News You Can Bruise for 2005 December 12 (entry 1)

Mon Dec 12 2005 21:00 PST When I stop the drum machine: Does anyone else get into a fugue state programming a drum machine where it feels like you're playing Space Invaders or using the old TheDraw drawing program?

I like how Hydrogen makes you come up with names for your drum patterns. Never before have I had to name parts of songs. My names for the patterns of the song I'm working on:

• Bass heavy
• Smells Like Teen Spirit
• Cymbal Mania (square)
• Cymbal Mania (swing)
• So there!
• + Snare
• Take it to the bridge
• Cymbal for bridge
• Another dang cymbal
• The bridge seems to be getting angrier!

I also find myself putting down dummy tracks that give a visual picture of the different parts of the song; otherwise I get confused and forget how long things take. Yes, I'm a worse percussionist than George Michael Bluth.