This song started its life as a little loop I wrote on guitar with my looper pedal. Basically the first half of the song comes from that idea, and there’s even a little bit of that original loop buried there in the mix. A year or two later I tried to record the song, and…
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One Weird Trick Your Doctor Doesn’t Want You to Know
Sometimes when I’m writing a piece of music, if I write it on guitar, I’ll later add in bass an other instruments, and by the time I’m done, the guitar isn’t nearly as prominent as I originally intended. It adds tone or color, and I feel like the verses of this song is a pretty…
Circles of Light
Every time I record a song, I both get better and feel like I’m relearning everything I used to know. With this track for instance, when I had most of the tracks laid down, the ending guitar riff felt so… weak. So I re-recorded the riff, 6-tracked it instead of quad-tracking, changed amp sim, but…
In a Few Billion Years the Sun
When I’m writing music, I usually have an image or scene in my mind while the riffs and pieces are coming together. Usually these images and scenes have nothing to do with anything–the music I’m working on just inspires them without logic or reason. Because of this, and because I mostly only write instrumental music,…
A Million Miles Away
When I first bought my Ibanez AS73 semi-hollowbody, one of the first things I came up with was the main chord progression for this song. I came up with a couple other parts to go along with it, but nothing ever seemed to “click”, and so a very rough demo just sat on my hard…