Was hard to catch up on the hour going forward last weekend, the mini jet lag. Finally back on track with the college units schedule thou. Unit 7 Soundcloud link is below. I had alota fun writing lines using the brass crescendo effects patch from…
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Mighty busy week running up to the gig, got pretty weird at times workin and prac the five days straight. Was feelin the force with the cabin fever frm the last two weeks so I took Fri/Sat off. The gig went good, but even thou…
1st year birthday of meself and dermot playin together will be nex wkend with the lights off mini fest in tommytown. Gig last weekend in Billy Byrnes went good, tricky without havin stage monitors but the prac paid off as we managed to get thru…
Love it when a new chord pattern comes together quickly. Was messing with a D minor line last week, thought it might make the bones of a new track but turns out it fit mightily well with the ‘Ashes’ lyrics. The most recent revisions hadn’t…
Had a run thru the new song versions with Dermot yesterday. ‘End these ways’ soundin good with drum/guitar combo, perchance this is the finally the final re-vision…(cue rolled eye balls). Dermot loves the middle 8 as he gets to play lots of syncopations, pretty nutty…
Could’nt get the chorus to sit right on the newer version of red balloon so I went back to a previous rhythm and changed the centre from D minor to its relative F Major. Has a more jazzy/swing feel now but dropping back in and…
Started on the arrangement on the Dubstep tune am making for my Brother. First electro tune I’ve written in bout two or three years. This time bout I been using alot more automation on the few vst synths. Been trickier to layout thou as it…
First practice proper with Dermot for the new year on Saturday. Most fun I’ve had playing the tunes in yonks. Apart from being a whole lot more amplified than previous sessions we tried out a few very different timings with the tracks. End these ways…
Bein a bit of a catching up week all round. No luck with Steinberg support (on my college unit four project) so I had to re-notate the score. In hindsight went OTT with the instrumentation, advice 21 all together so took while to do. Good…
