I Am Frank Zappa
There are occasions when I spend an inordinate amount of time amusing myself by recording music that is completely worthless but is wickedly entertaining…to me at least. This morning was one of those occasions.
I was lying in bed and had an idea. I wondered what it would sound like if I recorded a drum solo and then took the MIDI information in that solo and transferred it to a different instrument such as piano. So I tried it and the results were pretty interesting.
I took the drum notes and kind of split them up between three pianos, two electric pianos, and one bass. This took a few hours but it proved to be a rip roarin’ good time.
I took some of the highlights from this eight minute monstrosity and (poorly) edited them together into one mp3 that is a little less than two minutes long.
If Frank Zappa had ever written music for a piano band this is what it would have sounded like.
This is my new Waterloo. I want more, more, more! That was awesome and relaxing and really good therapy; good to zone out to…i would like more, please.
Thank you sir. I’m glad you liked it. I didn’t think it would be anything that people would want to listen to more than once.
I had some other ideas I wanted to try that might make the whole thing more melodic but it’s just so time consuming that I didn’t get around to it. I might mess around with this type of thing some more.
I really liked the very short little groove that happened between :09 and :16. I’m probably going to try and turn that into a complete song.