Rocktron Chameleon

Heat Before Serving

Note: This post was written in 2025 and backdated to appear on the day I wrote and published the track. Either it’s getting close to the end of the month, I’m running out of ideas, or I’m just in a groove making Lo-Fi. Well, it’s actually probably a little of all three columns. For the last several years, I’ve had an unwritten “never do the same genre two days in a row” rule for Song-A-Day. Actually, it’s not really a rule, but more of a guiding principle. The underlying questions I have for myself is why do I have that … Continue reading

The Search for Tubbs

Note: This post was written in 2025 and backdated to appear on the day I wrote and published the track. I’m not sure what this style / genre would have been called back in the 80s, but these days it’s called Synthwave. This is as “stereotypical” a synthwave track as I can think of, yet it’s absolutely true to an actual 80s track by Jan Hammer or Giorgio Moroder. The arrangement is simple, as is the instrumentation: drums, bass, guitar, electric piano, and two synths. The guitar is a real one (as opposed to a sampled or modeled one). I’m … Continue reading

I Will Provide

Note: This post was written in 2025 and backdated to appear on the day I wrote and published the track. If Give It To Me was a swing and a miss, this track turned into a triple. I’d continued to noodle with the guitar over the last three days and was looking for a way to use it again. I loaded up a rock kit in Superior Drummer 3. I’m not sure I would have attempted a song like this if I were programming the drums. I might have done something using Stylus RMX, but … Continue reading

Give it to Me

Note: This post was written in 2025 and backdated to appear on the day I wrote and published the track. Ohhhhhh what to say about this one? It’s one of my “swing and a miss” tracks – what I had in my head was pretty cool, but the final result is definitely lacking. On the positive side of things, I think the riff of the hook is pretty solid. Maybe not crazily original, but it gets the job done. Also, I actually played it on guitar not once, but multiple times (there are four guitar tracks: two left and two … Continue reading