# Four Chords The Hard Way: Tech Talk No. 003...

- Site: Analog Industries
- Author: Chris Randall
- Date: 2016-07-18
- URL: https://analogindustries.com/2016/07/four-chords-the-hard-way-tech-talk-no-003/

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Step 1: Plan out a cool video. Buy gear from eBay to shoot video about. Gear arrives broken.

Step 2: Plan out another cool video to replace it. Buy gear to shoot video about. Idea turns out to be stupid and not-working, and not in a cool way but in a stupid and not-working way.

Step 3: Look around office for \_anything\_ to shoot a video about. Shoot video about that.

## Comments (6)

**inteliko** (2016-07-18):

The obligatory post 90's missing cassette door.

Miss those days.. But a 3 pack of the good cassettes. Those recordings sounded so good.

**dj empirical** (2016-07-19):

Totally dug this vid.

**rapfreak** (2016-07-19):

Another cool video of this technique but the complete opposite end of the cool gear spectrum:

https://youtu.be/Bh9d9Hd4IQE?t=693

**xmodz** (2016-07-21):

@chris

Which monome euro module do you like using the most these days?

**lockan** (2016-07-22):

A bit of a tangent, but the comment you made towards the end regarding playing the same thing every time you sit at a keyboard struck me. I find I have the same problem - I always go to the same chords and rhythm patterns. Aside from arcane analog alchemy, what else do you do to break out of those habitual modes?

**Chris Randall** (2016-07-22):

@xmodz: I use White Whale and Teletype in virtually every patch. I've written a bunch of White Whale control scripts on Teletype that make it much more versatile than the stock module. I have an Earthsea, but I hardly ever use it.

@lockan: One thing I did was start to play parts on the Push 2 instead of a keyboard. I actually don't have a controller keyboard hooked up at all any more. But learning chord shapes and stuff on the Push 2 really changed the way I approach chord progressions and melodies. The other thing I do is manually entering the notes on the piano roll instead of playing anything. There's a third trick that I may or may not give up in a future video, but which produces the best results. If I mentioned it here, some other chucklehead would put it on YouTube in about 10 minutes, and I'd be out the views.

-CR