If you like the idea of hearing a collection in order and all (you can always skip next), there's a player here
Also, if you want to see the collection of sketches used in the player, which most is cropped away, you can click here.
Yay for the pentatonic! This is 100% a bass track recorded with a loop titled "Bourbon#... something. Then piano, flute and drums. Like all these tracks, there are things not perfect, but, this is kinda like a jam led by the bass player? Also, nothing "Bop" about it.
This was a quick chord progression, lousy recording... just to give it a hear. Anyway, rather than record it properly, I just looped it and buried in the mix. I think FZ called the 2-5 thing Carlos Santana's "magic chord progression", or like that. The track shows my percussive approach to everything I play, even the flute.
This was at least an intentional chord progression, with different parts and all. Even recorded with the help of a metronome maybe. It's full of emotional expression, sadness, longing, ennui... is triste, say.
I have no idea why I named this this. Something to do with setting up the studio, seeing what I can do with what's here, probably. Anyway, after the previous track, this vibe is good.
Well, the title says it well. I just got obsessed with this chord progression... someone said it sounds like a movie soundtrack. Fair enough.
I picked up this wooden flute at a thrift shop. It was made in India, it would seem. It also seemed to be tuned to this key, so I made a thing in that key. Anyway, it wasn't in tune, so I tried to alter it.
Most of these "sketches" were tests of various bits of equipment and software as I try to streamline the workflow and find efficiencies... WTF? I'm dropping language here I don't use. Anyway, I did notice tuning the flute with the deep flanger effect on the guitar was weird.
The band was definitely drunk. But exuberant!
Now, I must have been thinking of Tom Waits' song while improvising this one.
"Session" is the default name in an export option. The name stuck.
What's in a name anyway? This one is short, as a sort of transition to the rest.
One day I tried to see if my penmanship was any better, or worse, when using my non-doinant left hand. The penmanship wasn't any better and was difficult to read.
Uhm... don't ask.
Piano things. Probably best to say, "it's short".
The zither, perhaps, or "lap harp", or lyre[?]... and a recorder. I couldn't play loudly enough for the instrument (or my skill), and I may have beendrinking. Then again, the Sybarites were always drunk I suppose.
Well, I finally got an instrument that works like a piano. This is the first use of it by me. It wanders.
Piano things. Again, it's Probably best to say, "it's short".
It has all the things, but for a snare maybe? The first product in the new bedroom studio. Actually, recorded in the bathroom, this.
My son, Hunter, was excited to get this guitar FX thing, wanted to show it to me, so brought it along on a visit. In Astoria, dipping out of the rain into a pawn shop, he spies the SAME pedal in the case. I bought it. This is the looping test. I like the shredding and crunch guitar loops.
Proof of Concept. Basically, the software crashed and the levels were maxxed. It was pretty interesting before I tamped the amplitude afterward.
I can stick a thumb drive into the keyboard and just record my wanderings. Like this one. Then I can try to play along. Like this. Apologies to The Who; I don't mean anything in partucular by this sketchy bit.
Another loop, more sloppiness.
So, they say Nero "fiddled" while Rome burned. I've also heard it said that there were'nt "fiddles" in ancient Rome, so he probably played something more like a zither. This one, the "3rd Man Junior Zither", was manufactured in New York City last century. You can set this one to loop and just lose your mind, or your country, or whatever Nero was up to.