Work was closed Monday and school for the kids was closed Monday through Thursday, on account of snow and freezing temperatures. The Postal service actually stopped delivering mail for two days, it was so bad.
So for the day I was off, and then for two days I had to telework, I had my Sticks, and NS/Stick and guitars and bass all sitting next to me while I teleworked. I just kept adding layers and layers of lines to this tune, mainly with Lord Vader, the NS/Stick. The basic riff on NS just kept drawing me back to it; my own earworm that had to get out.
I then fed some lines through Jam Origins MIDI guitar and MIDI bass to generate some MIDI lines, as well as I played some organ lines on LinnStrument that I ended up deleting, because it didn't fit with the wall of guitars sound.
But I was able to use those MIDI lines and export them out of Pro Tools and into Logic Pro X, where I used Drummer to track drum lines with the organ line, lining up the kick and snare with the MIDI beats. I ending up not using the organ line, but it still helped me track the Drummer beats to the music. After I did it, I remembered that Drummer can track with audio too, at least according to Jayeskerr, but I had already used the MIDI lines. At some point, I should probably migrate over to Logic Pro X, instead of using it as a glorified plugin inside of Pro Tools.
Then I had a bunch of drum fills I strung together back in Pro Tools using NI's Studio Drummer. I had one track of those NI SD fills, and then another track of Studio Drummer fed the MIDI lines from Logic Pro X's Drummer plugin. Then I mixed both drum lines together into a buss and applied effects across the buss, to blend the two drum kits together into one. It's a technique that works well as long as you like busy drumming, and it may not be to your taste, but this is exactly the type of drumming that excites me. Where even Neil Peart would have to multitrack himself, or just go with two drummers. Two sets of snare hits and kicks either line up together for an extra ooph, or act as ghost notes on top of each other, and sounds completely deliberate. And with harder rock, a kick on every beat is perfectly fine.
And since I now had some MIDI lines, I even fed a few into Dracus and Strawberry plugins, to get a bigger wall of guitar sounds than just NS/Stick through Guitar Rig. So lots going on here, but a couple of pretty basic and simple blues riffs. And a 5/4 section at the end!
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Re: Trunk
bachdois wrote:
That was cool my friend! Loved the heavy attitude, wish I could go there sometimes rock and Stephen’roll!
Thanks, Rodrigo! I've got some more heavy stuff coming as well. And what I hope to call "funky."
I was telling Scott this morning that a blinding flash of light hit me over the weekend while I was noodling on the NS/Stick: why not use your right hand thumb edge percussively on the strings? And Jesus, God, and Mary in a sailboat with Noah, it sounds fucking amazing. I'm digging on the open low B string as a pedal note, and alternating between tapping notes with the left hand and fretting them, so that the right-hand thumb can bounce on the string. This is where I must share video to explain, which I will do shortly!
As a bass player, Rodrigo, I'm sure all that's old hat to you. But it's been the height of Funky Town for me. My big-ass blue thumb is already swollen from working it to absolute death--you all know how obsessive I get with a new technique. I have barely yet begun to slap!
And on the NS, it just takes the lightest touch, and you can still tap, so a slapping and a tapping funky-funk I go.
Slap Happy Steve, rocking it down here in Funky Fractal Town
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Re: Trunk
paigan0 wrote:
bachdois wrote:
That was cool my friend! Loved the heavy attitude, wish I could go there sometimes rock and Stephen’roll!
Thanks, Rodrigo! I've got some more heavy stuff coming as well. And what I hope to call "funky."
I was telling Scott this morning that a blinding flash of light hit me over the weekend while I was noodling on the NS/Stick: why not use your right hand thumb edge percussively on the strings? And Jesus, God, and Mary in a sailboat with Noah, it sounds fucking amazing. I'm digging on the open low B string as a pedal note, and alternating between tapping notes with the left hand and fretting them, so that the right-hand thumb can bounce on the string. This is where I must share video to explain, which I will do shortly!
As a bass player, Rodrigo, I'm sure all that's old hat to you. But it's been the height of Funky Town for me. My big-ass blue thumb is already swollen from working it to absolute death--you all know how obsessive I get with a new technique. I have barely yet begun to slap!
And on the NS, it just takes the lightest touch, and you can still tap, so a slapping and a tapping funky-funk I go.
Slap Happy Steve, rocking it down here in Funky Fractal Town
Videos, videos, videos!!!! We need videos!!!!!! Lol I really curious about that now!!!
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Re: Trunk
bachdois wrote:
Videos, videos, videos!!!! We need videos!!!!!! Lol I really curious about that now!!!
I'm doing some recording tomorrow, and I'll have video for you, at least a short little segment illustrating what I'm talking about.
I also made the mistake of looking up "bass slapping" videos. Wow, there are some really, really good ones. I'm just the rankest of beginner at the slapping, and haven't even figured out how to slap on any string except the outside low B string yet. I can't seem to get my thumb into the inner strings yet. But I am the one-string blue-thumb slap bandit so far and will share tomorrow!
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Re: Trunk
I used "Trunk" in my latest video production, an animation called "Melty Kleins." I'm using some new features of Mandelbulber, that only exist in the development version. I'm testing something called Boolean Primitives, which allows me to take what would be a water plane, and intersect it with the edge of fractals, and only render where the two layers intersect. Which, with moving water, makes an edge of moving, waving slices into the surfaces of the fractal. A video is worth a few thousand words describing the effect. I'm blazing trails here in fractal animation CGI-ness. I've never seen this effect used before, so take a look and you'll see what I mean.
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