Red Echo

September 28, 2007

Music music music. I took my keyboard over to Dawn’s place last night and we played some songs. Trying to cover a rock song as a duet is hard work, and all your mistakes show up clearly, but it was fun. She played drums, I played bass with one hand and accompaniment with the other, and we traded off singing; with that kind of stripped-down arrangement it’s really all about the song itself.

I have been listening to goa trance all morning and I can’t stop breaking down the song structure as I listen: tracking the parts coming in and out, the 8-bar slow-mo knob twists, the percussion shifts, the bass-line dropouts… I want to do this.

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  1. “I can’t stop breaking down the song structure as I listen: tracking the parts coming in and out, the 8-bar slow-mo knob twists, the percussion shifts, the bass-line dropouts… I want to do this.”

    I’m so, so happy that your musical muse is by your side, Mars! I wrote about this very phenomenon not long ago:
    http://jennaxide.livejournal.com/97989.html

    Comment by j like juliet e like echo november november alpha — September 28, 2007 @ 10:39 am