Music Lesson:

• Listening to petrichor slices
  • Teacher suggested increasing the tempo
  • Add some texture to the bass note
• Mathcore is about creating an irregular, unusual rhythm, but making it normal through repetition
• Listening to Never Meant by American Football
  • The bass notes here start off simple, following the chord progression
  • Later on in the song, the bass notes play more often
• shibuya by Covet
  • The bass notes here are more active, but they don’t play all of the notes in the riff
• Teacher played a more active bass line as an example along with the existing track, and it sounds a lot more like mathcore now to me.
  • The bass line adds complexity because it’s not playing the same thing as the melody
  • Could try jumping back and forth between the octaves or fifths
  • The bass has its own metric pattern that might end at the same time as the guitar riff
  • For something simpler, I could, wherever i start my riff again, put a new root note in the bass
• We talked briefly about “Free Jazz”, which is usually a trio of people playing their own thing. They might start off with the same bass, but there’s no written music or chord progression that they stick to.