Outside The Golden Bullion Casino
By orangedrink on March 29, 2020 11:02 pm
In Street Fighter II, Balrog's (the boxer) stage was at the Golden Nugget casino. To avoid copyright infringement, in Street Fighter V, they changed the name to the Golden Bullion casino.
This is another track on the Model:Cycles. Last week's track was dark, downbeat, threatening, harsh, and heavy. I basically tried to do the exact opposite: light, upbeat, friendly, calm, and jazzy. I still haven't been feeling in that great of a mood with everything going on, so there aren't multiple sections here. The Model:Cycles has a swing function, and I was trying to figure out how to program this rhythm "straight" so then I could turn the swing up to get it to where it is now. I couldn't do the triplet division calculations, so I just adjusted individual pattern timings and lengths by ear so it sounded correct. Maybe a future project will be to figure out how to do a swing song and then have it come in and out of swing. That could be wild. Is it mastered too loud?
I do want to say that I was in a really bad mood, forcing myself to write something, and guitar and drums weren't really yielding anything, and the Model:Cycles made me forget everything for a bit and have some fun. I'm trying to learn swing drumming on the actual drums, so that inspired this rhythm, which is actually something that I can't play (YET!) 
This reminded me of the SNES Vegas Stakes soundtrack, and I've been thinking about learning how to play Balrog on Street Fighter, so here we are, flat broke, smelling of stale cigarettes, necktie undone, sitting outside the Golden Bullion Casino.
[I'm probably going to do another streaming Orange Drink show next Friday! Follow me on social media for the details 
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