Return of Bobby's Back
By Sorkfot on May 12, 2024 10:06 pm
Two years ago, WB22 week 16 I wrote the tune Bobby's Back and here's what I wrote then:
"Bobby's a migrating bird (Haematopus ostralegus) that always lives in our backyard in April/May, then he spends the summer at the beach with his friends.
Welcome back, Bobby!"
This was one of my favourite tunes from that year. It implements a division of the bar into 5+5+6, which I found to be a very groovy way of playing in 4/4. I wish I had spent more than one sitting on this tune, as I think it could have progressed further. In the B part, I extended the rhythmic idea and made it 5+5+5+5+6+6 for all you math rockers out there.
Fun ornithological sidenote is that Bobby returned 3 weeks later this year.
Stuff used:
Mandolin
Casio DM-100 piano (I used this because I thought my mandolin sounded like the casio piano, and that's why the first note of the melody is doubled with the casio piano, to confuse you.)
Casio DM-100 flute for those squiggly arpeggios
BBCSO glockenspiel
Acoustic guitar
Electric guitar
Electric bass
AKAI SG01v (analog lead)
Drum samples
Shaker
Bird sounds made with "Ocarina, Clay cockoo and a whistle that you partially fill with water to get bird sounds." Just like that description of the bird sounds, I copy and pasted some tracks from the WB22 project and rearranged some of the sounds, but they are basically the same.
I would have made new clay bird sounds, had I not started too late on sunday evening.
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