That E Thing

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Genre: Other

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This is based on an Em guitar pattern that I've been messing around with for a number of years. It has a certain unresolved quality to it that I seem to gravitate towards at times. On this recording I'm playing acoustic guitar - electric bass and pencil edited some piano and horn samples. I also used Spectral Dronemaker to create the drone that comes and goes. The drums are Apple loops.
If there were a genre for this - it might be Peculiar - as it is I chose Other.

Artwork - Among the Folds of My Eagerness / A Fixed Intention,1997 by Lisa Beck

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Hits: 1865
Comments: 67
Fans: 33
Plays: 178
Downloads: 75

Uploaded: Mar 21, 2010 - 04:52:06 PM
Last Updated: Mar 22, 2010 - 01:21:37 PM Last Played: May 18, 2013 - 01:26:34 PM

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Keywords:

Peculiar (2), Em (4)

Hardware:

MacBook, Martin D18, Ibanez bass

Software:

GB'08

Comments

	said 1156 days ago (March 21st, 2010)
	gotta love E my favorite chord . - Harold

bud	bud said 1156 days ago (March 21st, 2010)
	Is there another one? Thanks Harold Check out my latest song called ditto

michaeljayklein

michaeljayklein said 1156 days ago (March 21st, 2010)

Nice!!!!!!!!
I'm a sucker for anything in the minor key and their dark, melancholic moods. Excellent, ethereal motif and I thought your choice of visual for this post signified what was to come uncannily! Really excellent track and remind me to buy you a pizza lunch for downloading this next time you are in Minneapolis Bud. Take care and thanks for the great work! Michael

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bud	bud said 1156 days ago (March 21st, 2010)
	I love pizza - thanks. The artwork is by my wife. Our work tends to reflect each other after 30 years of hanging out together. Thanks for dropping by. Check out my latest song called ditto

PaulaMunk	PaulaMunk said 1156 days ago (March 21st, 2010)
	Slow hand guitar. Did you play while lying down? I think it is jazz. It moves, but slowly. Who's in a hurry, anyway? Love it. :) Check out my latest song called Alone at Christmas

bud	bud said 1156 days ago (March 21st, 2010)
	I tried really hard to get a suspension hanging where the tension of the dissonance is diffused by the slack rhythm. Unease without nervousness - if that makes sense. No Hurry here. However - whatever I do next will likely pulse and pound. Check out my latest song called ditto

Lennon714	Lennon714 said 1156 days ago (March 21st, 2010)
	Dig it The horns are a really surprising, but fitting, addition. Brave choice. Chillaxed and extremely listenable. Check out my latest song called Broke

bud	bud said 1156 days ago (March 21st, 2010)
	This was a weird one to work on no really strong idea leapt out - so I played with colors and voices. Glad you liked it. Check out my latest song called ditto

particledots	particledots said 1156 days ago (March 21st, 2010)
	Quite brilliant Love the queasy, off kilter, bobbing on the ocean and almost submerging but never going under feel Peculiar, other....its all good to me Love the art work too! Check out my latest song called i got a new lens

bud	bud said 1156 days ago (March 22nd, 2010)
	Thanks Bryn - I play that weird chord whenever I don't know what else to do - which is often. I'll give your regards to Lisa re the artwork. She's doing a wall drawing now for a show that opens on Thursday. Check out my latest song called ditto

scofugate	scofugate said 1156 days ago (March 21st, 2010)
	Off the Wall cool!! Oh yea...Love E Great work on this!!!! Peculiar Jazz = genre Check out my latest song called Prelude and Jam W/Ibstrat

bud	bud said 1156 days ago (March 22nd, 2010)
	All this talk of E people might get the wrong idea. Thanks for dropping by. Check out my latest song called ditto

Vic Holman	Vic Holman said 1156 days ago (March 21st, 2010)
	i think....... i hear 2 chords. Em & Esus#13 with a flattened 19th. pretty cool Kevin. the acoustic grooves along and the jazzier (avant garde) piano lines are pretty cool in that they work within the framework Check out my latest song called Darkest Skies

bud	bud said 1156 days ago (March 22nd, 2010)
	Good ears I call it Em dissed with diminished expectations. Actually it's an open E something 1st/open - 2nd/7th - 3rd/8th - 4th/9th - 5th/open - 6th/open Any idea what it is? Check out my latest song called ditto

Vic Holman	Vic Holman said 1153 days ago (March 24th, 2010)
	a whacky chord E/C7b5 that's about as close as anyones gonna get. Check out my latest song called Darkest Skies

magnatone	magnatone said 1156 days ago (March 21st, 2010)
	That E Thing oh man Bud - this is way way way too cool. if i think of something articulate to say, i'll come back! I love this! Check out my latest song called Blind Love (Seeing Heart) - Orchestral Version

bud	bud said 1156 days ago (March 22nd, 2010)
	Thanks Karen glad you like it. Check out my latest song called ditto

DarkPlanet	DarkPlanet said 1156 days ago (March 21st, 2010)
	E space I like the room you have created here, nice sounds... Oh yeah easy and loose! diggin this! Check out my latest song called Summer Glaze (With cchaplin)

bud	bud said 1156 days ago (March 22nd, 2010)
	Maybe this will be out of my system for a while now thanks for the nice comments. Check out my latest song called ditto

spitlogic	spitlogic said 1156 days ago (March 21st, 2010)
	Really diggin it Loving that bassline. Cool stuff. Check out my latest song called Measures

bud	bud said 1156 days ago (March 22nd, 2010)
	Thanks Mitch you know a thing or two about basslines. Check out my latest song called ditto

kingbee

kingbee said 1156 days ago (March 22nd, 2010)

everything starts with an E
It's odd. I was just thinking last night about a new MJ challenge where everyone writes a song that starts with E.
You've just got the ball rolling!
Great use of sounds, textures and drones.
I felt the snare rolls at the end of the bar should have been a bit 'bigger' or a different snare sound and maybe 'tightened' up a bit but apart from that a cool track
cheers

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bud	bud said 1155 days ago (March 22nd, 2010)
	I eq's the drums a little duller than they were - less top end and crack to the snare. They were very present before - as fr the timing - don't know how I might have changed that with these loops. Thanks for the comment and giving it thought. Let's do the E challenge. Check out my latest song called ditto

tempie

tempie said 1156 days ago (March 22nd, 2010)

colors and voices
everybody's got that little thing they play as soon as they pick up the guitar. reminds me of zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance, how pirsig tries to take apart the process of selection that occurs when you walk down a street filled with sound but only hear certain things - why do you sub consciously make the decision to pay attention to those certain things? you kind of do the same thing here with that little pattern you for whatever reason always bring to the guitar. very cool concept dude.

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bud	bud said 1155 days ago (March 22nd, 2010)
	Yeah - I lke the way the dissonant resolves to consonant very simple - but I'm easily amused. Check out my latest song called ditto

Daugrin	Daugrin said 1156 days ago (March 22nd, 2010)
	Have A Moment Thanks for sharing your mantra with us Bud. Daug Check out my latest song called Ride Yer Bike

bud	bud said 1155 days ago (March 22nd, 2010)
	Any time Daug thanks for dropping by. You must have sniffed out the whole tone pianos. Check out my latest song called ditto

Daugrin	Daugrin said 1155 days ago (March 22nd, 2010)
	Yes the Daug's trademark Sounds great Bud. It is comforting to hear the things you love in the music of others, the cool stuff, especially whole tone dissonance, catches my ear, lol. Daug Check out my latest song called Ride Yer Bike

egobandit	egobandit said 1156 days ago (March 22nd, 2010)
	Allot of suspence I wonder what it would sound like with vocals, the piano really drive this along, nice and relaxed I enjoyed! Check out my latest song called walkin out my door

bud	bud said 1155 days ago (March 22nd, 2010)
	The sequence is loosely based on a Grateful Dead song - The Victim or the Crime. Check it out for a vocal version. Check out my latest song called ditto

Hickling_Stan	Hickling_Stan said 1156 days ago (March 22nd, 2010)
	Queezy, Cheezy, Pleezy Strange feeling coming from this one. Engaging but somehow a little sinister! Good listen though. Cheers.Mark Check out my latest song called Elective Introspective

bud	bud said 1155 days ago (March 22nd, 2010)
	Hang in there it'll pass. Check out my latest song called ditto

kassia

kassia said 1156 days ago (March 22nd, 2010)

bud
i'm all about minor these days, and while I tend to prefer Eb to E, I can still think this is as lovely as the art work representing it. I really love the bass in this - an understated soft support holding it all together. I swear that picture is shifting before my very eyes as I listen to this for the second time. Great effecty thingies on the pencilled in parts. I don't think this is Peculiar at all, or maybe it is in a wonderfully "through the looking glass off with their heads" sort of way. I LOVE it! downloaded thanks.

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bud	bud said 1155 days ago (March 22nd, 2010)
	Shay - you are much too generous thanks for the kind words. The art is an installation by my wife. Think I'm strange - spend some time in her studio. Check out my latest song called ditto

awigze	awigze said 1156 days ago (March 22nd, 2010)
	Bud We decided that 'Bud' was a genre. Didnt I hear this coming from the AC duct in the Denver Airport...? Check out my latest song called Dark Waters w/scofugate, ktb, Pickquickrecords, Ren-Tin-10

bud	bud said 1155 days ago (March 22nd, 2010)
	Next they'll have Miller and Coors as genres then where will we be? Beer Friday I guess. Thanks for dropping by Andy. Check out my latest song called ditto

Symphony101	Symphony101 said 1155 days ago (March 22nd, 2010)
	the song is over .... but I am still hearing the bass line, it's been really nice listening, I like it very much Check out my latest song called Lonely Generation

bud	bud said 1155 days ago (March 22nd, 2010)
	Thanks a lot now I'm not the only one with this sound stuck in my head. Check out my latest song called ditto

Ed Hannifin

Ed Hannifin said 1155 days ago (March 22nd, 2010)

I listened to this twice....
...before bed last night.... I thought I'd just check it out quickly, but then I got drawn in....

I really love it...

I have to say that Em may be my favorite key. I really like the acoustic guitar bits, and the sort of off-kilter drum track and the piano really make it for me...

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bud	bud said 1155 days ago (March 23rd, 2010)
	Thanks Ed Wasn't sure I'd ever get this thing to work to be honest. Check out my latest song called ditto

ste	ste said 1155 days ago (March 22nd, 2010)
	good listen. like the instrumentation. enjoyed Check out my latest song called friday

bud	bud said 1155 days ago (March 23rd, 2010)
	Much appreciated thanks for stopping by. Check out my latest song called ditto

racerat	racerat said 1155 days ago (March 22nd, 2010)
	the long fade This has to have the longest fade I've heard in a while 45 seconds! Leaves you hanging in an odd way. Em is a fav of mine as well. Wanna put a onerous tone on any just a bit too happy-go-lucky pop number? Just throw in an EM and all is wrong with the world again. makes my day. A wonderful meandering pastoral passage. Ciao P Check out my latest song called My Broken Sky

bud	bud said 1155 days ago (March 23rd, 2010)
	Em in a happy song - yup - that's cool I also like the way Elliott Smith used to write really cheery songs with depressing lyrics. Check out my latest song called ditto

Jarvoid	Jarvoid said 1155 days ago (March 23rd, 2010)
	E ba gum, Yorkshire take on the whole thing...slightly surreal with a hint of melancholy but nicely held together and I love the tick tock clocky sound and vibe to it...Almost Hitchcockian...if you get my drift,very nice Bud. Cheers, Jarvoid Check out my latest song called Cripple Creek Revised........By Jarvoid and the Banjo Bedraggled Manic Mandolin Accordion Squeezers

bud	bud said 1155 days ago (March 23rd, 2010)
	Hadn't thought about the Hitch thing till you mentioned it - but there is a bit of Bernard Herrman working here I guess. Thanks for the comments. Check out my latest song called ditto

mikkinylund	mikkinylund said 1155 days ago (March 23rd, 2010)
	Different Very disharmonic, progressive patterns, very cool guitar performance, as well as well crafted piano riffs and melodies. Have hints of blues, but adds so may other levels into it, classic, jazz'esque, indie... Great concept, very poetic. Love the song art. Check out my latest song called Delirium Poema II

bud	bud said 1155 days ago (March 23rd, 2010)
	Thanks Miki - you create some of the most unique sounds coming out of this place - so I really appreciate the support. The artwork is my wife's thing. Check out my latest song called ditto

dave_b	dave_b said 1155 days ago (March 23rd, 2010)
	That E Thing Very cool stuff. I like your chord, I looked it up on Chord Finder (http://www.all-guitar-chords.com/chord_name.php), and it didn't come back with anything Check out my latest song called Llarions Blues

bud	bud said 1155 days ago (March 23rd, 2010)
	I tried to find it too - no luck It's basically an open Em with a flatted B - that then resolves to B natural. Check out my latest song called ditto

DWL	DWL said 1155 days ago (March 23rd, 2010)
	Peculiar indeed but keeps the interest Cheers Dick Check out my latest song called Not For The Likes of You

bud	bud said 1155 days ago (March 23rd, 2010)
	Interest? I want dividends! Thanks Dick. Check out my latest song called ditto

rac927	rac927 said 1155 days ago (March 23rd, 2010)
	COOL With so many of us guitarist Dropping our E's to D's, Im glad you kept it at E....Definately can hear that Martin tone in the D-18. i love the feeling of "Air-iness" to this, kinda leaves room for imagination as the notes fly by. I hope you understand what Im saying! Great job! Andy Check out my latest song called Still Around

bud	bud said 1155 days ago (March 23rd, 2010)
	Thanks for hearing the D18 it like the attention and doesn't get enough from me. Very jealous of the electrics. Check out my latest song called ditto

lavalamp	lavalamp said 1155 days ago (March 23rd, 2010)
	Smooth Brilliant sound. Very smooth vibe. Something eerie about it. Could need vocals in my opinion. LL Check out my latest song called A Funky Little Thing

bud	bud said 1155 days ago (March 23rd, 2010)
	Thanks Dave feel like singing? Check out my latest song called ditto

lavalamp	lavalamp said 1154 days ago (March 24th, 2010)
	Ha They called me a Jim Morrison wannabe the last time I tackled one of your tunes. lol LL Check out my latest song called A Funky Little Thing

richard13	richard13 said 1154 days ago (March 23rd, 2010)
	Peculiar? Maybe, but still of interest. Actually, it reminds me a little of the tune "Wonderwall" (I think) for some reason. Nice. Downloaded, thanks. Check out my latest song called Caledonia

davisamerica	davisamerica said 1154 days ago (March 23rd, 2010)
	E is good Em is just amazing.... kevin this is just right for my time and place.... thanks for the download...cos... i did. Check out my latest song called 12

Relic67	Relic67 said 1154 days ago (March 23rd, 2010)
	nice I like that freaky chord! nice spacious feel. kind of meditative and relaxing even though the chord is dissonant. If you stretched it out, it would be cool as a 20 minute side B on a vinyl lp. enjoyed! Check out my latest song called Someone Else's Thing

SISTERS	SISTERS said 1154 days ago (March 24th, 2010)
	way to go, kevin i like the way this starts to TILT at :27. the crazy back n forthness at 1:34 is GREAT. the tension is terrific, and the resolves are lovely. edgy, quirky, and really beautiful. cool piece! anne Check out my latest song called UNIVERSAL SONG w Astronomusic & 24 Soloists

Ibstrat	Ibstrat said 1154 days ago (March 24th, 2010)
	I really enjoyed listening to this.You have an incredible ability to put a bunch of musical ideas together to make a very interesting piece. Check out my latest song called I Could Write a Book

fasteddie	fasteddie said 1152 days ago (March 25th, 2010)
	Peculiar Em Em is my natural starting place for most of my songs. I'm not sure what a Spectral Dronemaker is but it sure makes some cool sounds. Good stuff Bud. Check out my latest song called A Friend to the End

falcef	falcef said 1151 days ago (March 26th, 2010)
	That E Thing Salve hello from Italy. Good music good many compliments to the choice of musical instruments used in this song good. Rate and download my songs hello. Check out my latest song called Live-Jam-in-Brentonec-01

Calchas	Calchas said 1151 days ago (March 27th, 2010)
	Holy crap Kevin! What a wonderful chord progression. LOVE that spooky bass line, and all those keyboard effects. Very cool stuff. Be well friend!

Macaudion	Macaudion said 1151 days ago (March 27th, 2010)
	My sweet wallowing drips of goodness... you sang to me that time, Bud! there was a dance of chills in places we don't normally end up making speak about... it needed nothing but my begging ears... Deeply digging it! Thanks for the traveler, too! Check out my latest song called Pavel

Bob6stringer

Bob6stringer said 1137 days ago (April 10th, 2010)

Quite peculiar indeedy.
I was just practicing on some Em fingerstyle acoustic blues. I'm not much of a finger-er. But this gambit of yours resonates. For some reason those open chord creations like you've got at the 0:28-sec. mark take me back to Zep III (side 2). On the song art: those floating.. um -- what do you call 'em -- "particledots" ... suit the mood well.

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