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

From the original Analog Industries archive. Some links and images from that era no longer resolve.

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.

6 comments

  1. inteliko

    The obligatory post 90's missing cassette door.

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

  2. dj empirical

    Totally dug this vid.

  3. rapfreak

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

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

  4. xmodz

    @chris

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

  5. lockan

    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?

  6. Chris Randall

    @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

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