this is a short section from the song i'm working on. the idea is to put it on repeat and listen to it for hours. i throw these sorts of loops up periodically, but i haven't included any in any releases. i'm going to start doing it...
there's a pizzicato bass line for the piece that i may or may not add to the loop. i'm expecting not to.
but, i just love the way the syncopated cowboy ramones drums interact with the slightly metallic psychedelic grunge riff and the soaring gazey guitar tremolo. the thing that makes the loop, though, is that carefully placed minor seventh chord.
i can listen to this for hours. maybe you might, too.
http://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/angular-momentum
i compose/record by ear and work out the details after the fact (mostly for soloing), but i think the reason the minor seventh works so well is the microtonal tuning. all of the guitars are purposefully slightly "out of tune", with the b and g strings down an eighth tone and the low e string down a quarter tone. that removes the song from the boundaries of western theory. while there's a prominent accidental on the b-flat (tuned down a quartertone), it's otherwise basically in g (but centered around it's relative minor, e, tuned down a quartertone).
the minor seventh strums through all the microtones and ends on the high e, which is correctly in tune and sort of rings out of the piece. so, it brings your ear to it - it's tonal clarity in a sea of harmonic confusion.
loop isolated on aug 7, 2014.