January 9th, 2025 (repetition)

Repetition is a powerful tool for catching the listener’s attention, especially when you set and expectation and break it later. A drone note, an ostinato, a persistent beat, are all great hooks to keep the listener entertained.

Prompt: write a song exploring repetition
BPM: 111
Key: Ab minor

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Jamuary 2025 - Techno TD3 RD6 with Volca Drum Noises

Prompt: write a song exploring repetition

Plenty of this! :wink:

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I’m wanted to try something different today, so I sampled some drum patterns along with bass & guitar parts that I played. I added a few synth parts and kicks to round it out.

The bass is a fretless Fender Jazz Bass & the guitar is a Tele parts-caster I built. The rest was done on the Elektron Digitakt II and Digitone II.

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Very cool Joe. It has a spaghetti western feel to it! Nice.

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Got three sequences with repetitive patterns, phase shifting the timing for each. Finally used a keychange for once!

Watch the livestream where I build this jam here: www.youtube.com/live/J58hgr9AGZo?si=fIYTskW-MHxltfva

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An irregular guitar riff and Cardinal VST for robo-mallets.

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@JoeL8X Love that surfer vibe, great track.

@MyopicMycelium The jam is really mesmerizing, I enjoyed it a lot.

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This sounds so good!

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I had fun playing around with some polymeters today, using short repeating patterns of different lengths.

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That was fun to write!

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So, I don’t know if you can tell, but Ravel’s Boléro was stuck in my head all day.

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@CarfDarko I love how this is 180 degrees from the vibe i was in, thank you for putting a smile on my face :wink:

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Well, unfortunately, I headed right in to jamming around with repetition and realized that a tempo and a key were given only after I had finished the jam, well … sorry for that! :sweat_smile:

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Day 9. I think I got a little better song out today. Although I didn’t have much time to do it. Tomorrow I might think it’s not that good. My songs have been quite repetitive, so I didn’t change much here. Tempo: 111 bpm, key: Ab

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A raw monosynth composition. Clap and shaker are from MPC’s Drumsynth, the rest is all unprocessed Uno Synth Pro X.

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Prompt: write a song exploring repetition
BPM: 111
Key: Ab minor

I included several repeating elements in this cinematic-like piece, starting with a steady pulse beat and a motif consisting of chimes and piano. I then layered a simple melody played by strings which is then repeated by a solo piano at the end.

Created in Logic Pro. AI image created in ChatGpt. Animation made in: https://vizzy.io

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recorded something so bad I can’t post it - loving everyones jams, keep it up!!

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and then I though hangon, what’s wrong here. its that pesky tempo that I can’t make work with my style and I’m just baking this style so what if I change it up to a tempo I can groove to. and now take two, live from the stairwell and much more in my style. think it is in A-flat minor. definitely plenty of repetition but I am going for a bit of hypnotic…

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I finally caught up with the prompts… today a jam with the OP-Z:

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https://on.soundcloud.com/XceGgcbE4ejGN86bA

This one really spilled out quick and I’m super happy with it. Probably one of my faves so far. Prompt was a good excuse to try one of the premeditated ideas I had before January started, which was to build a nice section, bounce it out then play the bounced copy over the top with a different loop length creating nice delay effects and canons in the melody lines.

I think it worked out really well. Could do with a bit of percussion and the sections being a bit more defined but that can be sorted in the Jamuary wrap up!

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