Noise Endeavor
By ViridianLoom on July 19, 2020 11:45 pm
A trend I've noticed over the past 28 weeks of writing has been that I'm often overly critical of songs that I either end up liking a lot weeks later OR maybe I just don't think it's as bad as I thought it was. So I'm trying to just let these things breath, let time tell whether the song was any good or a pile of shit. I get hung up on trying to write "good" songs every week and my weekends are often upsetting because I think the song is crap all the way up until submission time. Unless its one of those instances where I feel like I was on the ball that week, but then all following weeks feel even more pressured to outdo myself.
Anyways, about the song.
This last week I restrung my bass (way overdue, I have a bad habit of not changing strings regularly on any instrument), fixed the action on the low string because it was rattling against the 1st fret and then noodled a lot while I worked. I manage a lot of reporting at my job so sometimes I have downtime waiting for reports to generate. So my interest was with the bass this week. Additionally, I've been watching a lot of Adam Neely videos and I saw a Q&A where someone asked how he got tones for synth bass. Adam went on to explain it was a combination of gated fuzz and octave pedals. I figured I'd give that a shot in Bias Fx. I failed at generating any kind of synthy tone BUT I was kind of having fun with the fuzz pedal so I rolled with it. I'm going to continue to experiment with trying to get a synth bass sound though.
So that's the basis behind the why and how the song was written. I need to sit down and analyze music more often, sometimes I find myself struggling to come up with interesting and complimentary ideas on other instruments without just mimicking what another is doing. I often go into this things without even knowing what key the music is in. I often just recall guitar chords and scale shapes from my memory and whisk them around on the fretboard and see what happens. It's a fun and interesting way to come up with really odd structures but then its like you just drove off into the desert with a blindfold and now you have no idea where you are when you take off the blindfold and start looking around.
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