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Metropolis Four. A bonus track for Dreams of a distant Sun.
A little bit different, all made in LP4i with a shitty 50 bucks guitar and a shittier 20 bucks USB microphone from Amazon ( but hey, it has RGB led!) in a super noisy environment.
https://josephbalson.bandcamp.com/track/metropolis-four
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Just listened through 3 times, first of all I have to say the guitar playing is exquisite: really melodic and tasteful. You really can't tell it's a cheap guitar and mic, that all just gets washed away in the music.
The melodic interplay between the different lead parts is just magical, and what I always get from listening to your music is this overwhelming sense of narrative, the arrangements are so well crafted that they always seem to be telling a story. I actually don't quite know how you do it - there isn't any repetition, just this evolving musical narrative that always seems to work and take you places, it's incredibly evocative and exceptionally well crafted.
Thank you @richardyot
I’m not a great guitar player, and the guitar wouldn’t stay tuned for more than 30 seconds…that thing required lots of editing.
About the arrangement, conventional song structures don’t make any sense to me, I never could write anything remotely close to a normal song. I’m just doing what I’m doing, trying to tell a story in music.
Nice work! Very musical. Proof that even cheap stuff can sound good in the right hands. I like the style of this track.
It's a nice-looking guitar though, and the editing paid off because the final piece is terrific.
I think linear song structures are the hardest to do, because it's difficult to keep them interesting without the repetition of melodic hooks or themes, but you do this incredibly well.
@Dav @richardyot thanks.
Yes, the guitar is quite pretty.
I updated the bandcamp version, tried to improve the mix, and killed the snare drum.
Loved it, Joseph.
Improvised, right? Now, maybe, write some lyrics. I’ve done that with a couple of improvisations. It can be done. Here’s an example… And myself singing… I’m pretty certain you can do better!
Not improvised @LinearLineman
Had that and a few more pieces in my head for a couple weeks. That’s why I got the guitar and microphone.
I’m not a bad pianist and I suck at improvising on a piano. I’m not a good enough guitar player to even try. The old paper and pen is definitely my way. Then with the guitar I can cheat with the edit to reproduce the music that was in my head in the first place.
I won’t even try to write lyrics. Singing, writing music for singer, having anything even remotely interesting to put in lyrics: I can’t do. I’m still not really verbal.
I communicate what I feel in music and photos just because I don’t know how to put that in words. I’m not to bad with words only for technical or factual agit.
@jo92346 You know, telling us how not great of a player you are only serves to intimidate us further, right? 😂
@jebni thanks, but I’m really not a good guitarist, not even average. Without all the edits the guitar is awful in my last two pieces. I could never play it live.
This one is great too @jo92346!
I could have sworn it was a classical/nylon string guitar - especially on Requiem for a Butterfly. How did you get that sound?
@pbelgium, no, a little bit rusty metal strings, not a nylon.
bit of overdrive with hi frequency setting -> VERY heavy handed equalization -> noise gate to try to mitigate various ambient noises, recording noises, clics, pops, my fingers and all the string’s zinging then -> tape sim to add some flutter and some noise to hide the noise that remains and a heavy handed reverb to hide all the copy paste cuts and other edits.
You may not be a great guitar player (your words 😊) but musicality just oozes out of you whatever the style and however you create a piece of music. Mesmerising stuff 👌
Thank you @GeoTony