Standing in the Dark
This was recorded at about the same time as "Under the Influence,"
and the music was completed first (it was started second, but it's very simple),
but I spent more time mixing and mastering this one, in the hopes
of applying lessons I had learned from the feedback on the former piece.
Also:
- I should probably warn listeners that this song started as a joke. I basically
decided to see how quickly and easily I could write a simple techno tune. I
never originally had any intention of releasing a recording of it, but I just
happened to try playing guitar along with it one evening, and I really liked
what I was playing. If I had known how much time I would eventually spend on
editing/mixing/mastering this song, I probably wouldn't have ever bothered...
- The distortion guitar stuff is entirely improvised, but probably about half
of the clean section is composed.
- The very beginning was actually a mistake.. I was trying to write the main
chords of the song, but I wrote them wrong. Needless to say, I liked the
mistake.
- Although the chord progression is extremely simple compared to "Under the
Influence," I took advantage of that to try more interesting things with the
guitar. I use at least three different scales: ionian, mixolydian, and blues.