I t's something of my goal to try to create at least one recording per day. Or at least on average, but I need to keep myself on a short leash or I'll let months go by without realizing it. (Why is this so hard to notice when you're doing it?)

The rule is: anything. Scream into a tape recorder, done. Make a 24-track masterpiece, whatever.

Part of it is to encourage recording fluency, where recording becomes so natural I don't give it any thought. Like how programming is for me now. Another part is learning about the tooling, and then lastly, actually exploring the space of possible recordings.

Last night I was going to produce a 3-track piece using GarageBand, and started out with this fun drum track. But then I couldn't get happy with my overlays. But at least I got something in.

It's a drum track of the built-in Taiko drum set, using GB's sequencer. Taiko drums are very satisfying in their deep resonant sounds, also not feeling like drums in most radio music. I'm constantly changing the rhythm as it goes along, but the sequencer is incredibly basic, only letting me add items on the beat, and the beat is very simple:

Apologies to anyone who knows how such drums should be used, of course.* When I create such uniform beat tracks, I usually like to mess with whatever goes on top to make the whole thing sound more organic.

* — Note: I will rarely ever use instruments how they are supposed to be used. I look for any opportunity to steal sounds from anywhere, though I will never try to steal from other composers in an underhanded way. Likewise, I exhibit what I'm doing here with the same request from others: don't claim stuff done here as your own. Most of it will be garbage anyway.