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Last weekly track of 2015.  This one began with a little arpeggio in my mind, and it runs throughout the piece.  Initially I heard it against something a lot faster and drum-breaky, but for tracking I went with something slower, and that ended up feeling more right.  I tracked a few lines of guitar that worked well together (the two themes, some ornamentation, and a chordal part) and then set everything aside for the rest of the week until Saturday, when I tracked more guitar parts (wah + fuzz, some clean), bass, and a few variations on drums and keys. 

The drum line is Impulse with single hit samples of a kit hit with brushes (except for the crash and toms), going through the Saturator (tweaked Hot Tubes preset).  Electric and Operator are the piano and organ instruments, with four channels of guitar (Res-O-Glas, some direct into the A/D, some through Vox wah, and some through Reuss RF-01).  Most guitar channels got a pass through the Auto-Filter with pronounced drive, and bass was the trusty Epiphone, dry. 

The title comes from the feeling of forward progress--this piece seems slow, but inexorable, and I expect to keep doing these weekly tracks in one place (here?) or another (if weeklybeats.com comes back) starting this week for 2016.

Final stats: 54 tracks (weeks 25 and 33 had alternate versions), five hours and thirteen minutes of music.  Shortest: Week 38 (Cascade) at 4:07; longest: week 25 (Sustain, Long Version) at 15:56.  720MB in 320kbps MP3 form, and a working directory over 10GB (though I have FLAC-encoded some of the final mixes). 


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