January 4th, 2025 (key change)

Prompt: Make a jam with a key change
BPM: 127
Key: at least 2 :upside_down_face:

Similar to yesterday’s post, let’s write a jam with a key change. It could be either parallel modulation (C to Cm, for example), relative modulation (C to Am), and upward modulation (C to D), or any other change.

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Sorry, already jammed this morning…
Problem with time zones I’m afraid.
Anyway, I followed the prompt from Hardware Jams

"And happy Friday. As the third of January is also National JRR Tolkien day, this weekend we want you to explore your inner middle earth. I would like you to get fantastical with your imaginations.
Tolkien was known for writing long, lengthy tomes and for having created an entire universe, timeline, and history in his mind. I would like you to transport yourself into one of Tolkien’s lands, the time and place of elves, orcs, dwarves and Hobbits and magic. "

I think this sounds like deep underground in a mine…
Ambient with ROAT and NTS 1 Space reverb

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Sorry, I scheduled this post, but timezones made it show up too late. Tomorrow I’ll have an early post!

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It’s okay. Thanks for organising everything.

A petit guitar improv.
I forgot the suggested bpm, hope I won’t be disqualified

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Here’s today’s submission! Another ambient jam: This time made with S1gn’s of Life’s new preset pack for Vital: Anomaly 4. Love the sounds in this pack. I wish I had seen the prompt before I started, cause I have been wanting to play with key changes more.

Also: I streamed the process of me preparing the jam if anyone is interested.

PREPARING FOR DAY 4 LIVESTREAM

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That’s awesome. I really enjoyed this one.
I appreciate you posting the preparation video! I hope to get some time to check it out tonight, I’m interested in learning more about your process.

I had fun playing more with the op-z but I found today’s challenge of changing key quite tough. In a good way though! I really appreciate the prompts. But it makes it clear to me how much I have left to learn and to train myself to listen for.

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Amazing ambient for an intro theme of UFO series with dinosaurs

The prompt was published later than I allotted time for so I just did what came to me :wink:

Made on an Elektron Digitakt II & Digitone II w/ a Moog Minitaur for the bass. It also has a glitchy line generated by an Erica Synths Bassline DB-01 that creeps in through a Microcosm.

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Here’s my jam for the day. A funky little thing with the Roland Fantom X-6 and the Boss DD20 for some of that crisp delay.

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Day 4. Another hard one- I wasn’t in mood for jamming, but it was still fun after I found the time to do it. Not overly happy with the jam, didn’t put much effort today, but still got something out. Didn’t follow the prompt.

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Pro-tip: you can use the Master track on the OP-Z to change keys easily! It will autodetect the key based on the bass track (if I remember correctly), and you can transpose it by semi-tones. It’s a really useful trick to write songs from a single pattern.

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I had a hard stop at the top of the hour today, so I threw together a little punk song: Jan 4

Gotta love that chorus key change :heart:

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Well,

i love all the videos here and so i did one too. Was difficult for me to play and control at the same time
. But was fun. Very pure jam. Enjoy.

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Still the 4th here…I think I recorded something on the 2nd but that was truly terrible. Missed the 3rd so happy to get something down today. As I am just starting to record live jams I haven’t had much luck following the prompts so this is just what happened today.

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Key change D to A in the middle and oops on the tempo.

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sounds awesome! I was photographing mushrooms in my backyard this morning.

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Oh that’s so cool, thank you! I feel like there’s a ton to learn in this little device. I’m very grateful for the help!