We thought it was a funny thing to say so I decided it should go in a song. The “Bugs, we are bugs bugs is what we are!” came out randomly in a conversation with my little brothers. Venus’ “rhythm” has a 10 beat period with various permutations of a 2, 4, 3 pattern (its rotational period is ~243 Earth days) on the kick drum punctuated by a china hit. The repeating 3-note pattern on the hi-hat lasts two 8th notes, since Mercury’s orbital period is roughly 1/4 that of Earth. The snare hits twice every other time to approximately represent Mars, whose year is almost two Earth years long. Earth’s orbit is represented by the snare pattern repeating every 8 8th notes (8/8 = 1). The rhythmic patterns here are loosely based on various orbital and rotational periods of planets in our solar system. It’s sort of fun to switch between keeping track of the hats versus the guitar riff. This was an artifact of programming the scratch drums as a matter of fact. Most of this part turned out to be in some 11 time with the hi-hat playing 3. Amazingly, Travis pulled his part off flawlessly in the studio (strictly as he had charted no less), which is extra impressive since there’s really no recurring pattern… it’s irrational! The 11 Blooz (1:34-2:00) This choice makes some sense since e is a part of exponential growth functions, which are relevant to the lyrics. The time intervals between each guitar note accent are picked from the first 20 digits of the number e. Somewhat interesting partz The Int-Bro (0:00-0:28) “filled in” by Travis down to the very last note. Smaller timescale/finer-detailed events were Note: The explanations below are for the “top level” conceptual design Numerically-driven parts, which may either come off as interesting or contrived,īut hey, it’s better than random noise, right? It’s got a mildly lame story line to it and some It also happens to be my first tune with Travis “Bugz” is somewhat of a ripoff/combination of Mr.
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