AnthonyCervantez

It’s done. I wish I could say I felt happy with it but my grandfather just died; the most pyrrhic victory possible. I’ll be back later with new content after some R&R. A writeup post will come first. I want to thank everyone who consistently liked each post, you know who you are, and I’ll be sure to pay it forward to you later for your continual support. Please have a good weekend.

I'm happy to be entering the final week of the challenge. I'm currently drafting a nice little write-up holding my thoughts and things I've learned along the way.

Not much to say about this one, just focusing on stability with timing and groove paired with fluidity.

Working with the Quad Cortex to see if I could make a fake bass tone without using any of my computer processing power. Since the QC allows me to have up to four amp sims I attempted to created two distinct low bass amps paired with the natural Harpejji tone on top.

Working on soloing more. Trying to hop around chord shapes while staying in diatonic scales.

Practicing some fluidity between shapes on the harpejji and linking with related scales based tonal harmony. More complex beat == higher likelyhood of breaking phrasing. Need to figure out better solutions to this. Probably will start a blog on my site after the 100 days.

Working on adding subtle fill changes in addition to transfers between song sections. Sometimes theres a little tooo much lilt, but what can you expect tracking two instruments at once.

Adding in more percussion elements to help create variety.

Practicing drop-ins, more off the cuff stuff, and adding textures/variations while maintaining a riff.

Double header for the late days. A family member is about to pass, don’t have a lot of time to focus on this stuff atm.

Had even less time today for this one. Finally decided to break out the pads, trying to give off an "intelligent punk" vibe circa 80's Stewart Copeland. Lots of studying going on this week.

Literally had 20 minutes to record this on the spot. Needed something quick and fast, have been working out my double kick chops so I figured it it was time to put it to the test for a working beat. I was digging in it by the end.

Honing in on my stability with ghost notes on the snare with some dynamics. Was going for a dub/outkast/early gorillaz kinda thing on the harpejji. I’m on crunch time for another week so no real time to elaborate on ideas or have a tonne of practice time.

I think this is the fourth day I’ve fell off the wagon. Last night I pulled an all nighter getting some freelance and programming work done. Priorities. Working on some more fills that are lengthy. Only 20 more days!

Another double header for today. I’m in crunch time with a lot of different projects. Recorded this yesterday but had to time to edit or upload it. Worked on sliding and using inner fingering for some more variation.

Inverted the pattern from yesterday between my feet. Rushing a little on the transition, but tbh the E-hat I’m using doesn’t like fast and rapid foot tapping. Nothing like a real hi-hat, but I hope when I get that DW-E kit all will be solved.

A little sloppy at the end but I think I can safely say I've broken the slump I was in with creating drum beats that I actually like.