My second late upload of the year! I have had ups and downs over the past nine months, but even during weeks where I experienced serious health issues, procedures and even a surgery, I was still able to get a song uploaded. So what pushed me to the brink after all of that? My daughter's birthday party. Man, I knew it was coming, but I still underestimated the time and energy it would take up. Not just on the day of the party, but leading up to it during the week. And I was just helping my wife who did most of the planning! (Yeah, she would probably tell you I didn't help that much.) Anyway, now that I have been through it, I don't think I can do Weekly Beats again as long as my daughter is of the age where she has birthday parties, because I will always have this one week where I have too much going on!

It sure didn't help that I procrastinated and failed to start the track until later in the week. And it was also a very poor choice on my part to work in an odd time signature for the first time this year. That was dumb. But it is a cool beat! It builds up in a 7/4 pattern, then there is a breakdown in 5/4 and it comes back into 7/4 until the end. Last week's track was called "Next Step" because I stumbled upon a podcast from a couple of years ago that analyzed the album In Rainbows by Radiohead. I was reminded about how much I loved the song "15 Step" and I wanted to work in an odd time signature because of it. I couldn't work up the energy to do it last week and that submission is in 4/4. So, I stupidly started down the odd time path this week. For some reason I thought I could write parts in 7/4 and 5/4 and come up with parts with 12 beats and divide them by three to create parts of four... what was I thinking? That was way too much to take on in one week and I overdid it. But in the few moments I spent on this track it was fun and I liked it.

Thank you for listening and see you next week!

Tags: electronic, week 37 2024, View by:thgirwnhoj