"Spellbound"

This last grouping of songs is full of intentional reprisals and sequels (obviously Diamonds and Clubs noise, but also "Sunrise" vs. my first Bass Solo, "The Cove"/"Teardrop", "61"/"Mixology", as well as, slightly earlier and less intentionally, "Reaction"/"Duel" and "Insula"/"Hawaii"), as sort of a "look how far we've come" statement. This song was also written, about six months ago, as a response, though not, as you might expect, to "Rose", but to "Heavy Wood". It's meant to be equal and opposite-- where "Heavy Wood" used the textures and playing styles of metal but less of the melodic content or instrumentation, "Spellbound" uses metal-style scales and tonalities but is played in a different style altogether. Does that make sense? Probably not, but whatever.

Like "The Cove" and "Ray of Light" this idea that was written recently but shelved; unlike those I rediscovered it on accident when going through my GarageBand files. All i remembered was the basic concept, the overall Spanish guitar style, the use of diminished scales, and that it was about 2 and a half minutes long.

The song is based on a diminished scale which I'm pretty sure goes like this:

D|-0-1-3-4-6-7-8-9-12|

Music people will note that this scale has one too many notes. Whatever.