Purge
By ViridianLoom on August 21, 2022 11:01 pm
This is one of those types of tracks where I picked up the guitar for a first time in a while to try to write a guitar centric tune and I came up with lots and lots of ideas, but I feel like 70% of the ideas here are uninspired (prog go brr). That, or I couldn't seem to contextualize them correctly. So it's kind of become a "purge" track where I just try to smash all these ideas together to get them out of my system to hopefully make room for better stuff on a future track.
I initially wanted to try to do some synth parts that match up to the guitar riffs and add some interesting texture but I spent way too long just going through all these random ideas I came up with (there's actually 8 additional riffs that I didn't include here, clearly just got out of hand) I was labeling the riffs, figuring out their time signatures, trying to come up with drum and bass parts for them so I could get the full vibe of the riff to decide if it was worth including or not. All together, there was way too much trial and error and it was not all that fun. Also as a result, there wasn't a whole lot of time left over to try to come up with some melodies that might have salvaged everything, so it is what it is. At this point. Like I said, sometimes you just got to purge yourself of all the shitty ideas to make room for good music again.
Anyways, this week I played that game Cult of the Lamb and beat it. Really fun little game, pretty damn good soundtrack too. Would love to learn how to do some of those skipping voices for a future track.
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