The Hunger was nice but its just a silly rythm.
It is
funny how success automatically
sprays arrogance liquids over the brain,
clouding it with
delusions of grandeur.
I have yet to create my first true original piece of music,
and yet I can not create anything,
as I am not truly a musician yet,
so I must copy someone else's work still,
or else it will be beyond my skills.
But I am a professional listner of
70s rock music since teenhood,
and would not compromise on low quality or very few tracks,
having followed
The Beatles track expansion history in my teens.
Nor will I degrade myself to a short piece,
now that I am so damn arrogant.
Damn, I want at least twenty minutes,
and even with copying,
I must tell you,
playing the guitar is not like pressing
a button on a xerox machine.
Copying takes time too - lots.
So I can't copy if I want to die a musician,
It will take too long,
and I am young and agile and arrogant,
and want things right now.
So I made an experiment.
I took three of the Crickets III rythms my fingers
know so well by now,
and recorded them one on top of the other.
I forgot to mention this is several weeks
after I changed my guitar to Stanley Jordan's
fourth tuning, after long and painful hesitation.
The last two strings are now named after Camel and Frank Zappa
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| Keith Emerson |
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| Alan Parsons |
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| David Bowie |
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| George Harrison |
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| Camel |
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| Frank Zappa |
rather than
Bob Marley and Keith Emerson
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| Bob Marley |
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| Keith Emerson |
I had to re-learn all the chords,
and instead decided to skip the usual chords
I had previously known,
and only learn new chords with the touch technique,
one at the time as I need them.
This was very time conserving.
It is always like that when you avoid doing rather than do.
I did a bit more inspection on the net regarding
voicing -
a concept I had just recently heard for the first time,
after watching Stanley Jordan's video for the seventh time.
With the new forth tuning it was almost too easy
to find new and simple voicings on the higher
side of the neck.
Back to the ducks, the experiment was a shear wow.
It sounded like chords, marching.
The rest was easy.
I took from the Hammerhead Rythm Station Software a
Basic Rock beat at 240, which I later discarded,
and created a
metronome-like
track with the A note on the one.
This was quite boring, so I only did five minutes,
and I doubled it with
Audacity.
And again, ending with twenty minutes.
The A track reminded me of the chaos in
Strawberry Fields Forever,
especially with the semi chaos I had just heard
in my experiment.
So I tagged this piece up front,
only to discover its a B,
and that
Audacity nicely brings it down to an A,
with a menu button.
I also tagged one in the back,
to make sure my lack of confidence is not lost by anyone,
as if someone is actually listening to my music.
My fingers only knew six separate
sequences from Crickets III,
so I recorded six tracks.
Given I had just recorded about all I know how to play,
save The Hunger rythm,
I thought it might be good for the general chaos
to throw this one in as well.
Chaos must be a good way to start something
or else God would have started somewhere else.
The result was awesome, and only later I came up
with the name.
I can picture a scene from
Fantasia.
At first there is a chaos of ducks, trying to find
the better way to be obidient to the rest of the ducks.
It takes them about forty seconds to all start tilting together,
except that one little duckling is always begging for help.
This was when in the high pitch sequence
I decided to reverse the one and the three,
so that the A falls together with more
other As from the other sequences.
It seemed like a good idea at the time,
and the result was hilarious,
though not remotely resembling goals or expectations.
The hunger was about the same.
Only after I already had the Fantasia mental picture in place,
and since I recorded the hunger track unevenly,
mixing the base sequence on the same track alternately,
from shear exaustion, by the way,
it occured to me it is actually mother duck,
making sure everyone is in line,
which they hardly ever are all at once.
After all, I don't quite know how to play yet.
And so I raised a bit the volume of this track.
And if you listen very carefully,
then towards the end there is one duck,
perssitently yelling a bunch of U2s,
for the benefit of the other
ducks.
