Weeklybeats is a 52 week long music project in which artists compose and publicly release 1 song a week for the entire year.
Starting January 1st 2024 GMT each participant will have one week to upload one finished composition. Any style of music or selection of instruments are welcomed and encouraged. Sign up or Login to get started or check our FAQ for any help or questions you may have.

Indulgence

By Kedbreak136 on February 18, 2024 12:20 am

And now, for something completely different...

I craved playing some live jam guitar. On Tuesday night, I went to see Queen play in Tokyo, and it was quite a fantastic experience. Brian May proceeded to play a long solo that was very inspiring, and I just could not help wanting to get back into playing some live guitar. This is also in many ways inspired by the wonderful tracks that QRosh has been delighting us with over the years. He's a master of sound design and guitar layering. My track is not to that level, but it captured the feel i had at the moment. It also takes me back to the type of music I used to play in a band about 20 years ago, where we'd do these super indulgent long instrumental jams around exotic scales.

So here you go, some indulgent live guitar jam. One take, cut in a few places, mixed with some drums, with GrossBeat applied here and there (as a french speaker, this VST name never fails me to suspect the maker is french too, with a kindergarten sense of humor). Also seagulls! Back from 2022 where they made a few appearances. And some whale sounds for the form, coupled with the ocean.

Awesome jam, the drums are slick, love the glitchy stutter effects. Nice choice with the seagulls!

Dig the exotic scales on the guitar and the seagull sound effects are very tastefully applied.  A nice sonic journey for sure.

Takes me away.

Our only escape out of this temple is to water, and I can hear it.

So good

Grosse Bite!!!

J'aime comment tu as édité la guitare. Les mouettes avec les vagues c'est une belle touche.

Queen live j'imagine que c'était une bonne claque... Brian May est une légende. Crank those AC30 amps and go for it!

there's not enough guitar on Weekly Beats so I'm always glad to stumble upon some! good effort, I particularly like the build between 1:59 - 2:18. Some post rock vibes there!

I'd put the drums louder and add a bass line groove, and you'd have a full track!

Dang you've been seeing some sweet bands lately!  It's been ages since I've been to a live show.  Love how the guitar sounds.  Like you parked your car at the beach as a storm rode in.  Jumped onto the roof and in Slash-silhouette form epic soloed it.  The birds and waves are a nice touch to seal in that vibe.  Well done!

dear Kedbreak, what a nice surprise. You deliver very lovely exotic guitartones. You make me feel like I am having a heatstroke at the Egyptian see with the pyramids flying around my head.  Cool you made it glitchy too. It is a shame you waited so long :(to come back to your roots. I hope for more. Thank you very much for your friendly credits, too. I feel honored to be noticed in the context of this great track.

Really dug this and the guitar had a great tone.  Some cool glitchy mangling on the mix too.  Happily hear more of this!

What an alluring jam! Love the soundscape you've created here.

Amazing! LOVE it! Cool playing, very down to earth and mindful of the sound and general vibe. It's much more than an indulgent guitar jam. It has the narrative elements so characteristic of your style, but the guitar makes it feel much more alive to me smile

I like the glitch effects too. They also tell a story. It was funny to read the Q-Rosh comment, now I also envision it taking place in Egypt, and the glitches are because you're using a time machine to do some important secret mission.

It feels like the seagulls are the leading voice that the guitar follows. Maybe they are a way of communication for the people on the other side of the time machine. What a crazy story! big_smile

Hell yeah, this is awesome.  Love the guitar tone with the huge reverb and tremolo.  A very successful ode to Q-Rosh.

P.S. Excellent glitches.  I had to rewind after the first one to make sure my computer wasn't bugging out.

yup, this one love it!

I enjoyed indulging in this track! Great guitar playing and processing, sounds really good. I like the processing and glitchy edits on drums throughout. It's like soaring with those gulls over the crashing brooding waves as the mysterious sea creatures writhe below. Cool you saw Queen and were inspired!

Wow this is so good, I enjoy all your tracks, but I could certainly listen to more like this, certainly hear the Q-rosh influence but has the Kedbreak touches of glitch, exotic sounds, and great use of samples. 


this was delightful

I LOVED the guitar jam, totally psychedelic, and the editing to have it stutter and glitch sounds super sick too.

that_ranjit wrote:

Awesome jam, the drums are slick, love the glitchy stutter effects. Nice choice with the seagulls!

Cosmic Cairns wrote:

Dig the exotic scales on the guitar and the seagull sound effects are very tastefully applied.  A nice sonic journey for sure.

jbarket wrote:

Takes me away.

Our only escape out of this temple is to water, and I can hear it.

So good

djippy wrote:

Grosse Bite!!!

J'aime comment tu as édité la guitare. Les mouettes avec les vagues c'est une belle touche.

Queen live j'imagine que c'était une bonne claque... Brian May est une légende. Crank those AC30 amps and go for it!

rplktr wrote:

there's not enough guitar on Weekly Beats so I'm always glad to stumble upon some! good effort, I particularly like the build between 1:59 - 2:18. Some post rock vibes there!

I'd put the drums louder and add a bass line groove, and you'd have a full track!

Tone Matrix wrote:

Dang you've been seeing some sweet bands lately!  It's been ages since I've been to a live show.  Love how the guitar sounds.  Like you parked your car at the beach as a storm rode in.  Jumped onto the roof and in Slash-silhouette form epic soloed it.  The birds and waves are a nice touch to seal in that vibe.  Well done!

Q-Rosh wrote:

dear Kedbreak, what a nice surprise. You deliver very lovely exotic guitartones. You make me feel like I am having a heatstroke at the Egyptian see with the pyramids flying around my head.  Cool you made it glitchy too. It is a shame you waited so long :(to come back to your roots. I hope for more. Thank you very much for your friendly credits, too. I feel honored to be noticed in the context of this great track.

rdomain wrote:

Really dug this and the guitar had a great tone.  Some cool glitchy mangling on the mix too.  Happily hear more of this!

levelcapybara wrote:

What an alluring jam! Love the soundscape you've created here.

horatiuromantic wrote:

Amazing! LOVE it! Cool playing, very down to earth and mindful of the sound and general vibe. It's much more than an indulgent guitar jam. It has the narrative elements so characteristic of your style, but the guitar makes it feel much more alive to me smile

I like the glitch effects too. They also tell a story. It was funny to read the Q-Rosh comment, now I also envision it taking place in Egypt, and the glitches are because you're using a time machine to do some important secret mission.

It feels like the seagulls are the leading voice that the guitar follows. Maybe they are a way of communication for the people on the other side of the time machine. What a crazy story! big_smile

Chrisfoo wrote:

Hell yeah, this is awesome.  Love the guitar tone with the huge reverb and tremolo.  A very successful ode to Q-Rosh.

P.S. Excellent glitches.  I had to rewind after the first one to make sure my computer wasn't bugging out.

mzunguko wrote:

yup, this one love it!

miraclemiles wrote:

I enjoyed indulging in this track! Great guitar playing and processing, sounds really good. I like the processing and glitchy edits on drums throughout. It's like soaring with those gulls over the crashing brooding waves as the mysterious sea creatures writhe below. Cool you saw Queen and were inspired!

Jason Nijjer wrote:

Wow this is so good, I enjoy all your tracks, but I could certainly listen to more like this, certainly hear the Q-rosh influence but has the Kedbreak touches of glitch, exotic sounds, and great use of samples.

emily wrote:


this was delightful

ViridianLoom wrote:

I LOVED the guitar jam, totally psychedelic, and the editing to have it stutter and glitch sounds super sick too.

Thank you everyone for listening and for your nice comments. I enjoyed doing this one, as it was a very different approach than my usual tracks. I will definitely indulge more in the future in other jam psychedelic guitar driven tracks!

WAIT how did you do the edits?  manually cut?  I got a Hologram Microcosm and I hope to basically set it up to do stuff like this live.

SO TIGHT

just excitedly told Frank:

"Kedbreak is so crazy; he'll just randomly drop seagulls in a track!"

Great theme song for the world's most dangerous beach.

orangedrink wrote:

just excitedly told Frank:

"Kedbreak is so crazy; he'll just randomly drop seagulls in a track!"


When are you going to do the bird thing?

- Raioh

You need to login to leave a comment.
Login Sign-up