I figured out how to make something like NES dialogue sounds, and I spent a while trying to fit it into a song, but it just wouldn’t go. So, to assuage the part of my brain that was really into it, I’m posting it here.

Assumptions about house occupants

Finally generated some low end for Flooding. Here's a sample, though I don't know if it will end up like this.

Here is Landing. Parts of it were originally made for a client, but they found it to be too intense for their needs. Since it no longer needs to be a chill podcast intro, I have added a couple of middle sections and made it a touch more intense.

I tried it out, and I think strings and drum kit can work together.

This is Eighth Gear, for which I brought back my robots. This time, I directed them to change keys every four bars for a total of eleven key changes per this Junto challenge. This time, there's two guitar parts and bass, along with a concrete theme that I had them come back to instead letting things be all random choices within patterns.

A live look at what’s in Alfred’s Basic Piano Library Lesson Book Level 1B. Also: the true Frere Jacques.

This is The Uneven Staircase, which I did for the Disquiet Junto challenge #567. It requires you to write a piece that uses 5/8, 6/8, and 7/8 time. I did that by writing a riff that has a 5, 6, and a 7 part glued together so that it has a total of 18 eighth notes worth of time. So, the drums just play in 3/4 most of the time (9 quarter notes or 18 eighth notes can fit in three bars of 3/4.)

I also did the Spinal Tap Big Bottom thing where I just have all basses and no guitars. (I tried way too hard to wring out a guitar part last night because I forgot a lesson which otherwise saves me a lot of time: I can't come up with riffs on the spot by jamming. I can come up with stuff on the spot by sequencing sometimes, though.)

The whole thing ended up too normal so I have a section in which some of the parts change tempo, but some don't.

There's a lot I wish was better here, but I still find the ending funny.

The classic sounds of Lego sifting

I started working on metal riffs again. The problem is, you have to come up with more than one.