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2022-1

By thawkins on January 9, 2022 12:18 pm

Hello everyone!

For this year I have an idea to do a special kind of weeklybeats project. The vision is to make the 52 tracks over the course of the year, in a way that each track is 16 4/4 bars at 120bpm, totaling 2:08 in length (excluding reverb/effects tails). Moreover, each subsequent track should be able to fade in at halfway through the previous one (roughly at 1:04).

At the successful end of the year I hope to have: 1) a continuously changing mixtape track composed of all the 52 individual weekly tracks totaling 56:32, 2) an "album" of short tracks clocking in at 110:56 (hey, that's almost 111 minutes!), all in one big Live project.

I decided to take a shot at this, because I wanted to force myself to make shorter tracks with better mixing, and also to combat the massive increase of project files due to "weekly" music stuff.

Let's see how it goes!

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Soothing sounds here. & Intriguing concept – in a way you’ll have a “yearly mega beat” after completion.

Smooth and meditative. I like the sounds you use here, especially this deep low sitar like sound.

I like your plan for 2022. This is a very soothing start of it.

trumbuthegn wrote:

Soothing sounds here. & Intriguing concept – in a way you’ll have a “yearly mega beat” after completion.

Thanks. Yeah something like it is the plan at least. Plans have a way of changing over time, though. smile


Kedbreak136 wrote:

Smooth and meditative. I like the sounds you use here, especially this deep low sitar like sound.

Thanks. Glad you like it. smile


Q-Rosh wrote:

I like your plan for 2022. This is a very soothing start of it.

Thanks. I kind of wanted to have an ambient thing more than something that is beat oriented. Maybe this will change as I move on.

Interesting ambition, it'll be a while to hear the whole thing, but I bet it'll be worth it

I can’t wait to hear the global pattern. It starts nicely!!

Devieus wrote:

Interesting ambition, it'll be a while to hear the whole thing, but I bet it'll be worth it

Monostate wrote:

I can’t wait to hear the global pattern. It starts nicely!!

Thanks, I can't wait either. smile

Great start, excited to hear where it goes. 

Sounds like an interlude from an Opeth album

Really cool plan for the WB_year and a good start as well.  Very peaceful and meditative piece. 

PantherMountain wrote:

Great start, excited to hear where it goes. 

Sounds like an interlude from an Opeth album

Tone Matrix wrote:

Really cool plan for the WB_year and a good start as well.  Very peaceful and meditative piece.

Thanks!

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