So what I'm thinking is, I'm about 7 or eight weeks behind on SotW. And I need an impetus (if that means what I think it means) to do a post every day again, which various factors have been keeping me from doing. So hey, I thinks, I'll just do a Song a day for a week and kill two birds with one incredibly time-consuming stone. I have no idea if I'll actually follow through, but here's part two (of seven, obviously).
"Duel"
This song arose by accident. I was trying to come up with something and accidentally did the intro riff. Then I was all, that's cool, what would that sound like a little lower, and a modified version of that became the response riff. And then I was all, maybe I should take a break from dissonant noise experiments and make something that's actually shaped like a song? And, lo, "Duel" was born.
This one is intentionally pretty simple. High bass riff, low bass riff, then both kind of pulse for a few bars, then a guitar comes in and then a guitar solo. I think it's in G, or at least the solo is.
In a little more detail, it's some thing like this:
G|-11-12--|
D|--------|
A|--------|
E|--------|
and then E|--3-2-3-0-0-| or something. I can play it from memory but I don't know the exact order they go in, and I'm pretty sure the guitar part doesn't even use real chords (one of them is G5, but the others, I just played whatever sounded good).
The hardest thing here was coming up with a name. I just went with this one because it was simple,m like the song itself, and somewhat descriptive (because it kind of sounds like two basses fighting each other, metaphorically of course).
Oh, and you can choose not to believe this, but I took that cloud picture myself. With a cell phone. For reals.
Click here to see Part One
I had already finished writing this when I remembered this song had drums, which shows you how important they are to the song. In case you're wondering, Garageband sets the crash cymbal to the "h" key.
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