Medley (XIII), Riff of the Day #3

Ciao,

Today is a bit of an experiment in that I have been editing moving images when I normal put a couple of pictures together and be done with it. I was furiously trying to get my Easycap to work to record some game play just for the sake of curiosity. An Easycap if you don’t know is a capture card device which enables me to record my Xbox game play onto my computer. So once I realised I could only record in 50 pal and therefore most of my 360 games wouldn’t run on that setting I searched for my favourite Xbox game. XIII! Or thirteen if you can’t do roman numerals... I believe it’s a comic book adaptation and you play as an amnesiac who begins to unearth a conspiracy. It’s very good.

Anyway, I used footage from the introduction of this game as the video for my new Riff of the Day challenge (etc). The riff itself is aptly named Medley because it is comprised of four parts. I made it as a bit of a joke. It’s just a simple, largely improvised, on the spot thing that is edited quite crudely edited but I thought it was quite fun so I would upload it. 

  

Well I won’t ramble, here is the new riff of the day, Medley:

Thank you!

Riff of the Day #1: Scene Panick

Hello again,

This week I have set myself a personal challenge, a challenge that no man has faced and come out of alive. Basically I am going to upload a riff or instrumental piece of music everyday for the next week. I thought it would be fun and, well, challenging. So now that the challenge has been set and the first ‘riff’ has been put onto Youtube I suppose I had better start writing a new one.

There isn’t really a lot to say about this piece. I was messing around with scales and trying to develop something to practice my fingering because my hands were all slow due to only playing chords.  So here we have it the product of practice strangely enough.

There were the usual technical problems with making this. I finished the bass part and therefore finished the whole song when suddenly the software crashed losing all I had recorded that didn’t have mistakes in it. I almost gave up on the idea of this extreme challenge altogether after that. Eventually however I redid it and went to upload it. That took me about five times.... Bad day!

Without further ado and such, here is the ‘riff’. I hope you like it and tomorrow there will be a new one with different noises in it:

See you tomorrow!