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It is embarrassing to admit how long this silly, less-than-two-minute song took me to rehearse. I wrote it on a flight across country in May, 2016 and finished recording in October, 2016. The first lead bass riff alone was a two-month hurdle. In fact, I wished I could have recorded the song at 105 BPM, but was only able to cleanly execute that riff at 100 BPM.
I’m really not sure where the motivation for this song came from. For the last year, I’ve been trying to tackle the never-ending, always-growing musical sketch list. My goal has been to plow through as much song-worthy material as possible before playing out with anyone. Seemingly out of nowhere, I was driven to write a song within Logic on my laptop, then record using real instruments. The synth version very much resembles early Nintendo games, such as Super Mario Bros. Because of this, I experimented with a bitcrusher plug-in. It sounded cool on the drums and lead bass, but since the saxes didn’t sound good, the bitcrushing was out of context.
As much as I’m willing to make fun of this song, I did enjoy duet’ing tenor saxophone and bass, my primary instruments. I hope to write more sax and bass duets.
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