Tuesday, August 13, 2013

jamming

I thought of something that could be a really interesting idea.  To this point I have mostly been writing songs that are fairly structured and will typically challenge my ability as a musician.  This means that there may be key changes or the tempo will be physically difficult to reach or the notes are positioned in a way to be out of my typical comfort zone.  But since I've been recording, I have not tried the very obvious idea of slowing down my songs a bit.

You're probably thinking (I am at least), what part of this isn't supposed to be insulting?  Well, I have not tried this so I don't know how things are going to turn out.  Without too much difficulty I could record a simple loop.  That loop I could play back in my headphones and just record me improvising over it.  Variations in simple loops could be difficult eventually, but since I haven't recorded any, this could be an interesting starting point for some new music.

I don't plan to have any updates anytime soon because this is just an idea.  I'm not even sure how much I like the idea.  But improvising and recording it is something I haven't tried yet.  Could be worth spending a little bit of time trying.  Now I need to figure out how to just "create" simple loops to play over.

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