Endless Blue

Kind of a funky beat under an acoustic riff I just kinda whipped up after picking one up randomly. A lot of the production is beta testing some new plugins for Pointless Audio.

Inspiration struck today, so I hammered this one out. Used only instruments from a new sound bank I got that were the cause of the inspiration.

Missed last week, got too busy with the new album. Just went with four instruments for this one and used automation and effects to create motion. The big wall'o'noise is thanks to Valhalla Supermassive and knob twiddling on it throughout the whole track. Needed to dial it back a bit at the end to keep it melodic.

Ah, this one actually started pretty early in the week and was able to steep properly. Banged out the main riff and drums into the general structure, then it was all filling in the blanks, with a little trip to "Butt Rock" territory. Most fun I've had on a weekly beat in a long time!

Fell behind on my weekly beats posting!

This one popped out of playing around with my new guitar and mic rig. Used one of my preferred reverbs (Line6 Particle Verb) on the guitars and played those parts. Built out the arrangement, filled in percussion and fingerdrums. Ended up with a sort of shoegazey sad slow track.

Literally sat down and banged out the chorus chords right away, rolled with it. Verse is a little odd, not sure if it'll survive, same with the bridge. Still with the no MIDI for instruments thing. Didn't get overly intricate with my first track back.

Finally back with some Weekly Beats! Missed the cutoff for the official site by like 2 minutes, decided to post here instead. Picked up a guitar, came up with the main riff. Built it out from there, including the addition of some mandolin!

Lacked inspiration for a few weeks there, but found it in a game I have been playing recently. Music is terrible -- too ambient and lacking any personality that fits with the gameplay. So I decided to start writing an alternate soundtrack, and this is the first track.

Feeling sick but powered through it to get this done today. This one ended up a Moby style jam. Nothing too fancy, just fun stuff. Love that Film Octaves on my Juno-G.

Took a few weeks off due to some scheduling and health stuff, but back with a bit of an oddball beat. Not convinced that the verse and chorus go all that well together, but it's what I ended up with, and figured I should just see it through. Verse beat and bass line came first, and I dig that open string hit.