Tag: music
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Jamuary 16, 2021 – Dissonance – Dissonant Variations
This one wasn’t easy mainly because it required a lot of study on my part. I’ll confess that I didn’t really know what a dissonant chord was before starting. I knew, but I wouldn’t be able to tell anybody what they were or give examples other than to tell them, “It sounds weird, not like…
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Jamuary 15, 2021 – Instrumental – Guitar Solo
Friday night and things are pretty chill. Had a few beers yesterday while making the arpeggiate track and listening to NIN so don’t feel like repeating that performance today. It’s also end of week and I can’t hide that I’m feeling a bit drained. Early mornings and a job that is a bit repetitive can…
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Jamuary 13, 2021 – Phygrian – A sound from the past
Would you consider marble to be a type of a harddrive? What about an old mp3 player? Well, in one way, it is. And that’s where today’s challenge is derived from. Today’s challenge was completed by assembling two separate marble inscriptions from Ancient Greece. Why Ancient Greece? Because of the Phrygian mode, which is what…
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Jamuary 12, 2021 – Pachebel’s Canon – World Instruments
This one was fun. Today’s challenge was “Pachebel’s Canon”. You more than likely know the song as it’s played at just about every wedding these days, or least a good number of them. So, the obvious question to this version would be: what would be different? As you can tell, I took some leeway with…
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Jamuary 11, 2021 – Hand Claps
This one was supposed to be easy and, to an extent, it was. However, There were many times I tried overcomplicating what should’ve been a straight ahead track. Today’s challenge was to utilize only claps and clapping, which seemed simple enough given my percussion background. Not only that, but I’ve toyed around with these sounds…