Name: Rhythm Exercise #2 by ravioli
Duration: 40 s
Description: In class, we were all given a very, very basic rhythm sheet in 3/4 - nothing more than eighth notes. We were to first tap out the rhythm - quarter note in one hand and rhythm in the other. After that, we were tasked to take this 24 bar rhythmic figure and make "a thing" out of it. This is that thing.

The assignment preceding this was one where we had to sit down at a piano, pretend we didn't know how to play piano, and play. The goal was to let ideas flow freely, not at all think about what we were doing, and just let things happen. 

Then, we were to take that piano recording and further flesh it out into... something. Whatever form you imagined your piano twinklings to take on, should it have been be able to grow and evolve.

Falling In Love (With The Memory Of You)

"Make something that is meaningful to you, something you connect with!" was the sole prompt for creating this track.

Oh When, Oh Where

Wonderful Christmastime

The assignment here was simply to make something in 12/8 :D

I don't drink, nor do I do drugs - and therefore I have no idea how this came to be. I immediately imagined making a song that tells a story of Andrew being attacked by a monkey at the zoo after he sneaks into their enclosure. We had an ongoing joke that I would use monkey noises in school assignments, so maybe I just wanted to know what our hypothetical monkey was really capable of. And the answer? Violence. He's capable of violence. 

I sent Andrew a few lines for him to record and send to me, along with asking him to scream at the top of his lungs a few times. He did a bang up job. 

Sonically, this is my favorite thing I've ever made. The mix is fun and dynamic and for once I think this idea remained really consistent from its inception to its completion. The bass is earth shattering when the second groove comes in, and all the glitch stuff came surprisingly easily and was fun to craft. This the first and only time I've used super-lydian in a way that's tasteful and fun - not to mention it's kinda criss-crosses with the style and makes for something that I find really cool.

Jurassic Hark(er)

In class, we were all given a very, very basic rhythm sheet in 3/4 - nothing more than eighth notes. We were to first tap out the rhythm - quarter note in one hand and rhythm in the other. After that, we were tasked to take this 24 bar rhythmic figure and make "a thing" out of it. This is that thing.

Rhythm Exercise #2

We were given a fun bassline, a little dotted eighth kinda thing, and as per usual, pegged to do something with it.

The whole song is technically the same BPM - I conceived the second half first, and then copied the bassline alone (copied it before what I had already done, not after it) and wanted to do something silly in the beginning. 

So I turned the first 4 notes of the bassline (the dotted eighths) into quarter notes. I then tried to swing over it, which led to this wack time signature of like, 6/4 and then 4/4 + 2 quarter note triplets. Wack. Super wack. I imagine the second half to be the intro music for an anime about myself and my peers from the Comprehensive Musicianship course.

Rhythm Exercise #2

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