disquiet0298 dungeons drumbeat by NorthWoods

I rolled a 6 (melody) and 4 (rhythm)! I had a grand piano playing the melody but that sounded kind of boring, so I added some drums (sampled from the intro to "Living After Midnight" by Judas Priest).

Still sort of boring so I thought to put on some guitar, but to make it more interesting I tuned it to the notes in my randomly-drawn melody (ABCD) and put pink stickers on the notes in that four-note scale (see the picture). Chance the Dog came in for the final mastering process :) .

Then to make things a bit more odd sounding I did a bunch of cut and paste with the notes in the melody and drum track, just to thicken things up a bit, and overlaid some alternately rhythmic and soothing guitar.

Up next, some lead guitar, a Floyd Rose Discovery guitar through a Fuzz Factory into a Smokey cigarette-pack amp, close miked with some delay added in the DAW (Ableton live).

and on the outro, went to half-speed, and overdubbed a little mandolin. (Idea given to me a while ago by my 13 y.o. daughter--mix in some unexpected sounds)

All the above were created as clips in Ableton Live and then triggered from Push for the initial recording, then lightly edited, with compression, eq and a little reverb here and there.

More on this 298th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Dungeons & Drum Machines: Make a track with two rolls of a 20-sided die — at:

https://disquiet.com/0298/

Major thanks to Jason Wehmhoener for initiating this project, and for co-plotting it.

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