Wednesday 21, Day 2: Scoring. Total hours spent today: 9.5. Cumulative total hours: 16.5 out of 120 (100 required).
Tuesday night, I killed the website due to bad php parsing. Dad fixed it. There were also browser compatibility problems, but it should be good now, for mobile and desktop alike. Wednesday troubleshooting: 9am-11am.
From 12 to 5:30 I set up MuseScore documents for the seven songs and worked out an intro/verse to Dyschronometria. It’s pretty sick. There’s a bass riff that came to me when Alex was over Tuesday, some djent-ish guitar and airy keys over it, and an alarm-clock-like ukulele that repeats faster and faster (for the curious, it’s a few bars of 7/8 – 7/8 – 7/8 – 7/8 – 7/8 – 10/8 – 7/8 – 7/8, and the last repetition swaps a 12/8 out for the final 7/8). It evolves into a brief yet complex bridge, “Dance of Eternity”-esque in rhythm but not in mode or time signature (6/4 – 5/4 – 6/4 – 5/4 – 5/4 – 5/4 – 6/4 – 6/4). Verses are in 6/4. The main thing was getting the intro riff to flow naturally from E to D, which is what the first part of the middle section begins in. Said middle section goes back to E at some point. It was really fortunate that both the intro and the middle bit both were set at 180bpm. Hell lining up if they weren’t.
SHHS Awards night went from 7pm-9pm. Don’t tell anybody, but I worked on lyrics in my seat, hidden behind a wall of students’ bodies.
I’ve also begun compiling lyrics and video clips in one place for quick reference. Thursday will be more of that, plus rehearsal for SHHS Theatre Awards from 4 to the end of the show, which is probably 9 again. Alex and I are guesting as musicians, so that counts as practice for senior project, so I can count the hours.