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…
Tag: post-rock
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…
Crunkjam ’18 (Family Fight Night)
Every year my wife’s friends got together around Thanksgiving for a friendsgiving dinner. As the years progressed, more and more children began showing up as people had kids. During Thanksgiving 2018, I developed a migraine, and all of those infants and toddlers cut right through my skull. I asked my wife if she would be…
You’re Going to Want to Move Faster
Last weekend I started messing around on guitar, trying to come up with something simple. And after about five minutes, I had most of the parts to this song put together. I started laying down scratch guitar parts and programmed some basic drums. After practicing the song a bit, I re-wrote the drums, added some…