Tim - Week 2

Hey all! I actually got everything up in a timely matter this week. Nothing crashed, and I had a fairly easy time recording. Awesome.

So A and B could technically be part of the same song. They are in the same key, as well as same tempo..well...sorta. A is essentially chromatic. Starting an octave apart and ending at a major third, the lowest note moves up a half step every bar, and the highest note moves down a half step. It's pretty neat. B is pretty much a straight up heavy metal riff. Actually, kind of reminds me of a mix between Eternal Legacy and Opeth. \m/ Please excuse some of the sloppy playing near the end of B.

C is..well...just C. I don't have much to say about this one, other than the fact that it uses 7 chords. Oh, Joy!

D and E are the complicated ones for the week. In D, the distorted guitar is basically playing in 3, with 8 16th notes at the end of each other bar. The bass is keeping everything moving in 4/4, and the clean guitar is actually playing a mixture of 8th and quarter note quintuplets, or groupings of 5 (like triplets are groupings of 3). The end of it is just syncopated dotted 8th notes with all of the instruments playing the same thing. The entirety of D is in 4/4 time.

E is more like the beginning of a new song entirely (though it's not worked out for that right now). The whole part is written in 5 (starts in 5/4, then moves to 5/8). And then, of course, I had to modulate it toward the end and throw in some syncopation :)