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Strictly MPC´ing with this one.

Thank you for listening and have a nice week

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i had no time this week, too busy with PhD work. here is some piano noodling i recorded in one take.

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Aims this week

Things I tried to do differently to usual:

Modulate keys multiple times under a stable repeating riff (tick)Just use one instrument (oops)

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Process notes on my blog, as usual.

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Was sick this week, so make this quick before it got worse.

It's nothing enormous, but we really need to dial back complexity, stick to the easy stuff that works.

- Spider

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Another sparse one this week.  This is mostly m8, but decided to hook up my guitar to add a bit to the arrangement. Gotta represent the guitar gang.  Still in the process of moving and will probably be busting my ass to get everything into the new place this weekend.  So, I wanted to try to get something up now before deadline.  I may come back to edit this if my studio space is up and running by Sunday, but if not, I will have to let this one stand.

Wrote this on guitar on Monday and then spent way to long sitting in bed last night on my DirtyWave m8 arrange the synths and drums.  Added some basic rhythm guitar, and this is where we stand for now. 

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I can never really get a song done unless I just completely turn my brain off. Or if I force myself to make a song. But forcing myself to work always turns up lackluster results.

I didn't notice until like halfway into making this that it sounded a lot like "Eighteen Years", the song I made last week. Oh well... maybe next week I'll just do a chill lofi jam again.

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He rules the land of the blue.

Tempo: 144

Time Signature: 4/4

Key signature not included because I didn't really try to stick with specific keys/scales this time.

Made using 1x LSDJ. Video made using GB-Presenter.

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The testimony of this Dr. Horvath dude went viral among my peer group last week. I don't like being too boxed in by generational stereotypes, but I'm an elder millenial with a young kid and my immediate reaction was "like, man, why do you have to throw kids under the bus like that?" Maybe there's something to it, maybe not. Two things I'm confident of are 1) every generation tends to say that young people these days are somehow under-performing, and 2) a scientists or researcher who broadcasts this kind of alarming news to the public is usually trying to make themselves famous above any other motive they may have. So as a little ritual to bleach my brain, I edited Dr. Horvath's statement into words of positive affirmation about Gen Z and made a little jam out of it. This was all done in Bitwig with some of my usual favs: Lush 2 for chords, Basimulus Iteritas for kick, Tekno for drums, and SketchCassette for compression and warmth.

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Getting in early this week as I'm away, so finished off the most complete idea I had floating around!

My Wife often says I only write sad, depressing songs, so here is proof to the contrary! 1/18 songs being happy seems a fair ratio I'd say...

Guitar was tuned FADGBe - again, just trying something slightly different to switch things up and think outside of easy mode.

Vocals have been heavily processed - I wanted an overtly tuned, almost robotic kind of sound to it. I quite like it, but it won't be to everyone's taste. Also continuing to experiment with harmonies and other vocal techniques.

Lyrics are oddly spaced... In a way, I feel like they are missing something in some places, but this is what I ended up with! Enjoy! Thanks again for listening.

our usual programming of Sad-Mopey-Emo-Jangle will return next week.

Lyrics:

The streetlights hum a quiet tune

Casting shadows on the moon

Your voice echoes in the breeze

I count the stars like distant friends

The road curves but never ends

Every step is you and me

[Chorus]

Streetlights talk when the world goes still

They whisper dreams

They bend my will

Flickering truths

They keep me near

Even when you're far from here

[Verse 2]

The pavement cracks

A map of time

Each break a story

Each line a rhyme

I hear you laugh as you leave

The clouds roll by

A restless tide

They carry words I never tried

To send

Streetlights talk when the world goes still

They whisper dreams

They bend my will

Flickering truths

They keep me near

Even when you're far from here

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