Thor the Bass Maniac
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Arial Whales Arial Whales
Improvised/Recorded on 2/4/07 Tracks: One (fretted) This title came to me one day when I was experimenting with echoes and string noise. Sliding a finger off of a string or bending a harmonic with an echo sounds like whale speech to me, but mo
Atonality Atonality
Written on 2/1/07, Recorded on 2/2/07 Tracks: Four (fretted) This was one of my first experiments with multitracking. I really went free-form on this one, not putting emphasis on keys or time signatures, but more on feeling and experimentation
Don't Count on It Don't Count on It
Improvised/Recorded on 2/25/07 Tracks: One (fretless) his was the album's final recorded track, based once again more on feel and less on timing. This was the fourth take of recording, constructed through the 'last week of production' daze
A Variety of Jellies and Jams A Variety of Jellies and Jams
Written/Recorded from 2/2/07 to 2/3/07 Tracks: One (fretted) This title came from my long time acquaintance Torry Haines. I used a number of chord-held hammer-ons and general hammer-ons along with banjo style picking to give this piece its va
Sif's Baklava Sif's Baklava
Fabrefaction: Ephydriad Fabrefaction: Ephydriad
Improvised/Recorded on 2/11/07 Tracks: One (fretted) Ephydriad is an old word that means 'water nymph'. This was the first of two songs based on words no longer used, and I attempted to make the bass sound like it was being played in a larg
Fabrefaction: Caprizant Fabrefaction: Caprizant
Improvised/Recorded on 2/11/07 Tracks: One (fretted) Caprizant is a word no longer used that means 'of the pulse, uneven or irregular'. This piece consists of building the number of hammer-on notes by one every eight measures, then doing so
Lowenders Lowenders
Written/Recorded on 2/18/07 Tracks: Four (two fretted, two fretless) This one goes out to the FP lowenders Matt '10,000' Watts and Taylor Dubois. This piece is the first ever recording with my custom Carvin LB75FP, recorded one day after rec
Perseverance Perseverance
Written on 2/4/07, Recorded on 2/11/07 Tracks: One (fretted) This composition stemmed from an old idea that I never quite turned into a whole piece. I combine two-handed tapping with banjo-style picking in this song about never giving up in th
Pac in Paradise Pac in Paradise
Improvised/Recorded on 2/13/07 Tracks: One (fretted) So I asked myself, 'what would Pac-Man's background music sound like if he took a vacation to a tropical island and those pesky ghosts shadowed him?' This is what I came up with. Enjoy!
