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Little Waltz

This was made a long time ago, probably around 3 years ago in Summer. It was made with a boss loop station where you just record individual parts on separate track, loop them and then play around with them.

I was trying to record a separate song on the loop station everyday or so because I had a lot of time then! and no time now... This is the one of the few where I wasn't trying to do anything in particular apart from go back in time to play to how I played when I hadn't been playing guitar for long. So this is the song where I just hit play & record.

Play & Record

This was going to be made for a blog about how music, time and memory go together but it went off in a different direction and became more of a regular song.

The idea was to try and put a collection of melodies together which play at the same time and which are at different pitch ranges from each other. Then take the parts and fade between them so that the person listening could only follow one part for so long. Therefore the bigger idea was to make a song where you only have memory of a pattern for a short amount of time but you could still follow each pattern individually. So I wanted to make a song which was followable over a short time period but over a longer time period who wouldn't be able to predict what would happen next but you could still experience it. 

BUT...I didnt stick to this aim because I got distracted by reverb so I made this song instead. The song still has some other properties which came about by trying to follow the orginal idea.

By following the old idea I wanted a song where the consecutive chords share some of the same notes. Usually you have a chord with a root note, a third and a fifth. So there are 3 notes. You can still switch the order of the notes but it remains a similar sounding chord with the strongest note being the root note. If you make a new chord by taking the 3rd as the new root, then the 5th as the new 3rd and then adding in a new 5th then 2 of the notes are same as the previous chord. Turns out you can do this with 5 chords in the same scale. So the chord progression for the song is Bmin, Dmaj, F3min, Amaj and it turns out that if you add reverb then the notes that hang in the reverb are also melodic with each other. So overall the progression is a lot more melodic then usual and than if you just took random chords from a scale. So I basically just took this chord progression and split the notes of the chords over a few octaves so that they wouldnt clash and ended up messing around with the reverb.

I did have another progression that was even more melodic because this idea has some flaws so I will put that up soon.

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