Endless Blue

Inspiration struck today, so I hammered this one out. Used only instruments from a new sound bank I got that were the cause of the inspiration.

Missed last week, got too busy with the new album. Just went with four instruments for this one and used automation and effects to create motion. The big wall'o'noise is thanks to Valhalla Supermassive and knob twiddling on it throughout the whole track. Needed to dial it back a bit at the end to keep it melodic.

Ah, this one actually started pretty early in the week and was able to steep properly. Banged out the main riff and drums into the general structure, then it was all filling in the blanks, with a little trip to "Butt Rock" territory. Most fun I've had on a weekly beat in a long time!

Fell behind on my weekly beats posting! This one popped out of playing around with my new guitar and mic rig. Used one of my preferred reverbs (Line6 Particle Verb) on the guitars and played those parts. Built out the arrangement, filled in percussion and fingerdrums. Ended up with a sort of shoegazey sad slow track.

Literally sat down and banged out the chorus chords right away, rolled with it. Verse is a little odd, not sure if it'll survive, same with the bridge. Still with the no MIDI for instruments thing. Didn't get overly intricate with my first track back.

Finally back with some Weekly Beats! Missed the cutoff for the official site by like 2 minutes, decided to post here instead. Picked up a guitar, came up with the main riff. Built it out from there, including the addition of some mandolin!

Lacked inspiration for a few weeks there, but found it in a game I have been playing recently. Music is terrible -- too ambient and lacking any personality that fits with the gameplay. So I decided to start writing an alternate soundtrack, and this is the first track.

Feeling sick but powered through it to get this done today. This one ended up a Moby style jam. Nothing too fancy, just fun stuff. Love that Film Octaves on my Juno-G.

Took a few weeks off due to some scheduling and health stuff, but back with a bit of an oddball beat. Not convinced that the verse and chorus go all that well together, but it's what I ended up with, and figured I should just see it through. Verse beat and bass line came first, and I dig that open string hit.

Our latest single, a song about saying goodbye because you have to. ▶ Links : https://links.endlessblue.com/@beautiful-season

Wrote this one killing time right before I hopped on an Uber to the airport on Friday. Just plinking around on the piano as usual. Sunday rolled around and I still hadn't really started, but this one was definitely going in the lo-fi bets direction, so how hard could it possibly be? Yeah, 1.75 hours, LFG.

As usual, just dinking around and found something that reminded me of Metroid. Decided to follow the thread and chase it down, but where I was looping wasn't on a 4/4 grid... So rather than force it I rolled with a 7/4 time signature that gives the whole track a lopsided unsettling feel, which is Metroid all the way down.

Started this one early in the week while preset surfing on the AstroLab, but as usual ended up being a photo finish on Sunday. Went with a really simple progression/structure and chased the production and builds instead. Baritone and bass and wurli oh my. About eleventy billion vocal melodies running through my head for this one.

I don't even have much to say about the process in this one, maybe more about the anti-process. I wanted to make sure I didn't have any loops running through the entire song (something I feel I've been suffering from lately), so I purposefully removed them when it felt right. Got pretty far on the verse vibes, then created a chorus. Wasn't big enough, so the baritone guitar came to save the day. R...

Ahhhh first non-Jamuary Weekly Beat... Got to work on this one over several sessions. Grew organically from the main melody, especially the chorus chords. Still following the Jamuary thought of playing everything live, except for one of the string layers that I MIDIed in. Last thing on the track was the bassline, which is kind of odd for my process.

Wrapping it up with a slow build lofi track. Made the main piano melody slowly disappear in the track.

Rolled with big beat drums and a few synth lines. Live bass line worked well here. Second to last!

Got rolling with this one after finding a cool 808 bass sound and a matching cool drum loop. Built from there bada bing bada boom.

Pretty simple one, banged it out in less than two hours. Hit the jackpot on the beat, wrote the verse chord progression in my head, followed the rabbit down the hole.

Home stretch, and it's getting gritty. Had to bang this one out with just a little time. Basic, a little loopy, but made it work.

Did a little something minimal, mostly because it took a while to get this one rolling... A lot of automation to make it move.

A little angry stuff. Broke out the 7-string.

Tired. Just wanted to make something pretty today.

Was a bit pressed for time on this one, so just rolled with a groove and some sounds with just in/out arrangement. Not the usual level of polish.

Busted out the baritone for the first time in 2026. Made a concerted effort to do the chorus arrangement a little different than I usually do (no pads).