Challenge/instrumentation notes: the bulk of the instrumentation is a virtual instrument string quartet. So far all of our drums have been "acoustic" models, this one is "electronic" (inasmuch as you can really tell since it is after all a VI in both cases). Technically we've used a synth bass but ...

NOVEL by The Alleviators Sample info: The organ/bells/synth playing through most of the song is a multisample synth made with Iris 2 (using the spectral noise shaping procedure here: https://www.izotope.com/en/learn/sound-layering-and-sample-manipulation-in-iris-2.html) and fed midi data. The sampl...

The Alleviators <VERSE 1> A common enough question I don't know what answer you're looking for Put your own colors to the test You just can't see yourself in anyone <PRECHORUS 1> Cigarette underneath a lampost Pause to consider the fires The old district is in peril And you're straining for the sir...

The Alleviators challenge notes: Ryan Brickley (Beka's sister) is our guest vocalist coming in with harmonies at the first chorus. VERSE 1: Threads of your couch The taste of your mouth It always felt right Never was mine And you didn’t care What version of me I would wear You loved them all, yeah ...

The Alleviators will be in although from the recording perspective we have suffered a lot of overall logistical problems and a plague of last minute technical issues this week. Still a pretty good song, though, I think. Wanted to note here as well as in the lyrics; you'd be forgiven for thinking tha...

gizo wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 08, 2022 3:44 pm

Oh dear. It's Thursday morning. I'm at work. Tomorrow I am going to the beach until Monday.

So far my song is a single lyric, and a basic chord progression. In my head. Oh dear.

Hey, I've got some good news..

Grats! Enjoy that beach.

Floating In The Water The Alleviators (Narrative points: biblical story of Noah's Ark and a colony ship searching for a new habitable planet in the future) Well it’s too late now Guess we learned the hard way There’s no easy way out The rain falls down And it won’t stop for days Until the whole wor...

Checking in to confirm that The Alleviators are also on roughly the third idea, but it seems like we're set now. The second idea was a very Pink Floyd type thing that I like and might use somewhere else, but was probably going to end up too long to be wise for Nur Ein plus lyrics weren't really happ...

Deified by The Alleviators Challenge notes: Just in case anyone cares... song is in D and the palindrome is A-B-C#-D-F#-F#-D-C#-B-A - appears in the intro, between first chorus and second verse, and outro over the I chord (sometimes with harmonized thirds), during the first line of second verse ove...

Friday the 13th The Alleviators Stop Don't cross the line It's not time The stars are not aligned It's bad luck to get your Hopes up But I never been one to listen Never been too good at common sense Don't need their superstitions Cause yeah I know that fools rush in But tell you what If you ever n...

…specifically, he's using a 19 tone guitar...not this model obviously, but you'll get the idea. https://freenotemusic.com/product/freenote-gl-tribute-fallout-19-tone-guitar-in-sonic-blue/ I am VERY CROSS that they’re trying to claim that guitar is blue… 🧐 In real life, G&L's "Sonic Blue" hits at ab...

Elden Ring.

Governing Dynamics : bzzzzz. Very Deathcab. I love Deathcab. Thin out the kick drum during the chorus; the busy stuff is great for the verses, but the chorus is stadium rock time. The vocal is slightly too out front, and wanting a little more compression. Maybe bring up the band and throw a bit of ...

Governing Dynamics- Home- This is more Death Cab for Cutie than your usual Appleseed Cast. What I’m saying is this is Indie Rock Gold. This is sung in earnest, and it’s serious. Maybe too serious for a musical? There’s something that’s a little too straight about this for my tastes. The singing the...

Anyway, I hereby admit I was unnecessarily nasty in that review. Fixed now. My bad. I appreciate that, Jim, thank you. I am unlikely to abandon my fuzz pedals, that is just kind of what I like. I suspect that's just a genre bridge we aren't going to cross. As far not being able to tell if I was pla...

Jim,

Feel free to not subject yourself to my music for the remainder of Spintunes. I'm releasing us both.

Note to self, doing the first chorus in the lower octave before you doesn't really work as a build or dynamic technique, it just makes no one realize it's a chorus...

Thanks to exploratory procedures leading up to diagnosis of Crohn's disease, yearly-ish follow up procedures to assess the status of said Crohn's disease, and a hospitalization for c diff back a few years, I have literally lost track of my exact 'scope count but it's around ten at the wizened age if...

you're too right - i've got no skin in this game passing time, waiting for the sun to fall thinner air making mad folk of us all chemical burns branding us all the same raging without staving off inside shame everyone needs a way of standing tall you're too right - i've got no skin in this game pass...

Sent in my pre-apocalyptic dream pop shadow just now.

Cybronica wrote: ↑

Fri Jun 11, 2021 9:34 pm

Would anyone be willing/interested to do some guest guitar on the Mandibles shadow for this week? The rest of my band went on vacation before we could finish the track...

I could take a crack at it although it might not be until tomorrow.

Governing Dynamics - Long running times are a consistent issue with your songs, and this one is no exception. I really think this would have more impact if you'd been able to trim it judiciously. And for the record, I don't just look at the timestamp and say "Whoops, you crossed the arbitrary magic...