Le ciel n'est pas toujours bleu
By djippy on January 25, 2026 2:27 am
1 month done!!!!
11 to go. Not bad.
Trying to find some "box" - direction to go with this year Weekly beats challenge. Not sure yet about what I'll do next, but pretty happy about the work I did so far.
Did go the "mellotron" route again this week, going a bit for the same aesthetic as week 1, with nice "old school (emulation)" strings and flute, plus did load another fun 70's inspired synth...
Looped some chords at a fairly low tempo (project is set at 130 bpm, but it is 65bpm really) then improvised some drums over it on the garage...
Did crank A LOT of compression on the drums, especially snare top and it does bring up those ringy overtones (not Mettalica St-Anger yet, but I'll get there some day!!!)
Most of the composition was built using "LANDR Composer" midi chord generator. Did move around the 2 midi parts, curated fun sounds, then finished with the guitar solo.
Uploading this "early" this Saturday evening. Will go to one of my kids Judo competition tomorrow...
Today was a very beautiful day, but super cold! -25 Celcius... Did go drink a coffee with some irish inspired creme maple syrup booze on it outside. Was very nice.
Cheers!!!
Fitness related stuff now... Still disciplined enough to pull out about 7h of cardio (bike, about 3h outside and 4h inside on the trainer.) Body weight sill going down at about 89kg (196 lbs). Did a big "cheat day" with lots of good fat and salty food (too much of it) tonight as the big boy had to cut some weight for his competition and was able to make weight, so big food tonight. (Was super happy and opened some wine as well.
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Will start soon (maybe?) to do a bit more of full body strengthning stuff, did try a session this week and damn my abs are not strong... lol. Plan A is to burn fat, but I am getting there, so having a decent cardio plus being strong enough to do a couple sit ups ain't too bad of a follow up plan...
It is NOT fun, but energy is still not too bad and results are good so let's GO!!!
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