Here's Speaking of Orbs from Intronaut's 2020 record, Fluid Existential Inversions. For a song that's well within my comfortable tempo range of 180 bpms, and surprisingly not too many time signature changes (the vast majority of the song is in 7/4 or 7/8 depending on how you want to subdivide the beats), this probably is one of the most difficult songs I've done for the channel! The difficulty stems primarily from the detailed, completely idiosyncratic drum part Alex Rudinger put down for this track, where in nearly all five minutes of the song, rarely are any measures/drum patterns repeated exactly as is. Often the drum parts are exploring displacements of the main backbeat, so even when you almost have a section down, there's always a measure coming down the pipeline to trip over. This song definitely has a drum part that takes detail to another level. The bassline, while not as melodically intricate as other basslines in Intronaut's catalog, is a real display of stamina. I had to use an awkward left hand fingering because I didn't have the accuracy to play the line without a pick, which is the way Joe Lester plays it (on fretless bass to boot!). Lastly, with regard to difficulty, there's a few sections of the song (notably the transition after the 1st chorus to the "Our Skin" bridge) where even though I learned how to play all the parts, I'm not really sure how to rhythmically think of the sections. There's an interesting interplay of 7/4 and 7/8 afoot there!
For tracking, all guitars were played through the fender cybertwin mic'd up with an sm57. Guitars were double tracked except in the intro and first verse, nor was the extra high pitched guitar over the choruses. Bass was direct in, although I added a bass synth to the intro, first verse, and guitar solo sections. I manually played the synth bass for a few measures to get the midi input, but then just sequenced it into the track because there was no way I was going to be able to play that part on keyboard tight enough for the nearly two minutes in the intro. Finally, drums were mic'd with my usual configuration and comped out of two takes (primarily one take and grabbing a bum fill here and there from the 2nd take). Vocals were recorded with an sm58, with judicious tuning applied because I suck at singing!
Anyway, I absolutely love this track and it was a real fun project to try and put it together! My hats off to Intronaut and anyone who's learned this track and played it live, not an easy song at all!
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