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Nice

By onezero on January 16, 2022 11:48 pm

Kind of a slow core thing that came together starting Friday night, and then I labored over for much of this afternoon. Guitar: home-built Res-O-Glas through Balls Effects KWB. Bass is the usual Epiphone P/J (with the usual EQ-8 low-end rolloff), and the drums are Ableton's 64 Pad Kit Jazz (with Max Humanizer). Sends: two convolution reverbs.

This happens to be the 420th weekly track I've done, so...nice. (Though maybe not as nice as last week's.)

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Sounds like I’m in a bar just listening to the band jamming. I struggle without a 4 bar repeating chord pattern and practically copying and pasting my guitar. You do it with ease! Loving the textures you create. I wonder what’s your creative process? Is it improv after improv or do you think out a pattern to play to first? Also enjoy the slight off-beat drums, adds some more chill vibes smile

very nice

Abludo wrote:

Sounds like I’m in a bar just listening to the band jamming. I struggle without a 4 bar repeating chord pattern and practically copying and pasting my guitar. You do it with ease! Loving the textures you create. I wonder what’s your creative process? Is it improv after improv or do you think out a pattern to play to first? Also enjoy the slight off-beat drums, adds some more chill vibes smile

Thank you! I tend to collage these pieces together. Just for ease of assembly, my process isn't that different from yours: I'll start with some pattern, and play enough for 4, 8, or 16 bars. (Maybe from a 12-bar pattern I'll loop the best 8, and from a 36- or 40-bar improv, I'll grab the best 16.) Then I'll play against that on other tracks in Session mode. Some obviously go together, while others are possibly compatible. When I have enough material, I'll copy it all into Arrangement mode to assemble. In a lot of cases, I get better results if I cut stuff out. Maybe I'll loop through two iterations of some part, but I'll chop a bunch of notes out of the first loop, to leave space. Or I'll have only a subset of parts playing, and introduce all tracks later. While recording, I'll listen to parts over and over again, but in arrangement, I'll try to reduce the repetition.  I don't know--does that all help?

fetalface wrote:

very nice

Thank you!

onezero wrote:
Abludo wrote:

Sounds like I’m in a bar just listening to the band jamming. I struggle without a 4 bar repeating chord pattern and practically copying and pasting my guitar. You do it with ease! Loving the textures you create. I wonder what’s your creative process? Is it improv after improv or do you think out a pattern to play to first? Also enjoy the slight off-beat drums, adds some more chill vibes smile

Thank you! I tend to collage these pieces together. Just for ease of assembly, my process isn't that different from yours: I'll start with some pattern, and play enough for 4, 8, or 16 bars. (Maybe from a 12-bar pattern I'll loop the best 8, and from a 36- or 40-bar improv, I'll grab the best 16.) Then I'll play against that on other tracks in Session mode. Some obviously go together, while others are possibly compatible. When I have enough material, I'll copy it all into Arrangement mode to assemble. In a lot of cases, I get better results if I cut stuff out. Maybe I'll loop through two iterations of some part, but I'll chop a bunch of notes out of the first loop, to leave space. Or I'll have only a subset of parts playing, and introduce all tracks later. While recording, I'll listen to parts over and over again, but in arrangement, I'll try to reduce the repetition.  I don't know--does that all help?

Thanks for the insight! That’s a very effective process, you’re clearly a very skilled guitarist! Looking forward to hearing more smile

Convolution dialed in right REALLY makes things nice and airy. I dig. Definitely slow core material!

420 brahhhh.  Congrats,thats quite a feat.  Nice chill jam this week, almost has like an early 2000s surfer rock vibe to it.

420... Damn. Congrats. Not a fan of this patch of kick drum that I find too cliky, but personal preferences here.

Nice.

This is indeed very nice and absolutely cries out for a vocal track, doesn`t it ???

really lovely guitar tone

way to go with the continuous practice - so inspiring!

The tone is very soft and relaxing.

Congratulations of the 420th week! This is epic (and not even counting the weeks where you did more than one track). And this is a nice track to mark this special day. smile

Nice...Nice

Nice.

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