Backstory
- I SKIPPED A WEEK! Whoops, but I’m back!! Work has been quite intense recently and I’ve just been getting home exhausted. But I got really sick this week so I can write again lol! Been bed bound for the past few days and finally had some time! Alright enough of personal present life. It’s all about the past for this one! Clogged Up started with a Drummer on GarageBand, I wanted to do it as a challenge to see what I could come up with if I was given a completely random drum beat to start. If I’m not mistaken it was like the 2nd or 3rd beat I heard (you can randomize it and get new beats). So I used that and got to writing!
Music
- Drums: As stated above I used a Drummer (Kyle specifically), and once I heard his beat and how he accented the “And” of the 2nd and 3rd beats I found the song.
- Bass: Liverpool (Obviously). I know the guitar is the first thing you hear but the bass was actually the first thing I wrote. You can hear that the guitar is playing the same thing, mainly because I remember having the bass done and it not feeling right, like something was still missing (not because it was by itself with the drums lol).
- Guitars:
- For once I didn’t use Hard Rock guitar lol! I actually used Rock Roots. After I copied the bass riff to the track and had it loop it felt way too repetitive especially because the chorus does the same riff. So I decided to experiment and pushed that next section up a half step to give it a different sound. AND BOY DID IT WORK!! I made the walk down back into the original key with this track. This guitar does the same riff as the verses in the choruses, but it has a cool little skipping sound in the bridge (I’ll get to that in a sec).
- Acoustic: This sound is only in the choruses playing F#m, A, Bm, and C# (have fun figuring that out), and when it ends each phrase this guitar drops out.
- Organ: Classic Rock Organ. I used this one to fill out the choruses and had the high single notes really drive in the walk downs and key changes. The choruses are cool because while everything else is hitting those really syncopated notes the organ is pretty much playing straight against them. (I love motifs and riffs that all clash intentionally, it’s such a great sound to me!).
- Bridge:
- This only consists of bass, drums (from scratch), and the Roots Rock guitar. I started it with the bass and it’s long held notes, got the guitar to do a walk around, I’ll call it that, and added the drums right after. But what’s really cool are all the effects I put on top of the instruments. There’s a delay from the DJ effects (in the second picture) that is on during the entirety of the bridge. But the best part of the entire song, in my opinion, is what is in the “Dreamy” audio track. It’s only used in that bridge, and it’s…..drum roll…BART! The high pitched roar-like sound is the sound that BART makes from the inside of the car (for those of you who have never ridden BART). It’s so seamless and goddamn was I proud of myself for that!!!
Conclusion
- Another challenge conquered dudes!! And this one spawned some creativity I never would have done otherwise! This one was more of a technical win for me, not so much emotional, so this might seem like a dry ending, but I’ll leave with this…
It’s definitely true when they say “The best innovations come from being out of your comfort zone!”
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