{"id":3599,"date":"2013-02-15T11:50:32","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T19:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=3599"},"modified":"2016-07-24T09:39:37","modified_gmt":"2016-07-24T16:39:37","slug":"a-bit-of-pile-driving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/15\/a-bit-of-pile-driving\/","title":{"rendered":"a bit of pile-driving"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sorry for no update on Wednesday; I’ve just been kind of swamped. But I had a fun interview with a couple of BCIT students doing a student documentary project for class; it’ll have some of my music in it, too.<\/p>\n

The soundtrack album is in a frustrating stage, on a frustrating cycle. I’m in a spot where I learn a bunch of new tunes well enough to play them for recording in studio – takes about a week – then timing-edit them into a basis track, the track everybody else will use as foundation for timing and rhythm. Then I drop that track entirely, move on to the next set of tunes, and repeat.<\/p>\n

None of this is much fun or creative. I’m having to do this on both mandolin and zouk, neither of which are optimal instruments for this kind of melody; the zouk is particularly difficult. A fair number of musicians outright say you can’t<\/em> do this on zouk, effectively, and often I feel like agreeing with them, particularly when I’m in hour three of timing edits making every note exactly. rhythm. perfect.<\/p>\n

So it’s kinda gruelling and not highly motivating. It’s like being an expressive metronome.<\/p>\n


My heart is not<\/b> a metronome<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But this is partly my own fault. Once I realised I was going to have to do this – the original intent was that I wouldn’t have to do this part, but, well, things go the way they go – I stacked my work schedule all together this way up front. “Pile-drive my way through this,” I thought, “and then I can get arty.”<\/p>\n

This was not my most brilliant decision.<\/p>\n

I’ve actually had to let myself get a little arty already. I wish I could throw you a player for the fight scene music. There’s a chapter in Bone Walker<\/i>, the second book in the Free Court of Seattle<\/i> series, and I’m arranging Odeo Nihonbashi (Japanese folk, and there are reasons), a Scots tattoo called Douce Dame Jolie, and an Irish jig that I’ve turned into a march, as kind of a really really short symphonic movement with leitmotifs and everything. I did this one first, because it’s the most difficult of the tune sets to integrate, and honestly I can’t wait for this one to get out there.<\/p>\n

There are big, big drums. Really, really big drums<\/em>, along with some Irish bodhran. And that<\/em> is where it’s been fun. HUGE DRUMS!<\/b> I love them. But it’s not finished. Those instruments are recorded, but we still need the flute – and it has to be chromatic due to key changes, so I can’d do it myself – and some other work. So not yet.<\/p>\n

But soon. I hope.<\/p>\n

Encourage me, will you? I’m hip-deep in the draggy part of this. MOTIVATE THE METRONOME!<\/p>\n


Of course this had to be out there, too.<\/a><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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