melodic solo on this, almost a vocal style

ROCK


They were not, that's just our innate awesomeness. It's actually two chip sounds, one to give it that extra punch.
The mistakes are mostly guitar-based.

jwh wrote:

hell yeah!
everything may not have been intended, but I didn't hear anything that felt off.
just 100% ROUGH POWER (and cool birbs)


It's one of those things that if you know, you know, and if you don't, you buy the band shirts and albums.

Tone Matrix wrote:

i too am a fan of da chord progresshoone.  Those extra bendy ones that give it that extra oomph and also when it takes a heroic turn.  Like you're parrying off the bad guy and sparks are flying everywhere.


Man's never seen it coming, skipping three form with this progression.

Cursory wrote:

+1 to BarristerPlong, definitely getting beat-em-up vibes. I feel like you changed feel/sections at just the right times to keep the energy level going. Sounds great!


Some may question our arrangements, and doubt our transitions. They may be right, but if it's got the power, I don't care.


- Devieus

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