The semi-coherent ramblings of a music tech student desperate for acclaim in the real world.
Here’s the second one I’ve done!
It’s an ambient idea, messing around with layers like I usually do, except I’m usually a lot more precise than this, obviously…
Had a lot of problem with tuning which set me back about 5 minutes, annoyingly, but ah well. Here’s the result.
Oh cock. I can only upload one audio file a day to Tumblr.
Well that’s fucked that one, hasn’t it.
Thanks Tumblr, you gigantic hipster-filled wanker.
Todays project is to try and get some songs started from scratch, and mess with them for 20 minutes then stop. So throughout today, I’ll be uploading various song ideas I wrote and recorded in 20 minutes.
Here’s the first.
It’s a metal riff I had for a while with some really obvious chords. It wrote itself, to be honest, there’s nothing really original about it, annoyingly. I wanted to put a higher harmony on the guitar for the 7/8 section but ran out of time.
So yeah. I went back to basics and did a song where the aim was to use the 4 basic guitar chords and just acoustic and vocals, and this is what I came up with.
SITATUNGA!
Ok, bear with me. It’s weird, I know.
I went to the Natural History Museum in London a few months ago with my woman, and thought it was really cool.
I also happened to watch a Bobby Mcferrin thing a couple of days prior. When I was there I was an animal that was kind of like a deer of something called a Sitatunga, and for some reason, this entire thing just popped into my head.
I’ve been singing it in my head since and I thought it was about time I recorded it, just for a larf.
So here it is. Mostly for Sophie, but also for anyone else who wants to laugh at my feeble attempt at tribal music.
Bone Appetit!
(It’s funny, because it was a skeleton of the animal…)
So yeah.
Those who talk to me in real life will know about my long standing negative feelings towards my job. I won’t repeat the rant for the millionth time, but recently, I decided I’d had enough and took some steps to see what would happen if I left.
It won’t affect my degree in any way, other than the fact that I won’t have a placement year on it, but I can still use it on my CV and the stuff I learned in the first few months will prove extremely useful to me, I expect.
It is, therefore, with very little regret than I announce than I have parted ways with Elevator studios.
Hopefully this will mean I’ll have more time to concentrate on personal projects such as dailyjams, my album that is in the works, and my work for next year (My project has just been accepted!)
I will also be able to see my friends more too, which is in no small way, a good reason for me to have left.
Freedom is sweet. And make sweeter by the fact that I’m listening to the new Dragonforce album and feeling downright triumphant.
Here’s a song I rushed out today from guilt, stemming from the fact that I’ve not written since the end of march…
Really proud of this song, because I had to really work to get it written. It’s alright, though, Give it a listen :D
Quick mess around with some synths in a house style, because I really need some practice at this kind of thing…
I know it clips. I know the lyrics are a little lame. But if you don’t play air guitar during this song, then fuck you.
Pleh - 19th March 2012
A not-so-good exploration of an idea I had a couple of days ago. Just wanted to see what I could do with the drum riff. It probably has other potential, but this idea turned out pretty limp.
