Anomaly Recording Trivia
June 3, 2019
Each album that we do, we produce a series of short blurbs and articles sharing the details on how we recorded and produced the album. The idea is to share some of the behind the scenes stuff, some of the nerdier parts of our music and how it was made and what we did. Some of you might like this and garner something from it for yourself; or you might be just into the hows and whys of music.
So without further ado, here we go!
Most of the musical basis for the Anomaly guitar part and main melodic structure were written without an instrument. All the guitar parts were written using a music writing program called Power Tab. Brendan wrote the parts into the program using a random selection of notes that adhered to a preset of rules and conditions. The idea was to create a song without using an instrument to bias the creative process and creative thought and to see what would come out without trying to jam out a song the old fashioned way.
The song itself is very odd meter heavy. Lots of time signature changes through out and contains very little four four (4/4) time signatures. This was one of the limitations in the writing; to keep the standard time signatures like 4/4 to a minimum and keep the music interesting without sounding too disjointed.
As you can see above, the guitar part for the intro is quite over the top with time signatures. The music written down for Anomaly was only arranged in segments like the figure below. Note that these are just notes and are incomplete in some parts.
Each segment was altered once the band got onto learning how the piece moved and eventually evolved into the final track! Here is a guitar play through video demonstrating the guitar part for Anomaly
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