Posted on Monday, April 17 2006
It’s really beyond me why I never uploaded Wheel into this blog. It probably should have gone up with Letterbox Landscape all those months back. So far, this is the only song I’ve abandoned for a long time (about a year?) and actually come back to. It was just such a gawdamn pain to work with- I wrote the whole thing in 1/32 triplets at 45bpm, four-four. Listening to it, you never would’ve guessed. The notes in the middle that sounds like triplets are actually just regular 32nd notes. Honestly, what the hell was I thinking? It was just too pretty not to finish.
Despite the awkward authoring method, I think the track came out well. Okay, the percussion and bass lines are abysmal, but they aren’t the point- I wanted to write a piano piece. Maybe I’ll go back someday and add good drums, an engaging bassline, and chord up the piano lines. Maybe. First I’m going to take some good advice and finish up my mix. Heck, it was damn near done when I abandoned it. A few fixed transitions, some volume normalization and there I go. I spent way too much time on it, and it is way too good to stew anonymously in My Documents. Will be up soon. Yeah, right.