Statistical Energy
Here’s my first experiment with GarageBand. Â I added some distortion to the rhodes and some nice chorus to the guitar. Â The drum effects also added some crispness to the snare and some fullness to the kick drum. Then, I added several synth pads over top of everything to even out the sound.
11.18.08Happy and Low
Happy and Low is just a bright little jam we did at the beginning of a session a couple of weeks ago. I love playing little arpeggiated chord structures on the bass sometimes to warm up. I think I’d actually used the basic chord structure in a song years ago but it’s long been forgotten so it works to approach it from a fresh point of view again. Suddenly the other guys jumped in and the next thing I knew, we were off.
Along the lines of Austin and Slow Like Fish, this song is another happy ditty to listen to on a cold Tuesday morning.
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Ask Me Later
Our instrumental pieces tend to be some pretty epic journeys sometimes. Usually, one of us just starts playing something, the others join in and then we mutate bit-by-bit until we find ourselves in a totally different feel or progression. This is one of those situations.
I think the primary aspect of this kind of song is just listening to each other closely and playing off each other’s slight changes. I guess this is what people often refer to as “chemistry”.
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