Days Of Or- Acoustic Improvisation.

 I picked up the guitar last evening and after picking for a half hour I came up with this. I think one description of some of my past acoustic work uses words like "meandering" I guess this probably fits that bill.It might meander but it also has some repeatable structure to it.
 
 I plan to get back to a more VCVCBCVCC or something similar in the near future. I also like to do this kind of thing. I  played a small gig yesterday last night and this was my unwind.
 
 https://soundcloud.com/starise/days-of-or
 

Nice little piddle-diddle. I do this kind of stuff almost everyday, I just don't post it. I just like doing it to have fun and keep my hand working before the arthritis sets in. HA! I agree with Frank, clean it up a bit and throw in a nice solid lead or two and then maybe write some words and sing along for fun sake.
 
Peace and Blessings, John

sweet my friend

Notnat- Thanks for the comments.Do you think time stretch would work for this?
 
John- I would love to hear some of the stuff you come up with sometime just piddling around. I guess the novelty of playing a runaround hasn't worn off for me yet. I seem to enjoy that kind of thing maybe more than I should. Some of my best ideas come that way. 
 
Waltenstien- Thanks for listening.I listened to some of your material too. It sounds pretty good. I haven't had the chance to comment on any of it yet. I see you mostly like the synthy pad etherial type of thing. No harm in that. So I understand where you're coming from in the comments. I'll share for you why I have tended to get away from some of those earlier tracks. For me it isn't a real challenge to put a few loops together, get them sounding decent and add a human part here and there. I could make those kinds of songs all day. The bigger challenge is in making it mostly from scratch. Granted it can be fun to play with panning and effect automation etc. but not as much fun as playing a real instrument, at least for me. I might need a loop here and there or a drum track sometimes but I try to minimize it. I like to play my own bass if possible too.Hopefully I'll get better at the acoustic stuff as I go along.Thanks for listening.
 
 Twisted6s- Thanks for listening!
 
 Warrenlee- I usually have every intention to write something more but don't seem to get to it. If I get more time I might try and do more with this.I like the Led Zep Idea. Maybe I need a co-writer. The guitar is a nylon string modification of an HD model in the variax guitar. I seem to get better recording results using it than a real acoustic, although my last recording was using my acoustic Martin miked and direct. I worked with those tracks by splitting them and doing a little panning work.

Are they timing slips or is this some esoteric prog time signature
 
This should be developed as suggested.
 
Thanks for sharing.

 I see what you mean. I'm not against any of that. In my case I play keys on a regular basis, so to me playing keys is like...meh. Guitar is a little more challenging. I see the challenge in synths for sure. Complex soundscapes can be very challenging to make sound correct. It's easy to get a muddy sound using synths and if the mix is too dense you loose definition. To my ears a complex synth creation seems to sometimes loose a central focus,unless the creator is good at eq and understanding a synth mix. I tend more toward the less complex mixes in order to bring out one or two elements of a mix.
 
 I think it's all relative. If I had started out years ago on a guitar then I would probably be bored with it instead of my waning interest in keys. Not that I hate keys but I like a challenge. It's all good man. I usually use synths like salt and pepper in a mix, but anything goes and it's all totally up to the creator. I had actually thought about a piano song last night for a brief change.It's all good,and if it's a hobby and it isn't fun why do it?
 
 

 Rikke- Thanks! This was done on a JTV 69. The 59 and the 69 are the same sounds basically. The 89 is more for shredding. Line 6 just came out with some new HD models and I loaded them the other night. IMO they still don't have the acoustic down perfectly but I tweaked mine some to get it sounding more like I wanted. Some of their acoustic models are a little too harsh for me. I would rather play the Martin, but for recording the JTV 69 is tough to beat.
 
Waltenstein-Our talk got me to thinking. I just did this tonight to see if I could pull off a loop mix in an hour. It was all mostly arranging. I didn't quite make it in an hour but I was close. It was fun but not usually my cuppa. It might need a thing here and there but I think I got it close.The nice thing about this kind of a mix is it's no problem to remove a loop if it doesn't fit, just doesn't feel like making music to me. It does take some arranging skill though. It's a thing that never existed before tonight even though the elements were already around. It'll be funny if I actually get hits on this from soundcloud listeners lol. I made up a super hero called Zous and made this his theme song. https://soundcloud.com/starise/zous

Thanks Waltenstein. I agree the guitars are a l bit varied.This is electronic/dance.We are allowed to do things like that in this genre right lol? Maybe for the two hour version I'll pull those out and change it up some;)

I actually got some hits and a few DJs picked this up...almost scary. Maybe I'll play with it some more. I look at this similar to if a band came into your studio and you made takes of their parts,then after they left you chopped up their material and arranged it into a structure of your own making. In that regard the question is to what degree is arranging art.Probably too deep to get into here. In Sonar we have the matrix view to do exactly that.It can be a lot of fun to make your own loops too.In that context the "loops" are merely smaller recorded versions of your own material.