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  • Bigger Than You

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    I kept this one is as close to the original demo as I could possibly get it. This was another case of the first thing I played being surprisingly good, so I kept it. This is sort of a cross between Paul Gilbert and Nothing But Thieves, but for some reason those harmonics from Machine…

  • Make It Count

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    This was honestly a really difficult one but I think it’s 90% of the way there. I decided that I just had to bite the bullet now as I have been badly procrastinating on putting this out. The subject matter is pretty heavy, and there’s a lot of singing involved which is a very, very…

  • Change

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    This is a somewhat darker track, both in terms of the themes but also the overall tonality. I had a period where I was experiencing some pretty big challenges and this translated into writing a lot of music which starts out very dark and brooding, but I’ve always tried to find a way to turn…

  • All of Us Together

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    I think I must have been listening to Ommadawn a lot when I wrote this; more in terms of the use of vibrato and ornamentation than the composition. The writing process was very quick; I improvised the melody in one-and-a-half takes and after that the arrangement also came together quite naturally. It’s nice when a…

  • Cetacean

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    geebee
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    This one really goes places. I tried splitting the different sections out into their own songs but none of them worked out. I think there’s a reasonable flow from one section to another, so it doesn’t seem too odd unless you directly compare the final section with the introduction. As you can imagine from the…

  • Eminence

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    This is a song that I wrote while I was trying to write another song, which itself turned into two separate songs. Sometimes compositions take a lot of effort to fit together, and sometimes they seem to just come out naturally. You’ll often hear from (actual, professional) songwriters that they feel like a particular piece…

  • Mountaintop

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    This is more of an improvised sketch, really, but sometimes a piece of music doesn’t really need anything more added. Gear-wise this is my JEM with the Sustainiac running through Archetype Plini. I might also have used an EBow on some of the backing instruments; it’s inferior to the Sustainiac in nearly every conceivable way…

  • Turns into Mike

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    This is a remaster of an older tune; the main difference is that I re-did the bass part and “re-amped” the guitars (i.e. swapped the original Native Instruments Guitar Rig plugins out for Neural DSP equivalents). The verse is heavily inspired by Eric Johnson’s track “Trademark”, while the chorus sounds a lot more like Mike…

  • Where is This Going?

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    I tend to get more productive when I’m feeling frustrated. Music’s a great way of taking negative emotions and sublimating them into something more positive. I like instrumentals that have lyrics (I’m pretty certain that “Liberty” by Steve Vai is an example, and that’s a killer tune). The human voice is much more engaging to…

  • Go Punt

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    This is the companion piece to “Ardor“; the two are intended to be the first and last tracks of an EP, although I haven’t quite worked out which songs best fit in between. Despite being, by my standards, unusually dense and orchestrated, this was surprisingly easy to mix.