The X Experience

 

Wrote a different kind of song over the last day and a bit, and made this animated short. 

My Harley Benton R-458MN didn't have the intonation right on the 8th string, and I set out to fix that. It was really only okay up to about the 3rd fret with my half step down tuning, as the saddle couldn't be moved back far enough.

I had to change to a much shorter screw (cut and filed a 15mm M3 to 11mm) and removed the spring in the bridge on the lowest string, and use a shorter 15mm M3 screw on the 7th, too. Moved the saddle all the way back on the 8th. So now with the half step down tune intonation can be set correctly. Screws need to be shorter too, so they don't hit the string going over the saddle on both 7th & 8th with the saddles moved back.  To replace these saddle screws, you have to remove the rear screw attaching the bridge part to the guitar body.

I have it tuned (H>L) D# A# F# C# G# D# A# F. Why? I prefer the tone and the string tension with 9s with the half step down tune.

So this music started just checking out the newly improved intonation. I was also playing with the volume pedal and palm muting, so that on the neck pick up, you go from a very bass like tone (what you here at the start with just the drums) to a metal guitar tone. 

This change in distortion and tone in the piece was the new thing in this Lydian 140BPM piece.

I hadn't added lyrics to anything recently, and after watching the Beato Rick Rubens interview, thought something rap like ( BEASTY BOYS, RUN DMC)  isn't something I had tried.  And the experience on X has deteriorated greatly since RWNJ Musk took over, with the zillions of porn bots morphing into extreme US political mode.  So it didn't take any effort to come up with a few words for this. And maybe it isn't really rap, but that is okay, spoken word works for me.

I just used this lapel mic I have on the desk for FB Messenger calls.  Not one of the mics I have for singing.

The longer 2 minute WHY POST THAT? is on Bandcamp.  Pay whatever you want, including $0.

It isn't a traditional song format, as why would I care about that? Sections A, B, C, D, B.

Have also done the full YouTube video now in 1080p:

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