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Prismatic Jungle

By dreat on January 24, 2026 11:42 pm

This week was supposed to continue with vocals, but life happened. I got way too busy to finish something with lyrics and vocals, so another instrumental in a bag.
At least I tried something new - I watched a yt video about improvising/jamming on a guitar. While I did not touch guitar for it, I used some of the examples/ideas from it to exclusively write melody for this. I never wrote melody like this and it's been way more fun.

Also 9/8 is surprisingly pleasant to work with.

(title inspired by Septerra Core, my wife's fav game)

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It's nice to follow explorations of lesser used time signatures! The second riff is kinda... pirate-y? haha made me think of this https://youtu.be/JUMNS3s6F6M?list=PLRnwItmM9-WEbcGlPaYZN_RJ98T8q_Bd3, even though that's completely unrelated, for some reason XD

I like the song!

odd rhythms gang yay
and straight groove gang yay
nice videogamey choirs and laser pew pew sounds

interesting process about improvising and jamming melodies big_smile nice to hear that it was fun. to me it's the go-to method, I have the opposite situation: I should probably spend more time composing for real without just jamming all the time tbh.

This is lots of fun and has great upbeat energy.  Sometimes odd rhythms seem to really stand out to me in their oddness, but this sounds perfectly natural to me and doesn't call undue attention to itself.

I love the warm sounds and chord progressions. The melody is lovely, and the whole thing works so well I never noticed the odd time signature!

Pretty cool piece. Vocals can wait for this.
- Valx

I have to hand it to people who experiment with different time signatures.   Other than a few 3/4 waltzes I'm a 4/4 guy through and through.   This is very good

Like the guitar lead against the shimmering organ background. As it happens, for W5 I also worked in 9/8, and yeah, it creates an interesting ebb and flow!

Nitpick: let that delay decay in peace, don't cut the track short.

XC3N wrote:

It's nice to follow explorations of lesser used time signatures! The second riff is kinda... pirate-y? haha made me think of this https://youtu.be/JUMNS3s6F6M?list=PLRnwItmM9-WEbcGlPaYZN_RJ98T8q_Bd3, even though that's completely unrelated, for some reason XD

I like the song!


Thank you! And that sound you got reminded of is a big badge of honor for me heart

horatiuromantic wrote:

odd rhythms gang yay
and straight groove gang yay
nice videogamey choirs and laser pew pew sounds

interesting process about improvising and jamming melodies big_smile nice to hear that it was fun. to me it's the go-to method, I have the opposite situation: I should probably spend more time composing for real without just jamming all the time tbh.


Haha big_smile we all have our own backgrounds and biases. I grew up in a garage band and making dark ambient. I'm okay rhythmically and with pads/textures, but "songwriting", jamming melodies etc is foreign concept for me. Thanks!



Cosmic Cairns wrote:

This is lots of fun and has great upbeat energy.  Sometimes odd rhythms seem to really stand out to me in their oddness, but this sounds perfectly natural to me and doesn't call undue attention to itself.


Thanks! My unofficial goals is to try make all those odd rhythms sounds as smooth as possible. While I think there's a place for a jagged, start/stop beats, making then sounds "smooth" without doing some "common tricks" is a nice challenge.


MRDRCAT wrote:

I love the warm sounds and chord progressions. The melody is lovely, and the whole thing works so well I never noticed the odd time signature!


Thanks! I'm still pretty... "uneducated" when it comes to chords/chord progressions and melodies, so this tells me I'm progressing big_smile and, not noticing odd time signature is my unofficial goal, so super happy that I managed to get it flowing heart


DESLRV wrote:

Pretty cool piece. Vocals can wait for this.
- Valx


Thank you. And thank you heart



Disposable Planet wrote:

I have to hand it to people who experiment with different time signatures.   Other than a few 3/4 waltzes I'm a 4/4 guy through and through.   This is very good


I guess this is a bit my interest in some prog rock/prog metal and some more "weird" music. I did record drums in 7/4 as a session drummer and when jamming with friends sometimes will try something weird (they love me for that lol).
So I decided to make a full exploration of odd meters with WB. I'd say 9/8 and 5/4 are pretty good places to start if you decide to give it a go (especially 5/4, start with doubling 3rd or 4th beat on drums and go from there)



RPLKTR wrote:

Like the guitar lead against the shimmering organ background. As it happens, for W5 I also worked in 9/8, and yeah, it creates an interesting ebb and flow!

Nitpick: let that delay decay in peace, don't cut the track short.


Thank you! And now every time I render track I listen carefully about sounds. That's a great tip, big thanks heart

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