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Drumbeat

Sequenced synthesizers and drum machines aren’t the usual way to record a 12-bar blues. Nevertheless, that’s how I expedited my way through a 2020 songwriting challenge that asked participants to write and record ten songs in one month. Even so, I didn’t make it to ten, but this was one of the tunes I wrote for it that I really liked.

I wanted to rerecord it, not only because I wanted to hear it with more traditional instrumentation, but also because other musicians add so much. Having limited my involvement to just vocals and bass guitar, I present the now-official version. (Down below, you can listen to the synth-based demo version as well.)