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This is a Joke. Kind of. But not really... 

It is also a Musical Comic in a format I haven't seen anyone else do before. 

After learning about and trying my own MELODIC TECHNO a few months ago, been trying to combine the drums, bass and synths from that with heavy down tuned metal guitar, a 7 String in Drop D#.  

Got the 7 String after trying 6 string down tuned for a while a couple of years ago, and discovered it doesn't give you anything you can't get with a 6.  But palm muted D# power chords on the 7 don't have as tight a sound as the 6. Have been thinking that a fan fret 8 string would be more useful than the 7 string, but the tone of the lower stings would probably be worse.  Have been trying different cabinet IRs and Metal Distortion sounds.  

Still haven't found what I am looking for.

This has those lower 2 string muted one finger power chords as that riff on the 7 string.  Listening to this makes me think I couldn't really do anything with an 8 String better than this.

Still considering it all, but, even as a joke, I think this DOOM TRANCE with guitar and synths is interesting. It reminds me a bit of Rammstein, where there is the massive guitar riffs and simple naïve synth sounds on top. A bit like Ministry as well, or maybe NINE INCH NAILS, but this isn't Industrial. This was made only 60 seconds due to the X video limit of my not a blue tick account for the comic idea.

I have tried a few comics as video files recently, but they all suffer from the text balloon timing being wrong, too long, to suit the music track. Panel boarders are also important to indicate passing time, and I've tried a sliding in panel idea to indicate that here.

Bach's two part inventions. Brilliant, but do you know of anyone other than Bach that did two part inventions?

Edit: 2024/5/8

We re-recorded the track and made it 3minutes

The drum sounds and patterns and bass sound are from the previous EDM Bob track. Melodic guitar is a Ibanez RG 6 string, lower register riffs 7 string. 

It really needs to be 5 minutes or so. I would do that by adding a new section, changing key, and maybe a variation on the low riffs, and more shred-ish guitar lead. 2 handed tapping maybe..

The default behavior of Reaper has changed with the V7 lanes stuff. I want to click on a recorded wave to split or adjust something, and it makes the envelope visible instead, the first click.  I guess they are trying to make the envelopes more useable.  I should read the latest manual...

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